Blizzcon 2010 - Battle.net Interview Rob Pardo

I personally still like going to the stores to buy the games.You cant get collector's edition through digital download.

HoN is the only thing that beats Dota today i wonder if valve could actually compete with Dota and HoN

Took blizz too long to notice DOTA brand value, deal with it and hire your top modders faster in the future.

It seems that Blizzard's take on the DOTA situation is that any company (including themselves) trademarking the term DoTA is kind of a kick in the nuts to the mod community, not that there is an issue with creating a dota-like game. It's certainly a #$ck move to trademark it ahead of Blizzcon and without any discussion with Blizzard at all.

downloading games is a nice lazy way of getting ur games right away, but I still better like to have the box in my hand for collection or somthing

Sneaky move from Valve, can't say I blame them.

valve wants blizzard to share a piece of a pie.