Talk:Ancient Scepter/@comment-24219998-20140127041135

I used to play WarCraft 3 Battle.net, DotA consumed the open game lists and really still does.

Interestingly though, it was Blizzard who started the game in a prebuilt custom map called Defense of the Ancients, so really, DotA is an illegal game selling Blizzard material.

The custom game was the basis of many more DotA's later on, motivating people to use the WorldEdit that came with WarCraft 3 to create their own custom games.

It's possible that Hopoo created games back then, and upon getting bored of the WorldEdit engine, decided to make a game using another engine.

I haven't played DotA or LoL, but it does seem possible that WarCraft's DotA was a catalyst in creating RoR.