Blizzard DotA Discussion

[Alar]

Protoss-Enhanced Tyrael? Zerg-infested Diablo? I would like to see both of those... even if it's only minor armor changes and slight physical differences.

[Terrasqueel]

I wonder if each hero will have their own unique mount. It would give them a reason to put Raynor back on his vulture if he gets included in DotA at some point.

[Sheliek]

Fenix as a zealot, then mount is a dragoon. Noms.

[TheEconomist]

Let poor Fenix rest in peace. The poor kid's been resurrected so many times its a tragedy.

[Arkalis]

Let poor Fenix rest in peace. The poor kid's been resurrected so many times its a tragedy.

Tassadar Ghost

Make it happen

[TheEconomist]

*travels back in time and puts Tassadar's Ghost into SC2 SP*

Viola!

[Asfastasican]

Blizzard DotA is just a fun project for Blizzard to kill time with. Most conspiracy theory guys could even argue that they are just spending a tiny bit of resources to make it, just because of them challenging Valve's trademark on the phrase "Dota." If Blizzard fakes or makes a half-ass attempt at making a true DotA map, it will make them look better when making the challenge claim. Not that any judge would care, but it can help their PR in a subtle way.

Besides that sad PR disaster and Blizzard's complete incompetence in not hiring a team to make the actual DotA game or trademark it, Blizzard has never made any successful custom maps. Their custom maps are just fun pet projects that the devs made to goof off and showcase features of their respective map editors for each game. Even when Blizzard used to make custom default maps people could play Melee on, they never took the maps seriously themselves.

The only truly great Official Blizzard custom map Blizzard has ever released was Skibi's TD, and they didn't even make that map themselves. A married couple did. All Blizzard did was put an official tag on it.

To anybody interested in playing it or spending any time covering it, you're not going to get much of anything. You could even argue it's still just a hollow product that was made just to entertain people at Blizzcon solely for Blizzcon content.

[The_Blade]

I understand why Blizzard or Valve wants the Dota name on their dota-like map, but I don't see why either Blizzard or Valve rightfully deserves said name. DotA originated on Warcraft III, but that's as far as it goes for Blizzard. A friend even made the argument, at Blizzcon, that Blizzard's DoTA should be called something else because it has changed so much from the original concept.