Friday, May 11, 2012

Valve and Blizzard have settled DOTA dispute

Blizzard and Valve announces DOTA Agreement

Irvine, California - Blizzard Entertainment and Valve Corporation have announced a mutual agreement regarding the use of the Dota name. Valve will continue to use the DOTA / Dota 2 trademark commercially while Blizzard Entertainment will preserve noncommercial use of DOTA for its community in terms of player-created custom maps for Warcraft 3 and StarCraft 2.


Dota fans worldwide celebrate!

"We're pleased that we could come to an agreement with Blizzard without drawing things out in a way that would benefit no one. We both want to focus on the things our fans care about, creating and shipping great games for our communities."
-- Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve Corporation

Editor's Notes:
This is a win-win situation for both companies and to the huge DotA fanbase.

7 comments:

  1. that's awesome. I figured this was going to happen. Glad it actually did.

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  2. Blizzard annoying company

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  3. hell yeah, great job Valve and Blizz, now lets play dota 2 and diablo 3..

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  4. Great to see that Riots attempt to smear dota by pitting valve vs blizzard failed... We get to preserve some integrity in this community of ours.

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  5. Blizzard dont want to pay icefrog?? what's the point to interfere?????? o0o

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  6. It`s very good news. Peace in the world!

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