Rumor: Valve and IceFrog Working on New DotA

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• I predict that you should be hired for even suggesting such an awesome concept! The minions could be the ... : bannacha

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  if the game is aiming for competitive audience then will be the same community. : Dantarios
  • sadly, you are correct. : rtrson
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  It will be the same type of community no matter what. There really isn't another game where one really ba... : synapse19
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    In that case, I hope Valve's DotA changes the gameplay so that a bad player doesn't give the enemy an adv... : code-e255
    • How is that bad game design? The basis of the game is to take over the other teams base. If someone didn'... : bannacha

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• Good show old chap. : icedcool

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  HoN is a lot to compete with, and they have a large head start. As a casual player of HoN, I'm not too i... : SavvyMike
  • Yea agreed. Hon is so incredibly polished and just a general lot of fun. Yea, the community may be a b... : icedcool

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  Oh great, more mediocre retards. : icedcool
  • Do ho, you are so edgy. : loganscar
• Agreed. Valve could never make incredibly awesome games like Barbie Deep Sea Adventures or Leisure Suit L... : dookiebot

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  I hope it's FPS honestly. I can definitely see a FPS dota doing very well and being much more enjoyable t... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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    You mean like Monday Night Combat? : DarKnightZer0
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      Monday Night Combat is third person (Not FPS) and a small time dev. The community will suck/be non-existe... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
      • Plus shooters are far superior on PC. : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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    There are a few that have attempted it and it's not a bad idea. But I also wouldn't mind seeing Valve do ... : Godhatesfatpeople
    • like Alien Swarm : flasher 907
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  Every genre is flooded. That doesn't mean anyone shouldn't try. If everyone did we wouldn't have the few ... : Godhatesfatpeople
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    I wouldn't say these games 'MOBAs' are flooded at all. In fact it's an emerging gameplay type (rpg in a ... : kainen1
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      i agree with you completely, three retail games? i wouldn't consider that flooded at all, far from it. T... : kyl31212
      • Not to mention that HoN is basically a DotA clone so it really is 3 games , with demigod being non-existe... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
• It's Valve though. This is probably them trying to extend themselves past their usual genre to grow Steam... : K1Bond007
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  Valve's quality is unmatched by anyone in the gaming industry, including Blizzard. : 0mar
  • I dont know about that, The people at Blizzard did an excellent job on Wings of Liberty. Valve is obvious... : kyl31212

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  This happens all the time though. Resume mistakes etc. DotA doesn't tell us much at all. : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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    Still, you think he'd have worked in the industry long enough to know you just refer to your current proj... : PlayfulPuppy
    • Well if he said that he was working on "My current project project, Valve software are awesome" The inter... : tidic
• no. Duke nukem needs to be in new dota. : icedcool

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  IceFrog is a studio Valve acquired and had them work on own thing while using the Source engine. Valve is... : Walterbennet
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    ^ this is so wrong,Icefrog is a guy not a studio : AxeltheCold
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      My bad. Doesn't change the thrust of my post. : Walterbennet
      • fair enough, i understand : AxeltheCold
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        You said "thrust"... On Shack. : Fpsnut
        • "My bad. Doesn't change the stuff I wrote in my post." Better? : Walterbennet
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  screw that. All we get is recycled games. more new IP's please. : DionB250
  • new ip is cool, but finally pushing out ep 3 would be freaking nice after the wait. not that dota is rea... : kiddygrinder
  • If only so many recycled games were as good as the HL series. Valve could make 20 Half-Life's and I'd bee... : Godhatesfatpeople

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• It should be like the Squad Action section in HL2. Combine vs Rebels in a City. : AxeMan808
• SC2's DOTA is futuristic....though currently all of those maps suck : nisolider
• Fantasy would be a first time for Valve, though : mollikka

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  You mean the part where Riot is making tons of money from said store? : PrawnWonton
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    Yeah, Riot is doing really well. I don't get this comment. : Brian Leahy
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      i mean by in the way they leave some champions not buff or how some are 6300ip or you didnt see this htt... : AxeltheCold
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        Vocal minority on the boards. Just because you or I might not do microtransactions, doesn't mean others d... : Brian Leahy
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          I know many free-to-play game devs have said they're able to be successful based on a small percentage of... : Walterbennet
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            The argument is that the small percentage purchasing additional content is still more than would purchase... : Brian Leahy
            • Exactly. A couple friends and I started playing it because it was free. Instead of paying for something... : Gusty1

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• Demigod had so many problems, it really just wasn't ready to ship when it did. LoL is probably a better e... : ratman
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  It's valve. I will buy it. :/ : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
  • Pretty much ^^this. To get a player base for a game Valve merely need to release it. A sizable player ... : MeestaNob
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  this might be a problem if it were another company. tons of people will play it simply because its valve. : rtrson
  • And if it's free, with achievements and built-in steam community support, it certainly stands an awesome ... : Walterbennet
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  Steam integration alone will go a long to ensure it has a sizeable player base. : synapse19
  • *way : synapse19
• Why do they need the same audience? Throw some zombies in there and it's a brand new type of RTS. : molaughlen

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• Pretty sure it won't be a "new" engine. It will most likely be the more updated version of Source. Which ... : Godhatesfatpeople

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  The way I read it, it was just something that would excite DotA fans, not necessarily another version of ... : Brian Leahy
  • Fair enough. : K1Bond007
• Hmm, he doesn't specifically confirm a Valve-branded, DotA-like project in that post. But it's certainly ... : Walterbennet