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PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] RadimentriX@troet.cafe 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

@tacofox @AwesomeLowlander wasnt LoL made by some of the original DotA modders? But somehow valve ended up with the rights for the name so they made DotA 2 as a standalone game? It's been ages since iv'e seen an article about the origins of those games :D

[โ€“] tacofox@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds very valve-ish. But my knowledge ends at Basshunter ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

See other comment thread for a bit of context

[โ€“] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

There were many people who worked on dota back then. There was no official version to begin with, you could find a dozen variants in bnet on any given day. Slowly it got centralised. Some of the modders ended up at LoL, others ended up at Valve. The name wasn't copyrighted, nobody really owned it. Valve kinda inherited it by virtue of hiring the guy running the mod team at the end.