Dota 2: Variety in Games

The main game

The video game is a MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) style game in a 5 versus 5 where players can queue into a match where the objective is to destroy the enemy teams Core of the base known as the Ancient and in order to do that the players must collect gold to buy items and make themselves stronger and these items can give you upgrades ranging from base stats, to changing your ability(s) or providing an ability through an item and in order to get gold the players must kill and kill monsters in the jungle or the minions that push the lanes with towers towards the Ancient throughout the game or get an advantage by killing the enemy player which scales the reward based on the opponents performance throughout the game in terms of level difference and bounty of the number of players killed without dying.

Release of the game

Ever since its release by Valve; the video game Dota 2 has immediately gained popularity from people across the world and brought players from an earlier version named DotA (Defense of the Ancients) which was originally a mod for Warcraft III which gave it a lot of publicity for newer players.

Another large reason the game grew during its release was because of the beta key method which if you were lucky you received a beta key from the steam community bot and had access to or had to wait later down the line where they allowed to buy a key through the dota2 website although many didn’t purchase as the beta key was like a virus which if someone received a key; while playing they would have received more keys which were found in their steam inventory and sharing these gifts and keys the number of players would spread and multiply rapidly giving the chance for new players to learn and be introduced towards the moba genre.

Dota Arcade

Due to the games vast number of items and abilities in the game with various effects; Valve has created a menu and opportunity to create and outcomes the game has grew to create a community to inspire people to use those mechanics and assets to create their own minigames to share with the community and play with your friends and enables creators to edit the characters' skills which can completely rework a character to their idea or create a whole new game with only using the characters and inspired skills which creators share the community where they can use their original game knowledge to transfer it towards the made minigame which many players use their favorite heroes(characters) or play with friends and in some of these minigames cause a breakthrough as a popular game mode in League of Legends named; Teamfight Tactics has been inspired by one of the biggest Dota 2 Arcade games known as 'Auto Chess' which has grew immensely and brought players from both the Dota 2 and League of Legends community and shows that if someone creates a fun minigame for the community and it can go a long way.