Wow. I didn't think Blizzard would be the ones to back down on the name.

Valve is more powerful than I thought.

@TPoppaPuff: I don't really know what you saying but you need get your facts straight. Blizzard All-stars is not a title, its not an IP, its not even a stand-alone game. It is a mod made for free for Starcraft 2 owners. They can name it whatever they want. They don't care how it sounds. It's just something fun for the fans that they are providing for free just like the mods that came before it. I might be off a little but they were called "Aiur Chef", "Star Jeweled", and "Left 2 Die". Get over it.

@soyombo2001: O RLY?

If it's not an IP then I could package the title and sell it to anyone I feel like and use all the characters and assets for my own commercial use, correct? I could jut steal the graphics and use them in my own game and sell it without any repercussions right? If it's not an intellectual property than there is literally nothing they could do.

Now fanboys are arguing it isn't an IP!

lol

you people in the Giantbomb community talk too much.

about 96% of the way through reading this article's title sentence, i thought they were gonna settle this dispute with an actual in-game Dota battle. that would have been cooler.

@Duckbutter said:

you people

@TPoppaPuff said:

Valve gave up practically nothing (except the right not to sue user mods with the name dota? lol good luck with that anyways) and Blizzard gave up everything.

I strongly suspect that when the terms of the actual agreement are released that we will see Valve gave up some decent $$$ to make Activision/Blizzard go away.

I agree with you that Valve has got the better end of the deal longterm, but it's not like Blizzard didn't get what they were really after (a quick payday and the freedom to still release their SCII mod). Whether Blizzard should have gone for more is a fair question.

@Addfwyn said:

Worth pointing out that the guy who Valve hired (Icefrog) did not make dota, he maintained and did some of the updates for dota. The original dota was made by Eul, though that bears little to no resemble to dota allstars which was created by Guinsoo (who works for Riot Games which makes League of Legends). So it's not really as cut and dry as 'maker of dota made dota 2'.

Icefrog's been overseeing DotA All-Stars for the last seven years. Given how much the game has changed (and grown in popularity) under his direction, he is essentially the person responsible for the iteration of Dota which most people are familiar with.

I'd also like to point out that on the point out on the 5-15 bombcast Patrick and Vinny agreed the name is indeed dumb.

So, y'know, winner winner chicken dinner. ;P