Icefrog：Dota2开放测试在即 会尽快完善游戏

向大家问个好！

我们已经有一段时间没发消息了。和以往一样，每当我们推出新的东西并且从各位那里获得反馈的时候，我们都学到了很多。DotA2在德国比赛的首次亮相给我们带来了很多值得好好咀嚼消化的反馈意见，同时，近期很多论坛关于内测信息泄露的帖子也增多了。经过深思熟虑，我们决定对原有计划做一些调整。

我们原本的计划是把明年用于测试游戏，同时加入新的特性，并且慢慢的增加英雄的数量，直到英雄和DotA1一样，到那个时候我们才会全球范围内同步推出DotA2。然而我们从任何地方得到的反馈都是，尽管还有很多英雄都没完成，人们还是想玩这个游戏。我们同样发现了有的已经获得了测试资格的朋友在别人面前炫耀他们从游戏中获得的乐趣，让别人十分羡慕。因此，我们决定让原计划作废。

新计划如下：我们将会把现在的DotA2，也就是在德国比赛大家看到的那个DotA2尽快的完善，并且以最快的速度推出。我们在游戏的一些地方还有一些工作要做，所以在一段时间内(希望不会太长)我们会停留在邀请测试阶段。然而对于玩家的行为，我们不会有任何限制——意思是他们可以发截图，做视频，直播比赛，写攻略，拿游戏的界面风格开玩笑等，任何他们想做的都能做。而当他们享受游戏的乐趣的时候，我们也会按照计划逐步增加英雄数量，并且增加我们正在开发的一些新特性，并且随着更多的反馈，我们也会逐步优化现有游戏的内容。

这对各位来说有什么意义呢？这不仅意味着各位能够加入我们的邀请名单，更重要的是，如果你有足够的才华，你可以去参加论坛举办的抢内测码活动。而一旦你拿到了游戏的内测码并且开始游戏，想对游戏做什么评价就尽管开口吧，我们很期待并且重视你的意见！

同时，我们也会开始更新这个官方博客，这样各位就可以从这里看到更多的日常报告了。

以下为原文：

We’ve been a bit quiet lately. As always, we learn a lot whenever we put something out and get feedback from you all. Showing Dota 2 to the world at The International gave us a lot of feedback to chew through, and the many recent forum threads talking about the information leaking out of the beta has added to the pile. After a bunch of thinking, we’ve decided to change our plans a little.

Our original plan was to spend the next year or so in beta, adding new features and slowly growing the number of heroes until we reached a level of parity with Dota 1, at which point we’d release Dota 2 to the world. But the feedback we’re seeing everywhere is that people just want to play it, even though there’s still a ton of heroes yet to be implemented. We’ve also seen that the folks who are already in the beta are chomping at the bit to show everyone else some of the fun games they’ve had. So we decided our original plan was dumb.

Welcome to the new plan: We’re going to take the current version of Dota 2, which has The International set of heroes, and get it out there as fast as we can. We’ve still got some work to do in a couple of areas, so we’ll be keeping it invite-only for a (hopefully short) period of time. But there’ll be no restrictions on what players can do with it – they can release screenshots, make movies, shoutcast matches, write guides, publicly make fun of our HUD, or anything else their hearts desire. While they do that, we’ll be shipping regular updates with more heroes, new features we’ve been working on, and improvements on the existing content as we get more and more feedback.

What does this mean for you? It means it’s even more important that you get on the list that we’ll be inviting from. If you’re talented, you could take a shot at winning an invite in the GosuGamers competition or the Playdota contest. Once you’ve got your hands on the game, feel free to talk about it however you’d like – we’re excited to see what you’ll produce.

In the meantime, we’re going to be ratcheting this blog up a little too, so you can expect some more regular posting from us.