Blizzard designer Jonny Ebbert(if you remember him, he is formerly from Relic, worked on Dawn of War II) stated that the DOTA mod that was showcased at last years BlizzCon using the editing tool of StarCraft has been 'flattened'. He said to Eurogamer that "What we showed at the original BlizzCon, we've completely flattened it since then and completely rebooted it because we just thought, there's more we can question on this". What he means is that it's probably being streamlined to meet Blizzard's quality bar or modern day RTS standards and make it more accessible to newcomers. It also means it's probably not going to make it this year. It looks likely that the DOTA mod will launch together with StarCraft 2 Heart of The Swarm which is assumed to be out sometime next year(2012). I'm not going to make a more accurate estimation... simply because... It's Blizzard.
Source: Eurogamer
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