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Valve hires the main DotA developer


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Valve comes rather late to the party though. League of Legends will be out this month. Then there's StarCraft II next year, Blizz will no doubt try hard to migrate the DotA player base to SC2. I won't be surprised if SC2 comes with an official DotA-like map.

 

I'm sure they'll create some crazy First Person DotA with Portals or something. They're not just going to release a DotA clone, that market is surprisingly saturated at the moment.

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Valve comes rather late to the party though. League of Legends will be out this month. Then there's StarCraft II next year, Blizz will no doubt try hard to migrate the DotA player base to SC2. I won't be surprised if SC2 comes with an official DotA-like map.

 

And HoN, which I've already pre-ordered and am currently playing - it's great.

 

But I don't think it matters. Valve will do what they always do, and I don't think being late to the party is going to stop them.

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I remember when mappers could actually host their maps and get them known.

"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

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No reason to get excited at all. It's just Valve hiring some popular mapper (who doesn't actually make the contents of his map, BTW).

"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

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They hired a psychologist last year to help them make the Steam sales better. They do all kinds of crazy stuff.

 

Maybe a DotA-like mode for L4D2?

And H-L 2 Ep 3 is delayed because they felt the urge to implement hand signals for the deaf (they can't read color coded subtitles it seems) with some lame in story explanation that Alyx had a deaf boyfriend bla bla and she taught Dog how to etc etc and now they start using it for some reason.
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Pretty sure HL2 Ep3 is just taking long to make because their Hammer editor is ****.

"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

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