Blizzard takes issue with Valve's DOTA trademark

Valve's going forward with their next game under the DOTAtrademark isn't sitting well with Rob Pardo, VP of game design at Blizzard. He believes the name should stay with the fans as it was made up alongside the community-driven game itself.

Pardo says Valve's decision left him quite flustered since Valve leaves custom content to the player community, not claim it as their own:

"It just seems a really strange move to us that Valve would go off and try to exclusively trademark the term considering it's something that's been freely available to us and everyone in the Warcraft III community up to this point. To us, that means that you're really taking it away from the Blizzard and Warcraft III community and that just doesn't seem the right thing to do."

Blizzard is currently working on a new StarCraft II mod called Blizzard DOTA that may or may not attract Valve's attention. Should Valve object to the use of the term, Pardo assures Blizzard would counter with the fact that Valve has only filed for the name, not actually own it yet.

Source:Eurogamer

Section:PC Games

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