What is MOBA? Why Players Hate This Word?
A brief introduction
MOBA Games, known as Multi-Player Battle Arena games, allow players to engage with multiple players online, such as DOTA2, and League of Legends (LOL).
Ten players separate into two groups to play as heroes in one arena. The team who firstly push down the last enemies’ tower would be the winner.
In 2003, DOTA and 3C were just the RPG maps created in WarCraft 3. These maps were embryonic forms of MOBA. Then, MOBA gradually became the terminology for this genre after some staff from DOTA went to Valve and Riot Games and produced DOTA2 and LOL.
However, people hate calling them MOBA, why?
Not all multiplayer games are MOBA.
Other genres of games, like CS, are multiplayer battle First Person Shooter (FPS) games, so players believe MOBA can not represent for DOTA-Like games.
MOBA was created by Riot Games.
MOBA was called DOTA-Like before LOL was published by Riot Games. Riot Games replaced DOTA-Like into MOBA when some game designers went to Riot Games from Valve. Many loyal DOTA players believe LOL was just “copying and pasting”. This is not acceptable for those old DOTA players.
MOBA was not created by players.
Game terminologies are created by all players, but Riot Games created MOBA by itself. DOTA hardcore players believe Riot Games forces them to accept MOBA. However, I think, defining MOBA was the promotion for LOL, and it was successful at that time, which means there was a huge number of players who could still accept this word.
