DOTA 2: The Icefrog Facts That Have Been Mysterious!

Who is Icefrog? Famous as one of the creators of the game Dota 2, the figure of IceFrog is still a mystery to date. No one ever knows the shape of his face or his real name. It is reportedly this one developer does have some kind of agreement with Valve to conceal his identity whether it's face shape, real name, even to the date of birth. But besides, what information do we know about Icefrog? Maybe this is some of them

He Is A 34-Year-Old Man

Although the figure is always mysterious, IceFrog is always open when talking about the development of Dota 2. So from that, he had opened a question and answer session at the most famous Dota forum in the days of Warcraft Dota, Playdota.com. The questions that were held on February 3, 2009 were mostly discussing games, but there was one personal question answered by IceFrog.

When asked who the identity of IceFrog actually, is this IceFrog community actually? Or just one person doing it all? He also replied that IceFrog is a 25-year-old who likes games and develops Defense of the Ancients.

Withdrawing Because of Bully Netizens

Maybe some of you are confused why IceFrog does not want to reveal his identity. But it turns out to have a calibration reason IceFrog do this is because the actions of the Dota community itself. As you know, Dota community or even internet users in general often do not know the limits.

So when it was IceFrog post cat photos in playdota.com forum. Intend to interact with the players, but Dota community even bullies himself all-out. Dota community when it feels IceFrog incompetent work Dota and even fun to play cat. From then on he no longer wants to surface, whether on the internet or in the real world.

Was Offered to Do Heroes of Newerth

Before finally, IceFrog worked with Valve to develop Dota 2, there was a time IceFrog was offered by S2 Games game developer Heroes of Newerth. Indeed, while still developing Defense of the Ancients in Warcraft III, there are many limitations that make IceFrog so can not make Dota like what he imagined.

Cooperation with S2 Games tipped to fail because IceFrog considers itself not in line with S2 Games, until finally, IceFrog invited Valve to develop Dota 2 in 2009.

Abdul Ismail is IceFrog?

Had circulated a rumor that IceFrog has the real name Abdul Ismail, thanks to a blog post from a Valve employee who was upset with the figure of Abdul Ismail. Even so the post is claimed to be a fake posting only by the representative of Valve.

But this name continues to appear in various matters related to Dota. The name Abdul Ismail appears in the Free to Play documentary credit title and also in the prosecution document regarding copyright ownership of Dota's name. Either hoax or not, but the information looks quite suspicious. In fact, Valve is still shut up about Abdul Ismail's relationship with IceFrog.

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