Nexon and Valve Partner to Launch Dota 2 in Korea and Japan

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TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NEXON Co., Ltd. (3659.TO) (“Nexon”), a worldwide leader in free-to-play online games, today announced an agreement with Valve Corporation, a leading entertainment software and technology company based in the United States, to publish Dota 2 in Korea and Japan. Dota 2, developed by Valve with legendary designer IceFrog, is the sequel to the genre defining game that has become one of the most played games in the world and a leading title at e-sports tournaments around the w

... Valve... AND NEXON?!

...What. No seriously...what. Okay, this is a joke, haha. Alright, where are the cameras?

Well, those are two names I thought I'd never see together in a serious sentence.

As long as they are only the PUBLISHERS is all fine for me...

do people not realize this isn't the first time nexon worked with valve. Nexon works on Counter Strike Online with them, which isnt a totally true sequel to counterstrike series but counterstrike none the less.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike_Online

>maplestory on steam
>dungeon fighter on steam
>vindictus on steam
>combat arms on steam

you guys are honestly surprised that the gaben's taking advantage of a profitable situation?

They're nothing but publishers, Nexon has no say in balance nor anything in that regard.
So whatever.


Store will remain cosmetic and balance remains in the hands of IceFrog.
Only thing left for nexon is publishing and customer support.

I mean, Perfect world will be publishing it in China after all. And the different servers will be able to play with eachother internationally, so the gameplay and so on will be the same for everyone, really.

... Valve... AND NEXON?!

Well, those are two names I thought I'd never see together in a serious sentence.

Counterstrike was published by Nexon in Japan, remember Justin?

Counterstrike was published by Nexon in Japan, remember Justin?

To be honest, I completely forgot it existed. lol

Korea is so LoL-dominated and PC Gaming isn't even that big in Japan. I wonder how this will go.

Valve is going to lose money =/. LoL got way too popular.

Valve is going to lose money =/. LoL got way too popular.

Since when was one game mutually exclusive? Not to talk about the fact that there exists a korean DotA community too.
I am pretty sure valve knows what they're doing in regards to business. I mean why would they seek out Nexon to publish it if they could see already that there was no money in it? They have probably put thought into it.