About the recent controversy of Icefrog (the creator of DOTA game in Warcraft 3) joining the Valve team to create the new DOTA 2 game.
http://icefrogtruth.blogspot.com/
I found this really similar to the Facebook controversy:
"We found out that not only did he lie about DOTA, but he lied about his involvement with both Riot Games and S2 Games. As I said at the start of this blog, you can go to www.dota-allstars.com to brush up on that history. This is the equivalent of the CEO of McDonald's (DOTA) looking for a job at Burger King (Riot Games), then working for Fatburger (S2 Games), then quitting and going to work for Wendy's (Valve) but outright lying to Wendy's of his involvement with ANY previous employer, despite the fact that he had contributed to a significant chunk of development with each company. In the corporate world, this would be the equivalent of stealing trade secrets. But instead, this is the game development business, and the rules are not so established."
I play DOTA every night and this has simply changed my views on many software creators. Thanks for the information! I passed it to my friends who I play with over Skype and now we're talking about it.
ReplyDeleteI think this article actually has more to do with problems of anonymity and accountability over the internet. There is no way to corroborate that the person posting on that blog is an actual employee of valve. All the information presented has been relatively common knowledge amongst players of LoL and HoN for several months, after a Gosu Gamers article revealed Ismail’s employment connections with other developers (http://www.gosugamers.net/starcraft/thread/580372-icefrog-developed-hon). Considering that this website was created alongside Valve’s announcement of Dota 2, I think this is probably corporate counterspin from a rival developer.
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