Valve Snaps Up Defense of the Ancients Dev
By Michael McWhertor, 1:40 PM on Mon Oct 5 2009

Valve has made a hire that should perk up the ears of the Warcraft III mod community, as "IceFrog," the current developer of ultra popular Defense of the Ancients Allstars, has found gainful employment at the house of Half-Life.

The announcement was made via the DotA forums, with IceFrog writing that he is "now leading a team at Valve" and "finally have all the resources needed to do some very exciting stuff that you guys will love." And by "you guys," we're guessing that means Defense of the Ancients Allstars players. Which would hopefully mean continued development of the mod.

What exactly the DotA dev will be doing at Valve, we don't yet know. But we did confirm that hire with Valve who was regrettably unable to offer any further details into the addition to the team.

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omg another game base on dota idea >.<? no pls we got too many now

You know what, I'll be interested to have a look at whatever this is. The main issue I have with all these DoTA games was the extremely limited control. I always felt like there was a lack of strategy involved in them. I know this isn't the point of them. But I never felt the appeal of levelling a single character. Moving around, rinse and repeat.

WHat is interesting is that most of these DoTA games are positioned as a strategy game/RTS in which most in the genre involve controlling a large army(you become an armchair general not a single hero). But in the FPS genre, you are always only controlling a single character anyway(the exceptions are a few tactical games). In an FPS game, I wont have the expectation of having battlefield control like a typical strategy game.

I think this could mean less of the mental block I have for this particular genre.

i dun mind dota in FPS mode lol

switching btwn FPS + 3rd person + RTS mode shld be fun
its juz like WOW + CSS + DOTA

If that was the case, Valve should've hired the Natural Selection team instead.

I personally think its going to be something pretty radical.

If that was the case, Valve should've hired the Natural Selection team instead.

I personally think its going to be something pretty radical.

hired ppl who make dota doesnt mean must make a dota game u know.
valve hired CS team long time ago, do we see any CS clone game? no?