Or even getting a friend to download it on a faster connection, and giving it to you physically on a USB drive. Picking up the latest copy of DotA was often a case of grabbing it from a peer-to-peer file-sharing program.
What’s more, the mod didn’t just get shared via browser-based downloads. Some of the sites included ModDB,, , and others. The earliest versions of DotA Allstars were shared on multiple mod websites. Instead, Dota had numerous spin-offs and derivatives, but the most popular was called DotA Allstars. Butwhat people have forgotten, or never knew, was that when Defense of the Ancients was first created it wasn’t a single mod with a single developer. Most people know that Dota was originally a Warcraft 3 mod. The incident, of course, was the removal of, and the ensuing fallout from that event. A saga that was so divisive and enraging that even 12+ years later, many of the parties involved are still bitter about it. Each game has its merits, an international following, and their own floundering North American scenes.īut there was a time where real hatred existed between these two games, especially if you were a Dota fan. There’s space in the world for both Dota and League. at this point, it’s all just (mostly) friendly banter. Outside of jabs about difficulty, balance, how fun the game is, whether it’s for kids, etc. “Right back at you,” says the Dota player, “talk to me about complexity when League heroes have six active items to use.” “Talk to me about how complex Dota is when it’s characters have four active abilities!” a League player might say.
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