Modern video games with lasting impact

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@Miltonyz

Dota is much older than LOL. It started as a Watercraft 3 mod. Dota2 is essentially a graphical and engine update to Dota with official support. Its a fairly complex story but I believe that the creators of LOL started as Dota modders. What League did to change the game was to monetize it and create a sport out of a genre that up until that point was fairly obscure. Without League I am sure that Valve would have never became invested in Dota and it would still simply be a niche game.

I’m familiar with the history, and there’s a reason I only mentioned DotA2 - that was the suggestion I was arguing against. I did not claim that LOL was the genre progenitor, merely the game that had the impact.

[Jragon]

@Miltonyz

Dota is much older than LOL. It started as a Watercraft 3 mod. Dota2 is essentially a graphical and engine update to Dota with official support. Its a fairly complex story but I believe that the creators of LOL started as Dota modders. What League did to change the game was to monetize it and create a sport out of a genre that up until that point was fairly obscure. Without League I am sure that Valve would have never became invested in Dota and it would still simply be a niche game.

This in itself is incomplete.

The Dota that Dota 2 comes from is actually Dota Allstars, which is a Frozen Throne update of the original DOTA for WC3 which in and of itself was in a well established map genre called “AoS-type” maps after Aeon of Strife – the original map in this paradigm for Starcraft 1.