This is important to note because it changes the way that the invented terminology is used. If even one person in a MOBA is unskilled, he or she can keep their whole team from success. While an RPG is more about the individual’s skill, MOBA’s are highly competitive team-focused games that depend on the skill of every member of the team. League of Legends, as a MOBA, is very different. Performance is largely based on personal skill rather than the skill of others around them. There are numerous bosses and events that cannot be defeated alone and require groups, but with an RPG (role playing game) like WoW, if a person is determined enough, they can get very far alone. While WoW is a multiplayer game, it is largely focused on the individual and the individual’s progress.
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LoL was released in 2009 and is actually classified as a MOBA (Massive Online Battle Arena) rather than an MMORPG, which is the full classification of World of Warcraft. League of Legends is not as old as Warcraft, or even as old as World of Warcraft.
Robinson Mills, who started his gaming journey with WoW before moving onto other MMOs, says that “a lot of terms on League of Legends originally came from Warcraft games.” He says that terms like “Smurf” and “OP,” terms to be discussed later in the paper, originated in the Warcraft games and have spread to attach themselves to other online games, likely transferred as players moved on from Warcraft to other games while taking their new terminology with them. Warcraft is often credited as the mother of all modern day MMOs, the game that inspired most if not all modern online games and turned many early gamers onto online gaming, especially once the game World of Warcraft was released in late 2004.
When considering MMO’s, or Massively Multiplayer Online games, it is important to first mention the game Warcraft.
The similarities in language and the way in which it warps and changes as it is passed on is what makes this online language an interesting form of folklore. This is seen with many terms in the game League of Legends, and in many other MMOs as well. Other gamers pick up the use of this term and soon it becomes a standard part of the online game to use the term, though nowhere in the game is this term listed or verified. One gamer makes up a term for something and types it so that other players around him or her can see it. The fascinating nature of these terms comes from the fact that they are not terms that came from the game, but were terms created by the players themselves for various purposes and spread to all other players by mere online chat. Naturally, with the exponential growth of online games and players, a culture has developed around many of these games, most notably the language and commonly seen terms used in the communication between players. League of Legends is one of many online games that have become massively popular in the last few years. Folklore and Language Used in League of Legends and Other Online Games
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