Please stop calling overwatch a moba its like calling r6 or apex areas a moba its just wrong
Definition-multiplayer online battle arena: a genre of online real-time strategy video games in which two teams of characters compete head-to-head with the goals of protecting their home base and destroying the towers, turrets, or other structures of the opposing team’s stronghold (often used attributively).
It has some grounding in being moba like.
Is it a Moba? no, there is line where Moba is on one side, and pure shooter is on the other, and Overwatch is somewhere in the middle?
Yes.
Why do you care?
Overwatch is a video game. It is an intellectual property of Activision Blizzard.
The characters are unique, but the game play is far from new. Blizzard really has never created anything new. For the most part, they have always ripped things from other games and transformed them into something Blizzard instead.
Are you also offended when people say it gets more like Call of Duty when they continue to make DPS the preferential role in the game?
You seem to be really caught up on something that makes little difference.
Yeah, this is how they work, their ability to polish an existing idea is legendary.
I can agree to an extent. Heroes of the Storm anyone.
Let’s call it Cash Grab instead.
The way I see it, here’s a spectrum of FPS Mechanics to MOBA Mechanics.
So when I hear stuff like “Oh you just wanna make it exactly like CoD” it kinda makes my eyes roll.
Ditto for when people insist Overwatch Roles need to follow DOTA/LoL/WoW guidelines.
It’s almost on par with saying “One less Tank, and the game instantly becomes CounterStrike”.
It is a MOBA inspired shooter though.
Some people have mentioned most of the Warcraft/Starcraft mythos is basically just a ripoff of Warhammer and Warhammer 40k.
It was more moba-like than ow2, but definitely way more of an fps than paladins.
The game play is straight out of Dune 2.
But yeah, totally was a 40k thing. They even mention it in voice lines.
I disagree for that purposes of talking about Supports.
In Paladins, Supports are far more lethal and brawly than in Overwatch.
how’d you call OW?
it doesn’t hold the possible clutch aspect of an average fps game
ults don’t count
If they dropped Seris into OW2 people would lose their minds 
Yeah, except that has fallen from the sky with enough force to kill the dinosaurs.
The complete amateur fest of their UI, especially on console has tarnished that in my eyes so much it’ll be hard to recover from.
I could see it. Never really cared myself.
I just pine for the old days of Blizzard developers. The developers who made a game they wanted to make, and didn’t give a damn what anyone else thought. It was simple, and effective. What they do now is pretty much the opposite.
Who is calling it moba?
Also lets not pretend that it is a tactical shooter either.
I like that turn of phrase.
It will be interesting to see how their new game goes. It will tell us a whole lot about the state of Blizzard.
supports maybe, but overall paladins still relied way less on aim and shooter mechanics compared to overwatch 2022.
unique-ish, some of they heroes are heavily inspired by other games.
Huntsman sniper and Hanzo are very similar, then after Hanzo changes are basically what Sha-lin has always been.
Junkrats = Low skill demoman
Pharah is tf2 soldier with a quake launcher
Mercy = Medic
Torb = engie, with TP going to sym
Roadhog had heavy sandvich and pudges hook/tank status
Probably more.
(disclaimer i liked OW1 given this, just wish more of the inspired heroes were, expanded instead of dumbed down)