Yes, yes! Oh, yes!

[Madame Adequate]

WCIII's community is very much largely composed of DotA players, which is more or less only using the WCIII base engine and level design as the basis of the game. Otherwise, it is the most heavily played map in UMS, and there's at least 75% of the gaming list being filled with DotA games. I'm not sure if that's changed on Europe or West, but it is certainly true on East, and fro what I have heard, Europe has a higher quality of DotA loyalty. Additionally, various and numerous mods have been released for Starcraft and Diablo II. SC's LotRishes maps were going very strong from 2001 until about 2005 or 2006, with a new map every few weeks or so; not to mention there's been a serious number of mods, and the mapping community I was once a part of is still going strong. DII has Dark Alliance (in a Beta, one Act version that has been in development for over five years), Median, and others, which are actual mods.

Yeah, see, I'm not denying that the mods exist, that they can be excellent, or that they are important to a sector of gamers. I just think it's pretty funny to see claims like nobody cares about the base games.

SC: Ghost was dead before it hit the ground.

And yeah, nobody cared when Ghost was cancelled.