Lors de sa rencontre avec les journalistes de PC Gamer, Gabe Newell a déclaré avoir joué à DotA 2 environ 800 heures. Le jeu serait tellement génial que même après avoir passé des heures à bosser dessus, les développeurs passeraient leur nuit à s'éclater. Voilà, c'était la news inutile du jour.
I've played Dota 2 for about 800 hours. The cool thing about Dota 2 is that it's probably the game that we've made that we're most obsessed with playing. As a games developer, you tend to get pretty tired of the thing that you're developing, because you had to experience all the flaws and the difficulties all along. You sort of reach the point where you're like « Let's just be done with this. » Dota 2? Every day, after we're done working on the game, everyone goes home and plays it till 2 or 3 in the morning.
Gabe Newell, co-fondateur et directeur de Valve