Announcement of Artifact

During the 2017 International DOTA 2 Championships, developer Valve Software announced a new game; called Artifact.

Artifact is a card game based on DOTA 2, involving three boards and a selection of characters from Valve's flagship game, though other details remain light. The game was announced just before the final match of Day 2 of TI7 by event host Sean "Day9" Plott, who gave a vague description of the game, that seemed to indicate it would involve building barracks, creeps, and lanes (after suggesting the announcement was not related to DOTA 2). Comparisons to Blizzard’s Hearthstone were inevitable.

Reaction
The announcement was met with negative reactions from Valve fans (with DOTA fans themselves even joining in) and gamers for shifting the game genre into a very likely digital card game.

When the reveal trailer was uploaded to YouTube, it received 57,376 dislikes on its debut day (It had 75,366 dislikes in the last consultation, unfortunately YouTube no longer shows the number of diskiles since 2021, but there are probably many more dislikes).

When the reveal trailer was shown at the DOTA 2 Championships, there were merciless "awws" in dissapointment and boos from the crowd, with one audience member even shouting "Give us Half-Life 3!"

Many people are now believing that DOTA 2 & Artifact or anything related to DOTA, in general, killed the Half-Life franchise and ruining more potential non-DOTA and Counter-Strike single-player/multi-player games in future, with Artifact 's announcement being a final "F**k you!" to the series' fans and would likely create 'schism' in fanbase of either or not leaving Valve altogether to move on to other video gaming companies. This also gave immediate proof that Valve is now milking DOTA way more than the Counter-Strike series, they don't care about making new games that the fans will enjoy, and they would rather sell out.

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