Valve is pretty cool. Both their products and their internal policies.
And regarding Riot, their marketing is (was?) really shady.
And regarding Riot, their marketing is (was?) really shady.
If you're going to throw shade like this it'd be helpful to bring some examples, I have no idea what you're referring to so this contributes nothing to my understanding other than FUD.
Not long after launching LoL, Pendragon replaced the whole site, including: hero page descriptions, various Dota related web-tools, forum, etc., with a JPEG link thanking the Dota community for all the fish and pointing everyone to the LoL site.
He released the forum database available 5 years later, I think, when it didn't matter anymore.
The LoL advertising during the early period was extremely Dota-hostile. Dota 1 had its flaws, but they were basically pissing all over it.
Tournaments where LoL was played were paid to ban any kind of LoL competitors (generally aimed directly at Dota 2).
Etc., etc.
Here's a video that goes in depth if y'all are wondering what this is about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBI9NlPqRi0
Thankfully it doesn't matter anyway, because Dota 2 is simply a better game ;)
https://web.archive.org/web/20100712013033/http://www.dota-a...
The wayback machine is great. I heard these rummors years ago and they never stop. Look up the site from whatever date you want. Mescon closed allstars.com on July 22, 2010 citing dropping statistics and his love of League of Legends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_the_Ancients
DoTA -Allstars is a variant of DoTA and had been passed down from one person to the next in development and is stil developed by IceFrog at Valve.
Guess what... he released it when LoL was entrenched, a few years later. That's how you can see my profile, on a tribute site where someone imported the database dump.
But at that point the community had already left and the valuable Dota web property was used to ramp up LoL. LoL would have made it without it, but these tactics where shady.
Altered Truths?