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Re:Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active player... by haunter on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:28PM (#27055293)
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Re:Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active player... by SAI_Peregrinus on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:29PM (#27055314)
Neither is an RTS. They're MOBAs.
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Re:Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active player... by vaylian on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:47PM (#27055599)
True. But these Mobas are descendants og these RTSs. WarCraft 3 gave birth to Dota 1. StarCraft 1 had the Aeon of Strife map.
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Re:Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active player... by redisman on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:50PM (#27058976)
Sure but mobas are much closer to action RPGs than RTS games in the actual game experience. The origin story as a mod for a RTS is interesting but doesn’t lock in the genre
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Re:Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active player... by the_lonely_road on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:31PM (#27055330)
I guess it wasn't clear but he is talking about RTS games of which your examples are MOBA games and would not apply.
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Re:Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active player... by idle_zealot on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:31PM (#27055336)
DOTA and LoL are not RTS games; they’re MOBAs.
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Re:Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active player... by dgritsko on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:30PM (#27055318)
Those are MOBAs, not RTS.
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