MOBA

Disputes have once again erupted on our portal. Why do some once-popular games displace others from the pedestal? And what should developers do to regain their former interest in their product? Starcraft: BW is trying to resurrect by offering bakers old-school gameplay, twelve units per group, slave breeding, and a 20% closer camera. The second part is overgrown with new skins and nice chips for donations, coquettishly trying to be like modern trendy free-to-play games. But the bakers stubbornly resist and drive them back into the graves with shovels. What is the reason for such cruelty? I believe that MOBA games are to blame for everything, which replaced the RTS and MMORPG that we loved, and firmly settled at the top of the popularity rating. Strict decoding of the abbreviation MOBA (Multijugador Online Battle Arena). And formally, SC, CS, and PvP in WOW fall under this genre. But to a wide range of gamers, MOBA games are known as "Creeps go from base to base, your team wants to destroy the enemy base, and you swing and buy items." To be specific and avoid confusion, by MOBA games we mean DOTA-like games: LoL, DOTA 2, HoTS, etc. The author himself spent the most time in DOTA 2.

What is the secret of their success?
Here are five successful decisions that brought MOBA to the top of the rankings. Fist and most important is that MOBA games are free to play. This is the name of the distribution concept, according to which anyone who can access the Internet and go through the registration procedure can play the game. For the money, they offer to buy only additional optional content that does not affect or slightly affects the gameplay, for example, skins. At one time, this was an extremely risky move for companies. Just imagine the amount of work:

- The development of the game

- Purchase and equip servers for multiplayer

- Invest serious money in marketing
- Have a support team of 24 hours to solve problems if they occur.

-Ban hackers and players that use cheats to become stronger or abuse the game.

-Host Locat and international games to earn money for furder investment and development of the game.

-Test and fix new patch updates of the game and also listen to what players say about the game!

-Support the game community for better understating the player's behavior and the need in gaming.

And all without any guarantee that someone will pay for the extra. content. But the risk was justified, and the free game was the best possible advertisement. Many people were able to just download Dota and immediately play online, not in a piece of the company, as in SC2, and not with level restrictions, as in an MMO, but immediately into a full-fledged battle! This gave people the most complete information and the opportunity to understand whether they want to play it or not. In games that are sold, as a rule, online is not too important in multiplayer. People have already paid for the content, the money has come in, and it's hard to get anything else out of it. In MOBA games online is the main indicator of project monetization. And 5 years after the release of the first part of Starcraft 2, Blizzard realized that this is a more correct way, and gradually introduces additional. content for the remaining players.