| ▲ | danschuller 13 hours ago |
| No many hit games started as mods. League of Legends is the one that immediately jumps to mind, but I know there are many more coming from Quake and Doom mods etc. |
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| ▲ | Matl 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Famously Counter Strike as well. |
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| ▲ | charcircuit 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| League of Legends is its own game built on an engine Riot made from scratch. |
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| ▲ | pseudo0 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | League's Wikipedia page describes it as "inspired by Defense of the Ancients, a custom map for Warcraft III." I believe they also hired some of the core Dota devs to work on League. I guess if you want to be pedantic it was a custom map, but that was more a consequence of WC3 lacking support for mods. They ended up having to work around a lot of limitations to make Dota work in the custom map framework. | | |
| ▲ | bogdan 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | They hired a former dev, guinsoo. At the time when LoL was announced dota was being developed by icefrog for a few good solid years already. Most of dota's popularity happened during icefrog's years. Icefrog later joined valve and helped create Dora 2. | | |
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