Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Moba Genre
Genres come about due to necessity of comparing like-for-life when existing genres don't cover it, they don't appear just to act as marketing gimmicks, and when they do come about they are slow to reach critical mass. All of the links about this genre are centred on the developers of ''League of Legends'' who are peddling the term,  applies. When gameplay diverges from genre norm 3 things could happen: 1) the games continue to be labelled as whatever genre(s) they are perceived to have emerged from (no new genre at all, evolution of an existing genre), 2) they become absorbed into one or the other existing genres and get labelled "X genre with Y genre elements" or just "X genre" (a hybrid of existing genres without it being a new genre, or evolution of an existing genre again) or 3) a new genre gradually builds up and becomes recognized. There's zero guarantee that a genre recognized by the gaming press (which is what's needed, in a nutshell) will become adopted at all, and even if it does happen there's no guarantee it will be called DOTA-like ''or'' MOBA. The key with a lot of these discussions is the evolution of genre which happens all the time, widely accepted new genres are few and far between
— User:Someone, 18:21, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NEO (Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary)