Games in Asia: Before we started Games in Asia last fall, I wasn’t really following the MOBA gaming scene. I had heard of Dota and League of Legends, of course, but the genre didn’t interest me too much and, to be honest, I was a bit put off by the reputation the MOBA gaming community has for being, well, jerks.
Obviously, I’ve since taken up League of Legends, and although it was just for work at first, I quite enjoy it. We’ve already got Xairylle writing Dota 2 content, so between the two of us we can now write knowledgeably about two of the most popular games in Asia.
But I have to say, after my months of immersion in the MOBA scene, the community’s reputation for negative is pretty well-deserved. And I’m not just talking about the harsh way new (or bad) players are treated in LoL and Dota, I’m talking about the way the LoL and Dota communities treat each other.
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