Released on Jwith 46 heroes initially, the game now boasts 111 heroes ported from DotA’s 112 hero roster, plus all the items with new additions with a few changes to avoid copyright issues. Among these is Valve Software’s DotA 2 and Riot Games’ League of Legends.ĭotA 2 is the stand-alone sequel to the original Warcraft III custom map Defense of the Ancients (DotA). With this in mind, and the explosive fame of the MOBA genre, companies sought to make their own games. Players wanted additional features that were impossible to put at the mod such as matchmaking, penalty systems, etc. Guinsoo later on passed the map to the modder Icefrog, and DotA’s popularity soared as new versions with more content were released.Īs it was just a mod, DotA was confined to the engines of Warcraft III. The map became the most successful DotA version of all, and eventually Blizzard held a DotA tournament in 2005 during their first BlizzCon event. A player named Steve “Guinsoo” Feak made his own modifications to the said map to make it more refined and balanced, including a focus on fighting actual human players instead of AI. A pair of modders named Meian and Ragn0r gathered all the heroes from the other DotA versions and made the map DotA Allstars. Many other modders made their own versions of DotA, and Eul took some time off on his own version.
Warcraft III’s expansion The Frozen Throne was released a year later along with a much more powerful map editor. Characters now levelled up and can unlock abilities as the game goes on, and the money earned for killing enemy units can be used to purchase beneficial items. Eul, a modder, worked on the map’s new incarnation named Defense of the Ancients and it was wildly different than Aeon of Strife. With the release of Warcraft III, fans of Aeon of Strife sought to recreate their favourite custom map on this new and better engine.
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