An Excerpt in Online Gaming

Adolescent in this age, people needs to learn and experience things that are part of growing up for them to be knowledgeable and ready to face the next step of life. Playing games is one of the most common things that people at this age engage to and DOTA is one of the most famous for most of the boys and even girls. DOTA is an online game, also played into a computer DOTA is a multiplayer online battle arena mod for the video game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its expansion, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, based on the “Aeon of Strife” map for StarCraft. The objective of the scenario is for each team to destroy the opponents’ Ancient, heavily guarded structures at opposing corners of the map. Players use the powerful units known as heroes, and are assisted by allied heroes and AI-controlled fighters. As in role-playing games, players level up their heroes and use gold to buy equipment during the mission.

The scenario was developed with the “World Editor” of Reign of Chaos, and was updated upon the release of its expansion, The Frozen Throne. There have been many variations of the original concept; the most popular being FOTA Allstars, which eventually was simplified to DOTA with the release of version 6.68. This specific scenario has been maintained by several authors during development, the latest of whom being the anonymous developer known as “Ice Frog” developing the game since 2005.

Since its original release, DOTA has become a feature at several worldwide tournaments, including Blizzard entertainment’s BLizzCom and the Asian World Cyber Games , as well as the Cyberathlete Amateur and CyberEvolution leagues Gamasutra declared that DotA was perhaps the most popular "free, non-supported game mod in the world". DOTA is largely attributed to being the most significant inspiration for the multiplayer online battle arena genre.