DOTA 2 could end up being delayed from its original release as Blizzard has sued Valve over the rights to the series with a court date set in the near future.
Blizzard is claiming Valve's use of the name and the MOBA style (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) is in violation to their exclusive association used in the Warcraft series.
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"Valve seeks to appropriate the more than seven years of goodwill that Blizzard has developed in the mark DOTA and in its Warcraft III computer game, and take for itself a name that has come to signify the product of years of time and energy expended by Blizzard and by fans of Warcraft III.”
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While Blizzard themselves did not create the original DOTA game, it was created from the Warcraft community using mod tools from Blizzard's Warcraft II game. The MOBA style was also created as a result for use in MMO and RTS type games. Blizzard is trying to claim ownership for both DOTA and MOBA as a result of both being done using their game as the basis.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/bliz...ve-over-dota-2
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