In a recent interview with IGN, Valve senior project manager Erik Johnson said that his team won’t be making any significant changes to Defense of the Ancients’ core gameplay, and that many of the game’s original heroes will be featured in the sequel.
That should please everybody – this way, players won’t have to learn the names of too many new “noob,” “imba” and “gay” characters before dialling up and verbally abusing strangers on the interwebs.
“There’s the core gameplay,” says Johnson, “the actual game rules for how you play DotA. We’d be pretty hard-pressed to improve on that. I feel like IceFrog’s done such a good job at that and it’s something that his level of experience is so much higher with that community that it probably doesn’t make a lot of sense for us to go in and change a lot of that, so the core gameplay is the same.”
Also, apparently it’s okay to call DotA, ‘Dota,’ like it’s a proper word.
“When people talk about DotA they say Dota,” Johnson explains. “It’s kind of a word, at this point. For us it’s just a word, or a brand name.” So that’s that.
“It’s going to be most of the heroes that you’re familiar with from Dota,” he continues. “Over time there’ll be new heroes that are added to it just like IceFrog’s adding to [the original] Dota all the time. [Dota] is the game that people are used to, that all 20 million of those people are used to playing. There’s this big investment in your skill in Dota…and we don’t want to throw that away.”
Valve’s version of Defense of the Ancients – DOTA 2 – is due out sometime this year.
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