Blizzard: Valve’s DOTA Trademark “Doesn’t Seem The Right Thing To Do”

Rob Pardo, Executive Vice President of Game Design at Blizzard, has expressed concern at the DOTA trademark filed by Valve earlier this year.

Valve have already announced that they are making DOTA 2, but Pardo has said in an interview with Eurogamer that “To us, that means that you’re really taking it away from the Blizzard and Warcraft III community and that just doesn’t seem the right thing to do.”

Pardo went on: “DOTA came out of the Blizzard community… It just seems a really strange move to us that Valve would go off and try to exclusively trademark the term considering it’s something that’s been freely available to us and everyone in the Warcraft III community up to this point.

“Valve is usually so pro mod community. It’s such a community company that it just seems like a really strange move to us… I really don’t understand why [they would do it], to be honest.”

If it seems odd that Blizzard would speak up now, it may be due tot he fact that they’ve just announced Blizzard DOTA at Blizzcon, an all-stars type DOTA title featuring characters from the company’s games. “Our contention is that [the name] should continue to be available to Blizzard and to our community,” said Pardo.

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  • themanguydude

    This sounds more like ” FUCK, WHY DIDN’T WE HIRE ICEFROG FIRST?!” and now they are raging about it. Hence, the introduction of Blizzard Dota and now comments like these

  • Dudertard

    “I-I just can’t understand why the creators of Dota would want to make a stand-alone game client for their original work and make money off of it. They should just keep it a part of Warcraft III so its functionality will never progress forward.” -What Rob Pardo really meant

    Rob’s pretty much a dumbass for saying what he said above. They’ve already made HoN which is pretty much a duplicate of the Dota custom game, and they’ve already trademarked that as a part of S2Games. Has Pardo been living solely at Blizzard lately to not know that they’ve already “taken it away from the Blizzard and Warcraft III”? The guy seems like a douchebag in my opinion, because Dota was never Blizzard’s idea. Sure, Warcraft III allowed these guys to make a rough draft of the game they would inevitably make a stand-alone version of, but they put a lot of work into Dota to make it work with Warcraft III’s now shitty and ridiculously ancient game engine. It’s their work, Rob, not yours.

  • Charlie Manson

    I can’t agree with Dudertard more. Also, since League of Legends is made by the creator of DoTA and DoTA allstars isn’t that already, in a sense, DoTA 2?