How Valve Robbed Blizzard of The Biggest eSport in the World 

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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.

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

How Blizzard took the biggest L possible by their own decision

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

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

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

Valve is winning without doing anything

good thing valve managed to get icefrog XD

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

These type of videos are super high quality amazing work Blitz

"Don't you guys have phone??" ☠️☠️

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

Love this kind of videos, keep them going Blitz

blizzard is done.

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

i didnt even realise this is a BlitzSpanks video

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

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

Love these kinds of vid man

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.

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 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!

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

valve still hasn't released the ringmaster bruv

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

Hey blitz congrats on 100k

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!

damn I forgot this was a blitzspanks vid, good stuff

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

Great video Blitz!!

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

Blizzard didn't even want to hire ice forg

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

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

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

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.

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

Also I love your recent contents

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.

Nokia and Blackberry would be proud

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

Heroes of the Storm was a really fun game tbf, but its weakness was how casual it felt compared to other MOBAs, in a genre where the audience is usually pretty hardcore.

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."

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

ayo!!! this is a blitz video?

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

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

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.

my ears died during the starcraft launch

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

Love ur vids man💕

Blizzard didn’t recognize the biggest opportunity they had!

Basically all Blizzard had to do was not have share exp, add farming gold, and have a game mode that didnt have different objectives. They should hire me.

14年dota玩家，从2010年我就开始玩dota1了

For anyone wondering its pokemon RSE verdanturf town theme

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.

ICE FROG IS THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF BLIZZTARD, NOW VALVE GOT ICE FROG

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 ; )))

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?

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

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

Robbed? More like blizzard said "idc about that trash custom map called dota". And it went to valve and hunts them in their nightmares to this day

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

Never thought id see starcraft on blitz's channel lol

Robbed is a strong word and a wrong one a that, BlIzzard ignored one of the best parts of WC3 and now it cost them dearly but it was a bleesing to us DotA under Activision would be a HORRENDOUS place

Pokemon background music ❤

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

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.

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

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.

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

Eyo am not sure if this is new type of content, but I like this.

Imagine Blizzard denied Ice Frog

RIP Heroes of Newerth.. doesn't even get a mention in this video sadge..

I kinda wish Valve would make an RTS game with a bit of MOBA aspect.

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.

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

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

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.