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Message: [QUOTE="Ibbie, post: 345889, member: 102017"] I've been playing MOBAs since my teen years, started back in the Warcraft 3 days with DOTA Allstars, then moved on to Dota 2 and League of Legends. I originally came from RTS games, so discovering that style of gameplay by accident felt amazing. The mix of strategy, teamwork, and mechanical skill was unlike anything else, and for a long time I was hooked. That said, I totally get where you're coming from. These days, I find it a lot harder to get back into MOBAs for the same reasons you mentioned. The community can be really intense and can go berserk over the most minuscule thing. The games have become so meta-driven that it feels less like you're playing for fun and more like you’re trying to meet expectations by some pro players that has a bigger foothold in the game than the casual player. It's like choosing your favorite character and then get dunked on and told 'his not meta' and it's a free lose. Even when people aren’t outright toxic, there’s this pressure to already know everything, from the roles, builds, rotations, and that can kill the enjoyment fast. People say there are always going to be bad actors in online video games, but in MOBAs it's a common occurrence that if they see you doing something wrong, they'll just throw the game and blame you for everything. It really was a complete buzzkill and since then gave up on playing those kinds of games. In other words, the competitiveness that made it so exciting back then also makes it exhausting and stressful now, tainting the atmosphere of the game and robbing the life out it. I think a lot of people who’ve been around the genre for a while can relate, it’s just a very demanding space to enjoy casually. [/QUOTE]

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