Rob Pardo, Executive Vice President of Game Design at Blizzard, has expressed concern at the DOTA trademark filed by Valve earlier this year.
Valve have already announced that they are making DOTA 2, but Pardo has said in an interview with Eurogamer that “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.”
Pardo went on: “DOTA came out of the Blizzard community… 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.
“Valve is usually so pro mod community. It’s such a community company that it just seems like a really strange move to us… I really don’t understand why [they would do it], to be honest.”
If it seems odd that Blizzard would speak up now, it may be due tot he fact that they’ve just announced Blizzard DOTA at Blizzcon, an all-stars type DOTA title featuring characters from the company’s games. “Our contention is that [the name] should continue to be available to Blizzard and to our community,” said Pardo.
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