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valve released game with "2" on its title - massive success

How Blizzard took the biggest L possible by their own decision

Valve is winning without doing anything

I love how one dude replied "Is this an out of season april fools joke?" When diablo immortal was annouced

Valve didn't rob Blizzard, Blizzard just constantly refuses to believe they've made any mistakes and repeatedly makes the same ones over and over.

With how much Blizzard has bungled everything I'm glad Valve won.

I'm disappointed that you forgot to add the fact that they tried to add a Terms of Agreement with the Warcraft:Reforge's custom maps where they will legally own any maps/game modes made/created in W:RE to prevent another Dota 2 incident from happening

Pretty sure Icefrog worked at multiple studios before landing at Valve. This includes Riot Games, and S2 Games (they made HoN, which was the GOAT MOBA). On top of that, Icefrog tried to get Blizzard to believe in Dota, and they rejected him each and every time. There was no robbing, more like Valve took a good piece of furniture left on the side of the road knowing it was an extremely high quality piece that just needed some love.

good thing valve managed to get icefrog XD

seeing blizzard's current situation, i believe we are in the right timeline dota 2 is far from perfect but it could be alot i mean ALOT worse

>be Blizzard >reject DotA >make HotS >bruh.mp3

They were THE golden Goose, but failed to look at the eggs they were laying which in turns made the hyenas rob them of it all.

Imagine if Blizzard made a Dota 2 with the original lore of wc3 with the 4 factions. The game would've had more appeal since its roots wouldve been deeper. Its absolutely moronic how they handled the situation, what a massive opportunity wasted.

Blizzard is like the British kid yapping meme while Valve is like gigachad but with Gaben

Now do how blizzard shot their OTHER foot cancelling heroes of the storm right when it was making college circuits

There's also that thing in WC III Refunded's EULA that any content made there will be own by Blizzard, not whoever made it. I don't know if it's still around but this caused even more outrage back in 2020

Icefrog: I can make dota game Blizzard: No Valve makes Dota 2 Blizzard: *Surprise Pikachu face*

well done on this vid, you're getting pretty good at the documentary format

Yes please, this kind of content is what I love and your voice delivering it kinda perfect fit

These type of videos are super high quality amazing work Blitz

I love the Pokémon theme at the end lol, thanks for the video

Very cool to see this kind of content here. Happy to see you expanding as a creator. Keep up the good work!

A deserved L from Blizzard

Some big misstakes. 1) By time Guinsoo was hired by Riot, he was not a dota developer for quite long time. 2) HoN, Smite and other moba based were realeased way before DOta2 was announced.

"Don't you guys have phone??" ☠️☠️

Nice video, made me remember the old days of watching StarCraft tournaments! That’s what really got me into the dota scene to begin with!

You're getting really good with this kind of videos, keep it up!!

I was under the impression Blizzard only started working on blizzard dota _after_ the release of dota 2.

icefrog goes to blizzard first , the only thing that they can blame is their own shortsighted and overconfident.

Blizzard could have had chances with HoTS to compete due its early popularity BUT, some idiot got too greedy and started demand insane royalties when even a LAN-event would have price pool of total +10k and blizzard games were involved. So what happened instead was that every non-blizzard LAN-event dropped all Blizzard games out of their e-sport event lists and went with Dota/LoL/CS events. This eventually lead to that people with esports dream started focus on these games and Blizzard games got totally over shadowed. So Blizzard never really got "Robbed", but more that they shot their both knees and hands.

Yo I love this new content stuff from you. Mini-"Documentaries" are my favourite ❤

Love this kind of videos, keep them going Blitz

i didnt even realise this is a BlitzSpanks video

bro improved his editing skills and thought we wouldn't notice. gj man

Valve game titles started as a custom map/games like portal, counter strike and tf2. Dota really fits well on Valve.

i see a documentary, i click. damn i was suprised blitz made this. nice

You forgot that when they launched reforged, they put a clause in the game stating that every single mod made in the game would belong to them legally!

make more content like this blitz!! really enjoyed these kind of videos

Love these kinds of vid man

fun fact if i`m not mistaken last playable DotA map on Warcraft RoC is last updated by Icefrog....with that said i`m glad i`m able to play dota free of charge with ANY other game designed by fans also free!

blizzard is done.

Nokia and Blackberry would be proud

Lol the funny thing is Heros of the Storm was actually decently popular and PROFITABLE. Like Blizzard just was not making as much as they wanted. It was profitable though and so they just shut it down because they were too greedy.

Im so glad my fav Dota 2 creator is back and bigger. Im sure Blitz wont remember but its Hai, played with you once or twice in lobby

Clownfall is so delayed that my guy became a researcher

valve still hasn't released the ringmaster bruv

Hey blitz congrats on 100k

How Gabe pulls a 100000000IQ move by not doing anything stupid and just watching competitors shoot themselves in the foot

I knew the lore of esports and dota but i have one question? why a pokemon song at the end?

Blizzard: "We're going to make sure we never lose out! From now on, anytime someone makes something in our engine, it's ours, agreed upon in our EULA!" Disney: "So... one of your players just made a Mickey Mouse RPG in your engine, so we're suing you." Blizzard: "What? That's just something our players made, we don't claim to own- wait, sh*, we do own that."

Holdup I started watching this video and up until the Ad i had not realized it was BlitzSpanks, i had not watched a video of his for YEARS. Good stuff

"Never interrupt your enemy when He is making a mistake" - NB

Great video Blitz!!

I remember playing Dota 1 on Warcraft 3 servers with my friends back in 2005-2006. Blizzard was too focused on WoW, they couldn't even upgrade their own game.

"you think you do, but you dont" kekw😅 the guy eats his own words

Perfectly correct lore good work dude most people don't even know 😂

The different objectives made HOTS awesome for me. The problem was it felt too shallow heroes needed talent trees if they werent gonna do items. and yeah shared xp felt like baby mode.

I think in Warcraft 3 Reforged EULA, it gives Blizzard total ownership of all the Custom Games. You know, just in case someone makes a new banger game type using their game.

dota is from 2004 and the first people working on it who later went to create league and riot, were at the time of leaving, trying to destroy the idea of defence of the ancients , never forget ; )))

Watched the whole thing and realised this was a blitzspanks video 💀

Those legal battles... you know that Scyte of Vise was once calles Guinso's ;)

Heroes of the Storm is actually my favorite MOBA game. It's both sad and hilarious how badly Blizzard bombed the 2010s. They could have been the kings of E-Sports with SC2, DOTA, and Overwatch

It was not the "biggest esport in the world". But it had potential. Valve managed it well and BECAME the biggest esport. Blizzard would already have discontinued Dota 2.

You got some facts wrong about about StarCraft BroodWar. The game was NOT figured out in a decade and strategies were continuously evolving and the game was more popular than ever. There was NO "new update" needed, it's like saying chess needs an update. The game only died because Blizzard forced KESPA (who organizes SC tournaments in Korea) to switch over from BW to SC2. Blizzard killed their own game when it was at its peak. SC BW although past its prime, is still very popular in Korea and strategies are still evolving and the games today are NOTHING like that games in the past. Also the pro scene was playing BroodWar from very early on, the expansion was released around a year after the original.

StarCraft brood war wasn’t waning in popularity when StarCraft 2 came out and it certainly wasn’t a solved game. SC2 only became more popular outside of Korea. If anything the SC2 pro scene in Korea died pretty quickly with Brood war still to this day being much more popular than SC2. The game has definitely not gotten stale by any sense of the term. Blizzard’s focus on SC2 came from a wish to not be shut out of the distribution and streaming of the esports scene. StarCraft Brood War was illegally being shown on cable and tournaments being run without permission from Blizzard. Blizzard tried to sue to get either royalties or StarCraft off the air but lost the suit. SC2 represented a way for blizzard to reclaim the rights to organize tournaments and broadcast matches for StarCraft since they would be able to start everything instead of coming late to the party. The irony of SC2, a game made to be an esport, being less popular in the country that made the franchise an esport is palpable. It somewhat mirrors what happened with Dota 2 in a way

People: We want dota, and also classic wow. Blizzard: No... no you don't.

don't mind me yapping but in my opinion, Valve should've taken advantage of the Warcraft 3 Refunded fiasco and upgraded the DotA 2 Arcade, Map Editor, and Model Editor to grab the bleeding players of WC3 and bank on the custom game scene; and it's still a total mistake to kill the Arcade by banning monetization when Valve could've just moderated and taxed on them instead anyway, hope Valve does something funny and make an RTS campaign series for DotA 2 with a dedicated Co-op mode like in Starcraft 2, and even an open world MMO for DotA 2 lore btw, there was also another Warcraft 3 custom game - Pokemon Defense, that someone used as inspiration for DotA Chess in DotA 2 Arcade that eventually made it into its own Auto Chess mobile game, DotA Underlords, League's Teamfight Tactics, and even Mobile Legends Magic Chess also, I believe that the time Icefrog asked Blizzard for collaboration, Activision already assimilated Blizzard, no?

using the "2" is the best decision Valve makes it. As a Dota player, I never knew that Dota and Dota2 were different companies. Thanks for sharing this video.

very nice video (couldn't edge past 2 minutes)

It's really, really heartbreaking. My first PC game was Starcraft and Half-Life. Those 2 games really greatest games for me all time. And I always watched Starcraft ESports.

Biggest winner here is us with this upload 🗣️🔥🔥🎉😂

Blizzard didn't even want to hire ice forg

I was there Gandalf,, I was playing Dota in 2004-2005, a map version is still stuck in my memory, dota 5.83b.

You got balls using that pokemon theme, the Nintendo Ninjas will be here any minute.

ayo!!! this is a blitz video?

Also I love your recent contents

The last clip is absolutly golden haha - i believe they are learning from their mistake or are they?

Valve when they got the dota: ~ What should we name ? - how about dota *2* ~ BRILLIANT

Both LoL and Dota2 developers had to go through many years of experimentation to optimize game balance, hero/item variety and complexity. When blizzard announced heroes of the storm, I thought there is no way they can possibly put up a refined game without those years of learning and tuning. Especially they had the game balance manager for sc2 for the job, who had trouble making sc2 balanced at the competitive level imo

Blizzard is that girlfriend that wants the food you ordered because it looks better than what she ordered.

I saw Smite there, I love Smite sooooo much. Really changed my whole gaming habit and since years and years I’m playing 5 minutes other games and hours of Smite in a day.

I have no fear, but that Blizzard's machinegun of L's... it's scary.

Love ur vids man💕

2009? I remember my friends playing Dota wayback in 2005. They even skip classes just to play in net cafes.

14年dota玩家，从2010年我就开始玩dota1了

There is a huge difference on the "MOBAs", they were free to play to starters, so no money needed as other genres to buy and play, and also being a team focused game instead a 1v1 it allowed people to let go the frustration of acknowledging they were bad by putting the blame on their team player.

Blizzard didn’t recognize the biggest opportunity they had!

Satisfying to learn something good one make more please ❤

to be completely fair, at that time blizzard was a leader in rts genre, in mmo genre and soon joining fps as well (overwatch). Also keep in mind that back then blizzard actually cared about making high quality games. Which demands lot of resources. But its possible that they just had their hands full already. Its like when youre a child, you have 10 toys, you cant play with all simultaneousely but when your sibling takes some of them you suddenly really want to play with it (hence the lawsuit). Theoretically they could just make a halfass version of original dota, milk the brand and leave it die. But I think they just chose not to, which cost them the race. You cant have everything. HotS in my opinion is pretty fun game, but they released it in worst possible moment. Also I think they didnt read well the target audience. They tried to make it less casual than league but it wasnt enough. It was still pretty complex for very casual audience, so why leave league? Most people jumped in, liked the freshness but at some point got back to league/dota or leave the genre completely for fortnite/pubg. I think something similar to mobile legends would be much better at that time. Very simple mechanics, small map, fast games. But again, I personally like the game they created, I just think the audience wasnt there, which is sad

Blizzard really toke the biggest L and valve toke the biggest W Gaben is a ERvil Mastermind

my ears died during the starcraft launch

Never thought id see starcraft on blitz's channel lol

Pokemon background music ❤

me : is this steam ,dota, custom thing on steam any of it free ?? gaben aka thanos : 'everything'

I don`t know if it`s true but i read that icefrog was laughed out of blizzards office for trying to make dota a stand alone game. Valve welcomed him with open arms tho and i`m happy for that

I wish Dota was about the same like 2012 dota 2, I never want to leave such a beautiful place to live in.

Valve says, "I'm smort!" Blizzard says, "we forgot how to make games worth buying, so let's just keep WoW going and re-release our last game of quality."

watching this while farming in SoD. i think i did, and i do.

For anyone wondering its pokemon RSE verdanturf town theme