Talking to Eurogamer, Blizzard game design guy Rob Pardo apparently isn’t too happy about Valve trademarking the popular WarCraft III mod, Defence of the Ancients, for its own sequel.
“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,” he says, describing his own reaction as “a little bit of confusion, to be honest. Certainly, 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,” adds Pardo. “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.”
Sounds like trash talking to me. Valve should totally send over some thugs and sort this guy out, DotA-style.
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