Now DOTA trademark belongs to Valve Corporation.

On blizzard Official website:

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/legal/dota_usage.html

This post has been edited by Panda: Jan 19 2015, 10:27 AM

dota is still the best mmorpg created by blizzard

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. vs. Valve Corporation
Shortly after Valve filed its trademark for "Dota" to secure the franchising rights for Dota 2, DotA-Allstars, LLC, run by former contributors to the games's predecessor, Defense of the Ancients, filed an opposing trademark in August 2010. DotA All-Stars, LLC was sold to Blizzard Entertainment, the developer of DotA's platform Warcraft III and its world editor, in 2011. After the opposition was overruled in Valve's favor, Blizzard itself filed an opposition against Valve in November 2011, citing their license agreement with developers, as well as their ownership of DotA-Allstars, LLC.On May 11, 2012, Blizzard and Valve announced that the dispute had been settled. Valve retained the rights to the term "Dota" commercially, while Blizzard reserved the right for fans to use the trademark non-commercially, and changed the name of their StarCraft II map, Blizzard DOTA, to "Blizzard All-Stars". Blizzard All-Stars was adapted into a stand-alone game and renamed "Heroes of the Storm" on October 17, 2013

hahahahah

now only you know?

so wraithking will become Skeleton king again?

since when blizzard owns dota?

i know blizzard is only good for one this.... their cinematic game ..... other then that just normal....

Damn straight!

Will never happen because Skeleton King is in Diablo's lore, which is under Blizzard

summary = nobody can win against Gaben.......... not even ur wallet...

This post has been edited by Boldnut: Jan 19 2015, 10:39 AM

thank god. dota was a disgusting mod that will ruin blizzard in the long run. look at them now, releasing team deathmatch games that last only 10 minutes instead of a thousand hour, lore-filled IP. imagine if they got the rights to dota, then they will super bangang and only churn out new heroes with 0 character background everyday. Look at valve, churning out crap instead of making a PROPER GAME like they did before they got dota.

Even though its the best FPS by blizzard, it is good that events played out this way.

This post has been edited by GHBZDK: Jan 19 2015, 10:39 AM

all hail lord gaben !

lulz dota belong to icefrog...now valve hire icefrog, automatically belong to valve..everybody knows dat..

FYI, DOTA was a mod created by some W3 player (cant recall his nick) but abandoned his project. So, naturally DOTA should not be owned by Blizzard unless blizzard claimed it before valve.

its unfair because most of the DOTA II character design still based on Blizzard design..

Valve modified a bit only ...

blizzard lost a shit ton of money

i dont think valve made anything recently

what they did do is make TF2 free

The heroes design in DOTA 2 still based on Blizzard design..

yet Valve never give Blizzard credit for that..