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来自《DotA-Allstars.com》创造者Pendragon的一封信

DotA-Allstars.com的访问者,

你们有些人可能认识我;现在你们很多人可能都不知道了。这个网站诞生于2004年10月14日。那时我刚满18岁，这是我做的第一个网站。Guinsoo是首席开发者(在《Icefrog》之前)，《DotA》没有竞争场景，只有5%的玩家。

在接下来的几年里，该网站从一个只有3万用户的小论坛，变成了一个每月访问量超过100万、每天页面浏览量超过100万、员工超过100名志愿者的大型社区。发现那些无私奉献自己的时间为他人创造积极体验的人的慷慨，真是令人难以置信。

2008年夏天，我第一次在现实生活中见到桂洙。他和他的老板在城里，他们想见面，一起出去吃牛排(我怎么能拒绝呢!?)我很快了解到他们正在开发一款基于《DotA》的游戏，不受《魔兽争霸III》引擎和战网的限制。在与他们会面几个月后，在多次前往他们的办公室了解更多项目情况后，我加入了Riot Games团队，致力于《英雄联盟》的开发。

当我在2008年9月第一次加入团队时，我最初的意图是全职为英雄联盟工作，并在Icefrog离开后继续将DotA allstars.com建设成一个令人惊讶的繁荣的DotA社区。

虽然我最初打算在这封信中省略这一点，但鉴于这一信息现在已经公开，我认为有必要澄清事实。很多人认为冰蛙离开是因为我想商业化，而他没有。事实上，我了解到Icefrog曾秘密地为S2Games工作，在他召开了一系列会议之后，他试图向一些公司(包括Riot)出售一个完整的DotA游戏概念。我们之间的意见分歧只是因为我选择对我正在做的项目和我的职业发展方向保持透明和诚实。

在制作并发布《英雄联盟》后，我开始意识到——除了再也没有空闲时间之外——有了《英雄联盟》我就不再拥有曾经驱使我的对DotA的热情了。

网站的流量开始慢慢下降，停留在现在的水平(大约是一年前的50%)，我最近意识到我必须做出一个决定。我可以继续说我要把网站重建成一个强大的DotA社区，知道我的心并不在里面，或者我可以把网站存档，结束我将近6年的人生篇章，我已经投入了数千个小时。最终，我相信这里正确的决定是不要欺骗自己，认为这个网站将被重建成它曾经的样子，并将我的全部注意力和时间转移到我的新项目上，着眼于未来。

这个网站和DotA社区将永远在我心中占据特殊的位置。和这么多优秀的人一起工作是一段很棒的经历，我对社区、人们，乃至我自己都有了很多了解。值得感谢的人比我记得的要多——所以我不会把任何人排除在外，我只想感谢在过去几年里为这个网站做过志愿者或贡献的人，以及所有帮助这个网站成为世界上最重要的DotA网站之一的人。

该网站将在未来一周左右关闭，同时数据库将被转移到新的永久地点，在那里，其内容将继续存档，并为了历史保护而向公众开放。

与此同时，我希望你们中的一些人能和我以及其他300多万玩家一起玩一款《英雄联盟》(它是免费的!)

如果你想与我联系，你可以通过以下方式与我联系:

目的:Gippis

MSN: DotA-Allstars@hotmail.com

电子邮件:Pendragon@dota-allstars.com

真诚地,

潘德拉贡

以上翻译结果来自有道神经网络翻译（YNMT）· 通用领域

原文:

A letter from Pendragon, creator of DotA-Allstars.com

DotA-Allstars.com Visitor,

Some of you may know me; many of you probably won’t these days. This website was born on October 14th, 2004. It was a mere 2 months after I turned 18, and it was the first website I’d ever made. Guinsoo was the lead developer (before Icefrog), DotA had no competitive scene and maybe 5% of the players that it does today.

In the years that followed, the site turned from a small forum with only 30,000 users to a massive community with over a million visitors every month, a million page views every day, and a staff of over 100 volunteers. It’s been incredible discovering the generosity of individuals who selflessly donate their time to create a positive experience for others.

In the summer of 2008, I met Guinsoo in real life for the first time. He and his boss were in town and they wanted to meet up and go out for a steak, (how could I say no!?). I soon learned that they were working on a game based on DotA, free from all of the limitations of the Warcraft III engine and Battle.net. Several months after meeting them and after several trips to their offices to learn more about the project, I joined the Riot Games team working on League of Legends.

When I first joined the team in September of 2008, my original intent was to work on League of Legends full time and continue to build DotA-Allstars.com into an awesome thriving DotA community after Icefrog’s departure.

While I originally intended to leave this out of this letter, in light of the fact that this information is now out in the open, I think it’s important to set the record straight. Many believe that Icefrog left because I wanted to commercialize, and he did not. In reality – I had learned that Icefrog had been secretly working for S2Games after conducting a series of meetings where he was attempting to sell a full DotA game concept to a number of companies (including Riot). The differences of opinion that we had were merely that I chose to be transparent and honest about the project that I was working on, and the direction my career was going.

After working on and launching LoL, I began to realize that – in addition to having no free time anymore – with LoL available to play I no longer possessed the passion for DotA which once drove me.

The traffic on the website slowly began to decline, settling where it’s at now (about 50% of where it was a year ago), and I recently realized that I had a decision to make. I could either continue to say that I would rebuild the website as a strong DotA community, knowing that my heart wasn’t really in it, or I could archive the site, ending an almost 6 year chapter of my life that I’ve invested thousands of hours into. Ultimately I believe that the right decision here is to not trick myself into thinking that this site will be rebuilt into what it once was, and to shift my full focus and time to my new project, with an eye towards the future.

This website and the DotA community will always hold a special place in my heart. It’s been an amazing experience working with so many wonderful people and gaining so much insight about communities, people, and ultimately myself. There are more people deserving of thanks than I could possibly remember – so rather than leaving anyone out, I’ll simply thank everyone who has volunteered or contributed to this site over the last few years, and everyone who helped make it one of the premier DotA websites in the world.

The website will be offline for the next week or so while the database is moved to its new permanent home where its contents will remain archived and available to the public for the sake of historical preservation.

In the meantime, I hope some of you will join me and over 3 million other players for a game of League of Legends (it’s free!)

Should you wish to contact me, you can reach me at:
AIM: Gippis
MSN: DotA-Allstars@hotmail.com
Email: Pendragon@dota-allstars.com

Sincerely,
Pendragon