[quote=@Burthstone] WCIII came before WoW. DOTA was just the first popular Moba game, which was, yes, a mod from WCIII, but the idea had existed previously. I'm just too lazy to look up examples (Mostly because they'd be hard to find under the pile of modern MOBAs.) Also, just because two Dota fans made LoL, doesn't mean they "Stole ideas from the game", they just used the basic principal, which is NOT stealing. (Or, like, Doom or CoD would be the only FPS around.) All the non-mechanical elements of league are purely unique. Actually... I'm mostly objecting to how you suggested WoW came before WCIII, because it didn't. [/quote] I guess I was being kinda super stupid on that point, but I meant the one of the major factors from the idea of Warcraft came literally from the Warhammer Fantasy setting. I wasn't trying to say WoW came before Warcraft 3, but the entire art direction, races, and most likely some lore was inspired off the Games Workshop's own fantasy setting in the very beginning. Also, I would like to think DOTA was just the first MOBA game, period. It was after the genre was gaining so much popularity as several gaming companies were trying to make their own such as Valve and Riot and the obvious money that was coming from them sparked such an interesting genre of gaming. As for comparing to DOTA 2 and LoL, I do have to admit that through the years they have started to diverge away from their original roots, but you have to at least see the early champion ideas and items that were quite obviously taken from DOTA. The map I guess can be forgiven as literally every MOBA game hasn't really deviated against the three lane match ups.