It was put ”back up in the shop” where Blizzard did ”some massive overhauls”, which they won’t discuss. There’s no word if it requires Heart of the Swarm to play.
”We basically put it back up in the shop and did some massive overhauls to some things, which I’m not going to go into specific detail about,” Sigaty said. DotA is a much beloved community developed mod which is getting the official Blizzard treatment.
It’s based off the original Warcraft 3 DotA mod that’s maintained today by IceFrog. It will import all the heroes and other assets into StarCraft II when it releases. Will it require a copy of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm to play?
“We’re not even talking about the business level decision of it at this point,” he said. The second chapter to StarCraft II is expected to release somewhere in 2012’s calendar. DotA was one of four mods announced by Blizzard last year at BlizzCon.
