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Wysp
Canada2299 Posts
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StoRm_res
Switzerland891 Posts
On October 04 2012 03:43 Wysp wrote: i want next patch so bad... trying to not log in till its up that should not be a problem, since the servers are down anyway ^^ And I was just pudging it up man ^^ | ||
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r.Evo
Germany14081 Posts
On October 04 2012 02:59 Firebolt145 wrote: It was first coined by a chap called HunteR_ that started many Dota 1 leagues. He promised great things, only to go back on his word and disappear each time. He was a really dodgy figure that people grew to distrust greatly and so no one wants to use a term he came up with. Secondly, it barely describes Dota as a game. Multiplayer Online Battle Arena? Doesn't that describe almost every online game? Valve have written a short blurb on this but I cbf to find it. Valve themselves calls DotA 2 a "MOBA" in their press releases. So... yeah. | ||
Firebolt145
Lalalaland34510 Posts
On October 04 2012 03:55 r.Evo wrote: Valve themselves calls DotA 2 a "MOBA" in their press releases. So... yeah. Initially they were against the term. I suspect as time passed they decided to stop fighting it and embrace a term that sadly many people now recognise without knowing its origins. | ||
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
On October 04 2012 03:05 BlitzerSC wrote: That's the point. MOBA is a generic term which can be used to describe every single multiplayer game that has been made. So can RTS, but people still use it to talk about certain games. So long as the game is played in real time, pretty much every game on the market has some strategy involved so why aren't all games RTS? My point is that no genre is a good description so none of them should be. It has a certain connotation that people understand even though the denotation is not descriptive at all and it doesn't need to be. As long as people understand the connotation of the word they'll know what you're talking about, and people have coined the term moba. | ||
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PopcornColonel
United States769 Posts
On October 04 2012 03:55 r.Evo wrote: Valve themselves calls DotA 2 a "MOBA" in their press releases. So... yeah. Source? | ||
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Spicy_Curry
United States10573 Posts
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r.Evo
Germany14081 Posts
On October 04 2012 03:58 Firebolt145 wrote: Initially they were against the term. I suspect as time passed they decided to stop fighting it and embrace a term that sadly many people now recognise without knowing its origins. It's a plain issue of marketing. Valve tried to push for the word "ARTS" as something that's opposing the word moba to differentiate themselves from what else is out there. Then they realized the word moba is too much integrated into peoples head already so they adapted. At this point bashing the word for some ancient history doesn't make a whole lot of sense, it's here, it's accepted by the industry, deal with it. =P ALSO SERVERS QQQQQ | ||
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Nobu
Spain550 Posts
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Cool Cat
United States1644 Posts
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r.Evo
Germany14081 Posts
Valve news page. Quoted all their usages of the word "MOBA" in this post here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=255901¤tpage=191#3819 | ||
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Firebolt145
Lalalaland34510 Posts
On October 04 2012 04:00 r.Evo wrote: It's a plain issue of marketing. Valve tried to push for the word "ARTS" as something that's opposing the word moba to differentiate themselves from what else is out there. Then they realized the word moba is too much integrated into peoples head already so they adapted. At this point bashing the word for some ancient history doesn't make a whole lot of sense, it's here, it's accepted by the industry, deal with it. =P ALSO SERVERS QQQQQ Yeah that's pretty much it. I personally don't hold any thing against the term, bleh. The origins suck but whatever, doesn't bother me. | ||
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Qbek
Poland12923 Posts
On October 04 2012 04:01 r.Evo wrote: Valve news page. Quoted all their usages of the word "MOBA" in this post here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=255901¤tpage=191#3819 Yeah good job quoting stuff from kotaku and other websites >.> I personally really hate the sound f the term, sounds like a mob, very negative | ||
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Kaniol
Poland5551 Posts
On October 04 2012 02:56 CrazyF1r3f0x wrote: I'm genuinely curious; why do so many DotA players hate the word "MOBA"? I think it's because they're used to DOTA being the only game of the genre, so no genre name was used for a looooong time. Then they make weird arguments against MOBA because "most games are multiplayer online and take place in some kind of battle arena". Even though StarCraft is an e-sport and yet noone claims that it is the game ganre as FIFA or other sports games. And Quake 3 is a real-time game where players use various strategies and yet it isn't considered to be RTS. Don't worry about them, keep using the MOBA word instead of "DOTA-like" or "DOTA-clone" (unless you are the kind of person that calls StarCraft "dune2-like" or "dune2-clone" instead of RTS). Sooner or later people will adapt to this short acronym | ||
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Skullflower
United States3779 Posts
On October 04 2012 04:01 r.Evo wrote: Valve news page. Quoted all their usages of the word "MOBA" in this post here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=255901¤tpage=191#3819 I'm pretty sure those are pulled off other websites. In fact, one of them is actually an article name on Rock, Paper, Shotgun. | ||
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BeMannerDuPenner
Germany5638 Posts
On October 04 2012 04:07 Kaniol wrote: I think it's because they're used to DOTA being the only game of the genre, so no genre name was used for a looooong time. Then they make weird arguments against MOBA because "most games are multiplayer online and take place in some kind of battle arena". Even though StarCraft is an e-sport and yet noone claims that it is the game ganre as FIFA or other sports games. And Quake 3 is a real-time game where players use various strategies and yet it isn't considered to be RTS. Don't worry about them, keep using the MOBA word instead of "DOTA-like" or "DOTA-clone" (unless you are the kind of person that calls StarCraft "dune2-like" or "dune2-clone" instead of RTS). Sooner or later people will adapt to this short acronym and in the end who cares anyways. i remember some nex wars and unit arenas in bw that were basicly dota, kill main building, improve units, get credits for killing. get angry over a weird genre name is beyond pointless. | ||
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r.Evo
Germany14081 Posts
On October 04 2012 04:03 Qbek wrote: Yeah good job quoting stuff from kotaku and other websites >.> I personally really hate the sound f the term, sounds like a mob, very negative Right click DotA 2. View News. Sorry, didn't know Valve links content they disapprove of. | ||
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Qbek
Poland12923 Posts
On October 04 2012 04:27 r.Evo wrote: Right click DotA 2. View News. Sorry, didn't know Valve links content they disapprove of. It works on tags lol | ||
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EtherealBlade
660 Posts
On October 04 2012 04:07 Kaniol wrote: I think it's because they're used to DOTA being the only game of the genre, so no genre name was used for a looooong time. Then they make weird arguments against MOBA because "most games are multiplayer online and take place in some kind of battle arena". Even though StarCraft is an e-sport and yet noone claims that it is the game ganre as FIFA or other sports games. And Quake 3 is a real-time game where players use various strategies and yet it isn't considered to be RTS. Don't worry about them, keep using the MOBA word instead of "DOTA-like" or "DOTA-clone" (unless you are the kind of person that calls StarCraft "dune2-like" or "dune2-clone" instead of RTS). Sooner or later people will adapt to this short acronym I see "MOBA" as an euphemism for dota clone. The term's purpose is so LoL and others could advertise themselves without referring to the original game, DotA never referred to itself as a "MOBA". Similarly, heroes were never referred to as "champions". | ||
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NB
Netherlands12045 Posts
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