After reaching an agreement, PC gaming titans Blizzard and Valve have agreed to end the dispute amicably. To the point: Blizzard will give up the official use of DOTA and have their upcoming MOBA-style game renamed to Blizzard All-Stars. Meanwhile, Valve, being able to keep the DOTA 2 name, will allow the Blizzard gaming community to use the DOTA term for user-created content and various other non-commercial means:
“Both Blizzard and Valve recognize that, at the end of the day, players just want to be able to play the games they’re looking forward to, so we’re happy to come to an agreement that helps both of us stay focused on that,” said Rob Pardo, executive vice president of game design at Blizzard Entertainment. “As part of this agreement, we’re going to be changing the name of Blizzard DOTA to Blizzard All-Stars, which ultimately better reflects the design of our game. We look forward to going into more detail on that at a later date.”
“We’re pleased that we could come to an agreement with Blizzard without drawing things out in a way that would benefit no one,” said Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of Valve. “We both want to focus on the things our fans care about, creating and shipping great games for our communities.”
Good. No delays from a legal dispute. Not that it’ll help much given Valve and Blizzard’s history with game release scheduling.
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Blizzard All-Stars is a horrible name.
Yeah, I am not a fan of that either. Blizz really dropped the ball on this one while Valve has proved that it still has an eye out for the modding community even if its from a game they didn’t even make.
Not like Blizzard made it either lol
Blizzard never had a trademark though did they, it all started when Valve filed a trademark.
It was a pretty dirty move by them really.
Well yeah, but it was their game that was modded. My point was that they missed an opportunity and Valve jumped on it.
The guy who made the mod is working at valve. How is it dirty? And how does Blizzard get to complain anyway? The only ones who could complain would be RIOT and they didn’t even bother with the DOTA name anyhow.
Icefrog did not make DOTA, he is the one who took over development of DOTA.
Well they do have some right to be upset, but yeah overall it’s their own fault for not taking the initiative.
Hmmm I got it the wrong way around. I remembered Guinsoo being the one who took over from icefrog. My bad.