Why was Skeleton king replaced?

[Daj mi Mydło]

im not veteran of this game i first played it like 2 years ago and i didn't even knew there was a skeleton king hero and he was removed form the game that's what bothers me why i mean he looked better than current wraith king why was he replaced?

[Woody]

Copyright issues.

[Daj mi Mydło]

more details like im srsly curious about this whole situation

[Woody]

Well DotA was a mod made from warcraft 3 using their game engine and models, after sometime one of the people in charge of DotA tried to kill it and then set up League of Legends instead. DotA survied and eventually Dota 2 came out under valve despite blizzards many atttempts to sue them to stop comepetion coming out, later on they decided that Skeleton King was too similar to the DotA model which they had the rights to so valve had to change the model to Wraith King.

[Archmage MC]

Blizzard being ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ because their profits were drying up like crazy and are still drying up. VALVe being smart, just said. "ok, whatever. We were going to redesign him anyway" to spite them.

It'll just take awhile for them to burn through those billions they made from WoW during WotLK era. Losing 300mil/mo from WoW revenue and they still haven't learned how to make games nor was anyone fired for such a fiasco.

[Daj mi Mydło]

ohhh thanks right i forgot that dota 2 was first in warcraft 3 mod ehh you could say blizzard is some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ company for doing this

[GniQQ]

Originally posted by Woody:

Well DotA was a mod made from warcraft 3 using their game engine and models, after sometime one of the people in charge of DotA tried to kill it and then set up League of Legends instead. DotA survied and eventually Dota 2 came out under valve despite blizzards many atttempts to sue them to stop comepetion coming out, later on they decided that Skeleton King was too similar to the DotA model which they had the rights to so valve had to change the model to Wraith King.

You couldn't be more incorrect. In fact, Dota2 was taken by Valve because the people left to do Dota "1" were refused by Blizzard on multiple occasions. No such nonsense as "they tried to sue them against competition" :D

[Woody]

Originally posted by ÖregGameR:

Originally posted by Woody:

Well DotA was a mod made from warcraft 3 using their game engine and models, after sometime one of the people in charge of DotA tried to kill it and then set up League of Legends instead. DotA survied and eventually Dota 2 came out under valve despite blizzards many atttempts to sue them to stop comepetion coming out, later on they decided that Skeleton King was too similar to the DotA model which they had the rights to so valve had to change the model to Wraith King.

You couldn't be more incorrect. In fact, Dota2 was taken by Valve because the people left to do Dota "1" were refused by Blizzard on multiple occasions. No such nonsense as "they tried to sue them against competition" :D

Next time do a quick google before necroing a 3 year old thread to make yourself look like a fool. It’s well documented blizzard sued valve over Dota.