Talk:Ancient Scepter/@comment-24219998-20140127041135/@comment-61.227.222.156-20140214030300

AoS was the first actual gamemode of the MOBA/ARTS type, which was done in Brood War, not War3. The name DotA came when Eul remade it in WorldEdit, and called it Defense of the Ancients. After that is when all of the people you mention made spinoffs of different types (Chaos/Swarm/3-Way/etc.). Then Gunisoo took heroes/ideas from all of them and made All-Stars. And no, they don't own all the IP rights, something with they changed in the SC2 editor. They only own the IP rights to certain characters, which is why some heroes have "lost" their name in DotA2.