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[-] applebusch@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

For some history, the original DOTA was a custom map in Warcraft 3. It pretty much defined the moba genre. From there lots of clones were created, and eventually some were made into full games. League of Legends is one of those, and became the most popular. So yes, they're all just Warcraft 3 with only the hero parts.

[-] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

League wasnt a clone, league was in the beginning by the people behind the original w3 dota map :')

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the main maintainer of DotA at the time IceFrog works with Valve and is behind Dota 2.

so yes, LoL is a knockoff.

https://youtu.be/JBI9NlPqRi0?si=9T7DBYB2MOfQKo4N

No. Icefrog was the assistant dev. Guinsoo was the main dev and left dota to start LoL, leaving icefrog in charge of the project.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 22 points 1 year ago

Clone isn't derogatory.

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