Talk:Crystalline Flask/@comment-178.148.39.100-20121120011716/@comment-4659726-20121121040023

Dota 1, worked on by Guinsoo who passed it to Icefrog.

League hires Guinsoo to help with game creation thus making it the spiritual successor to dota. Hardcore dota fans want something that resembles dota more and not the more user friendly (with less of a stupid high learning curve). Valve (good company) hires Icefrog for Dota2.

League notices it's only real competition in the moba genre is Dota2. Takes notes from both dota and other mobas to improve it's support game/allow innovation in their game. Competes with dota. (not to mention Guinsoo was the one who worked on Dota before icefrog so he adds legitimacy on the "made by the people who made dota" advertisement that league had a while ago before Dota2 was made.)