User blog comment:Emptylord/Blogs/Where's the lore going?/@comment-5556439-20130807213038/@comment-5556439-20130807220944

Valve never bought the rights to DOTA, Blizzard gave them the right to use it.....There were no rights to buy.......

DOTA was never owned by Blizzard to begin with. Warcraft 3 was owned by Blizzard, so the names, styles, themes, lores etc were all property of Blizzard, not the game. If you played the original AoS mods you would know that. DOTA was simply a variation of the Aeon of Strife map created from Starcraft. There were plenty of other mods created for Starcraft and Warcraft 3 but DOTA which POPULARIZED, not created mind you, what we currently call MOBA's. It was a modded map with a different rule-set and script to make it play differently. You were basically still playing WC3 but only using one Hero instead of an Army + Base.

Ill say it again, this isnt a story-driven game. Its a competitive Multiplayer game with Lore added to it to make it interesting.