The MOBA age has made us soft. The genre grew out of the classic real-time strategy beatdowns of the 1990s and early 2000s: StarCraft, Command & Conquer, and Age of Empires. But rather than controlling an unruly hoard of chattel troops – who throw themselves against enemy defences in a hellish war of attrition, living lives that last five minutes or less – we instead piloted these impervious Champions (or whatever nomenclature you prefer,) who’ve never feared annihilation intends to return us to that grand old-fashioned bleakness; a commander sacrificing an untold number of lives to claim the day.
