A tweet that has me thinking.

[u/Axis251]

I don’t know if Riot can copy what valve has created with Deadlock. The atmosphere and setting so what I think makes deadlock so enjoyable. Yes the gameplay is amazing and the moba aspects are great but I just don’t think riot will even try to copy valve and make a deadlock clone. What is all y’all’s thoughts.

[u/X_Luci]

If the game is successful enough Riot will 100% create a Deadlock clone, just look at EVERY SINGLE game Riots owns, it's all copies from other successful games with their IP on it, they don't have a single original game.

[u/Strapperoni → u/X_Luci]

I hear what you’re saying but LoL is from the creators of DOTA this is coming from someone who played DOTA on Warcraft 3

[u/LeahTheTreeth → u/Strapperoni]

isn't eul the one who made DOTA? i thought guinsoo didn't start working on the project until 2 years later in 2004, you might be thinking of DOTA allstars, a successor mod

[u/DotA627b → u/Strapperoni]

No? They hired Pendragon first and he was basically the Steve Jobs to Icefrog's Steve Wozniak. He didn't code or balance, he only paid for the server costs of forum and the hosting site for the latest version of DotA.

Riot realized this eventually hence why they hired Guinsoo later, but even then, the OG dev (Eul) ended up working at Valve.

The whole, "From the makers of DOTA" was pure bullshit from Pendragon, which he did hoping LoL would kill DotA.

[u/Cymen90 → u/Strapperoni]

No, it is not. Eul AND Icefrog both work at Valve. Riot devs just deleted the DotA community forums and stole their hero concepts, no the same. They hired one of the modders who worked on DotA for a short time, not the creator OR the person who turned it from a fun hero-mashup mod into a competitive game.

[u/RoboBadger07 → u/Strapperoni]

Didnt the only fuckass devs leave to make league then actively sabotage dota forums

[u/hibari112 → u/RoboBadger07]

League players don't know that story unfortunately.