How to call DotA-like games?

Well, I hear MOBA becoming more and more common, but there is a huge problem with that term... it doesnt necessarily have to be online. I think Aeon of Strife-like games is the best term for them.

Well, I hear MOBA becoming more and more common, but there is a huge problem with that term... it doesnt necessarily have to be online. I think Aeon of Strife-like games is the best term for them.

Maroxad

I would call them LAME, purely becausethey are lame and boring.

I would call them LAME, purely becausethey are lame and boring.

GTR12

dota & associated knock-offs

there we are all you bases covered.

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I would call them LAME, purely because they are lame and boring.

Pokemaster1337

Got any proof of that number?

DotA was ok at best, but its just got boring after 2-3 rounds.

I still call them DotA clones.

Got any proof of that number?

GTR12

Why would that matter? You don't like the genre. Just stay away from topics like these.

I have seen league of legends in the top 3 of alot of the main game activity trackers, and it's popularity has doubled multiple times in the time i have played it according to the dev. Which seems legit considering the server strain issues they have encountered in that time period.

On topic: I never really understood the reason for using game titles to describe a game type rather than a genre/sub-genre. So i use the term MOBA.

According to Blizzard, it's called Tug-of-War.

For people who actually played a lot of WC3 they were called AoS maps.

Aeon of Strife in StarCraft 1 was the orignal.