Today, "DOTA2" has celebrated its 12th anniversary, and "DOTA", which has opened the MOBA game type, has been born for 22 years.Officials released purple posters to commemorate the moment.

TI14, the international invitational tournament of "DOTA2" this year, happens to be a purple theme, jointly organized by V Club and PGL, located in Hamburg, Germany, with a prize pool of US$1.6 million. It started on September 4 and ended on September 14, with a total of 16 teams participating.

"Dota 2" is a free multiplayer online combat competitive game developed by V Club, which was released on July 9, 2013.In 2011, Dota 2 began testing on Windows platforms. Its predecessor, DotA, is a custom game map in Warcraft 3 and the extended version of Frozen Throne.As of June 2019, Dota 2 supports Windows systems, MacOS systems and Linux systems.Dota 2 is one of the most active games on the Steam platform, with the highest number of online users exceeding 1.2 million.

The development of Dota 2 began in 2009, when IceFrog, who was employed by Valve, was the leading designer of Dota modules at the time.In September 2015, Dota 2 was updated from the Source engine to the Source 2 engine and became the first game to use this engine.

Netizen: I really miss the DOTA2 scene at that time