Why no real RTS game?

[ElokoMs]

Why is Dota 2 only one map with a lot of heroes? I would really like to have a RTS like Warcraft. Dota 2 has a nice look, wonderful soundrack, heroes with background etc.
Why can't they add some factions and base building like in Warcraft or release a mod kit, so that people can create something, e.g. a campaign with heroes like the one of Rexxar.
We had a ton of RTS games with tanks, guns or future warfare, but only turn based fantasy games.
I think the setting of Dota 2 is perfect for a fantasy RTS game.

[TheRza]

this isnt warcraft or starcraft its dota and dota is moba and should stay that way for years to come you want play those games goto wc3 or sc2

[ElokoMs]

Escrito originalmente por TheRza:

this isnt warcraft or starcraft its dota and dota is moba and should stay that way for years to come you want play those games goto wc3 or sc2

Warcraft 3 is old, Starcraft 2 is Scifi. And those who want to play the current game can play their one map and the others could play the RTS part.

[BLYATRIDER]

DOTA is what you see and it always has been. Originally just a mod of an RTS.
dont like it? make your own.

[ElokoMs]

Escrito originalmente por ghostwitagun:

DOTA is what you see and it always has been. Originally just a mod of an RTS.
dont like it? make your own.

Doesn't mean someone couldn't extend it. Warcraft was an RTS before it became an MMorpG. And I don't have the skill to make my own game.

[BLYATRIDER]

well who knows what the future holds. since the mmorpg scene is saturated and quite boring right now dont expect anything anytime soon.

[Reiteration6]

Asking why Dota 2 isn't an RTS is like asking why CoD isn't one. There's no reason it should be, they're entirely different types of game.

Also, there are loads of fantasy RTS games.

[ElokoMs]

Escrito originalmente por Omniphobe:

Also, there are loads of fantasy RTS games.

Name some new from the last few years. (No turn based games.)

[CryHavoc&LetSlipTheCreepsOfWar]

There might be a map-editor option in the future, but this game isn't really about the map.

[Vel1kolepnii]

nice

[LukeWookiee]

w3 is still nice, no one want to make new rts games while blizz take all cake. Anyway saver is make adventure game or fps while game needs to be ported to console to bring real proffit

[Reiteration6]

Escrito originalmente por ElokoMs:

Name some new from the last few years. (No turn based games.)

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/europa-universalis-iv
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/citadels
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/frozen-hearth
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/fray
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/confrontation
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/crusader-kings-ii
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/dawn-of-fantasy
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/stronghold-3
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/king-arthur-fallen-champions

[Paroni]

Dota have been maded to moba not Rts

[Vayra]

This is what Dota is, it has never been an RTS, warcraft 3 was merely a framework to run the mod on, and it got popular enough to get its own standalone version.

So basically that RTS you mention already exists in terms of Warcraft 3, which has been rebalanced for years. I doubt there will ever be a similar RTS in fantasy setting with such balance and mechanics. It's definitely not within the capabilities of the indie developer-realm.

[Marokai]

i miss the good old RTS days with knights and archers.there where so many too.

but now Microsoft bought and destroyed the Age of empires makers and no one seems to make them anymore.
only hope is the new command and conquer ftp but its with tanks again

but there will be a new warcraft game someday

[Armgard]

Then.. get an rts game?

Escrito originalmente por ElokoMs:

I would really like to have a RTS like Warcraft.