Of course, DOTA is no ordinary nonsense phrase. It's the common acronym for Defense of the Ancients, the hugely popular Warcraft III mod that is still being developed and played and populated by mean Internet scumbags eight years later. Between this trademark and the fact that IceFrog, the anonymous developer who has been managing and developing the original DOTA mod for the past five years, was hired by Valve to work on a new project... yeah. Valve is probably making its own clone of Defense of the Ancients with the involvement of one of the modification's developers.
Gordon sitter här i venten och spelar lite DotA.
Perhaps the most shocking takeaway from this story is the implication that Valve's game could just be called DOTA. The idea of taking the widely known acronym of a game and using it as a title for a different game that happens to be in the same genre as the original game is bananas. It would be like if I announced that I was making a video game called KOTOR, a science fiction RPG which happens to be about a space knight with a laser sword. It's egregious, is what it is!
Rather, it could be egregious. We don't really know anything about what this game is, or if it's even a game at all. There's a possibility that this DOTA trademark has nothing to do with anything related to Defense of the Ancients.
It could be Half-Life 3. Maybe. But it's probably DotA-ass DOTA.
but.. ep3...
SHUTUP, NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR NEEDS!
Thats what Valve is saying to us, I want it too. But a fantasy game from Valve seems sorta crazy. But it makes sense, 3rd person cameras from Alien Swarm, that tweet by that DOTA dude about Dota and how Valve is awesome and now this. I think we know whats happening.
WHAT. AWESOME.
Well, not anything solid, but the idea is definitely still:
"WHAT. AWESOME."
Oh, you mean Monday Night Combat?
Kidding.
im callin it
Devour
Other
Things
Always
now how many months does that make?
I'll tell you something bodega, that is the most egregious use of a word I've ever read on a video game website.
Moving on from the ambiguity of the english language onto the actual subject matter of the post - has anyone considered that this might just be valve trolling with us? You know how valve likes to mess with us. Sneaking a spy in the background of the sniper update, removing it as soon as anyone notice and then, well... the rest is history. And numerous references to the pyro being various different genders. Maybe this is just the beginning of another epic valve office joke.
Maybe not as crazy as you'd think. Prior to the release of Half-Life 1, Valve had been working on two properties: Half-Life itself, and a fantasy RPG of some sort that was left on the cutting-room floor after things got rolling for them. I'm kinda interested in finding out if that's going to have any influence on this.