Defense of the Ancients

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Defense of the Ancients (DotA Allstars or DotA) is a map for the  Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne...

It heavily changed the gameplay without using many new assets.

Prior work

 Herzog Zwei had some unusual gameplay but had not lanes and lane pushing at all.

 StarCraft had scenario known as "Aeon of Strife"^[Clarify] according to Kevin Tok in "Warcraft 3: Defense of the Ancients 101".

 Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos had a map Defense of the Ancients by Eul...^[Clarify]

• Confirm:DotA Allstars 0.60 is a modded version of DotA TFT 7.0. DotA TFT 7.0 by I3latant_Abuse [?] was released on 22/10/03.
• Confirm:DotA TFT 7.0 is also a modded version of DotA TFT 1.8 by GEO. DotA TFT 2.5 was released on 30/07/03.
• Confirm:DotA TFT 1.8 is also a modded version of Eul Original DotA, Eul's Defense of the Ancients 2.9.

- How popular is this game? What is its background?

- The basic core concept of the game stretches back almost 10 years to the early days of  StarCraft with a mod called Aeon of Strife and then afterwards with Valley of Dissent followed by RoC-DotA on Warcraft 3 by Euls. They had a relatively small but loyal playerbase. After the release of Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, many more mods of this concept took form. One of these was mods was DotA-Allstars, originally a collection of the most popular heroes from the other mods, initially developed by Meian followed by Guinsoo and then Neichus. Another DotA mod called DotA-Chaos was building up popularity in China at this time.

IceFrog's main focus and goals in the past 5 or so years have been to dramatically redesign and rebalance the original game concept and expand on it in order to make it a more enjoyable and engaging game for both casual and competitive players. In the last 2 years, the mod has seen an explosive increase in new players as well as acceptance into many e-sports organizations, growing from a few tens of thousands of players many years ago to the many millions of players it has right now. It is still growing more and more with each passing day.

I appreciate all the support and feedback that the fans provide, I would not have the motivation to develop this game every day without them.

Versions

Date	Ver	Size	D	RN	Sources and notes
2004-01-09	0.60				The first version according to some sources
2004-04-09	4.0beta2				The first version with Roshan and Runes
	5.78				The earliest version accessible with the WM
2005-03-01	6.0				Some describe it as the first version comparable to the Dota 2...
	6.27b	2.3 MB	1		The earliest version that can be downloaded from the WM
	6.83d	7.8 MB	1		The latest version that can be downloaded from the WM
	6.69c				The latest update according to some sources

Notes

• Latest and stable

- What is the difference between Latest Map and Stable Map
- The Latest Map always has new and experimental features. The Stable Map is the recommended version for tournament use.

Technical notes

• Files are named like DotA Allstars v5.78.w3x or DotA v6.83d.w3x.

Authors

• Ragn0r
• Meian
• Icefrog

External links

• http://www.dota-allstars.com -
• http://www.getdota.com -
• http://www.playdota.com -
• Hall of Fame -
• Korean wiki about... -