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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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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Crazy how?

[–] LacklusterGamer@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

So looking it up my guess is I played AoE over Warcraft, never understood DOTA, don't really like battle area games, and have only ever watched AoE in e-Sports.

[–] tacofox@lemm.ee 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

I just learned that DOTA was a wc3 mod originally like last month, so I’m assuming that’s what they mean?

Edit: and how did I find out? Well, Basshunter’s “DOTA” music video of course. Which coincidentally I also learned was about DOTA the game lol.

[–] LacklusterGamer@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Nope. I know about DOTA and how it has a bunch of spin offs. One of my best friends plays some weird betting game that is a mod of DOTA and he tried to explain the whole thing to me a long time ago.

[–] RadimentriX@troet.cafe 2 points 17 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

[–] tacofox@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds very valve-ish. But my knowledge ends at Basshunter 😅

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

See other comment thread for a bit of context

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 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.