Dota = Warcraft = Blizzard. If you say DOTA2 the first thought in my mind would be the new Blizzard DOTA game, not Valve's. Valve should fuck off and make Half Life 3.
To me Dota does not = Warcraft since I never played those games. I didn't even know of the existence of DOTA before I heard it being mentioned on the Bombcast. Truth is that in the end it doesn't matter what we associate with who. The only thing that matters is what the law and the judge say about it. As far as I know DOTA isn't explicitly trademarked by Blizzard or Activision so it won't be easy to make their case. Personally I would say that don't have a case since they never trademarked it, similar to how Apple, in my eyes, has no case against Amazon for using the words "App Store".
Admittedly, though, I am neither lawyer nor judge, and it's always very hard to predict what the ruling will be. Even if a judge in a prior, similar, case ruled one way, another judge can rule completely differently in this case. Something that, to me, has never made much sense.
This series is fucked. The first one was an incredible game, one of my favourites, but good god it went downhill quick.
You should all go play Alpha Protocol, very ME1-like and pretty damn awesome.
I couldn't disagree more with that second statement. I've played ME1 multiple times and loved it each time. Alpha Protocol, on the other hand, I've tried playing twice, and each time I got immensely frustrated with its piss-poor controls. Dude is supposed to be some elite operative that was especially selected for an even more elite team and yet it felt like I was watching a toddler who'd just learned to take its first steps.
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