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Most MMO game makers dedicate a large portion of their time to policing their games' communities and disciplining "...

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Shamus Young: "There's probably something good about the toxic players showing up and sticking with your game," said Jerome K. Jones, designer of Orcs Must Die: Unchained. "The good thing is probably that it's a good game. It's holding their interest, it's keeping them around. It's making them passionate enough to give a damn."

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Carolyn got a chance to play Orcs Must Die! Unchained. Here are her thoughts on its current state in beta.

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Is Orcs Must Die Unchained a multiplayer online battle arena? Ian Fischer, design director at Robot Entertainment, has grudgingly accepted that the term might be inescapable. "When we first started working on the game," he said, "if you could take a time machine back two years, 'MOBA' never would have come out of our mouths. If we were explaining it, we would say, 'It's like playing two games of Orcs Must Die simultaneously' or 'It's like Orcs Must Die but now you get to do the offensive side too.' The game that we compared it to the most at that point was TF2. 'Think about TF2 but more strategic,' that's how we'd describe the game."

But at a certain point, it became clear that players saw the game differently. "When we were getting ready to go to PAX and show the game for the first time," Fischer said, "we got two dozen people from the college down the street from our dev studio, and we didn't tell them anything. We just had them sit down and play it. They helped us immeasurably to refine our demo for PAX, but also, to a person, all two dozen of them said, 'Your game is a MOBA.' We got to a point where we were saying, 'We have to come out and tell everybody we're not a MOBA. We have to position ourselves as not being a MOBA at all,' but everybody said 'MOBA,' so at that point, it was like, why fight it? I'm not gonna spend the next year trying to convince you that it's not a MOBA. You think it's a MOBA, it's a MOBA."

Now, I'm not a big MOBA player, so I'm not in the best position to determine whether the various elements that compose Orcs Must Die Unchained make the game a MOBA or not, and in the end, I'm not sure it matters. When I got to play Unchained last week in advance of the game's beta, my feeling was that it was a more accessible game than something like . We think that with the traps, the offense, defense, the minions, the different kind of combinations of stuff in there, whether it's a MOBA or not, we're still giving you a pretty unique experience. We're still doing something that players haven't seen before."

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Carolyn got a chance to play Orcs Must Die! Unchained. Here are her thoughts on its current state in beta.

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Is Orcs Must Die Unchained a multiplayer online battle arena? Ian Fischer, design director at Robot Entertainment, has grudgingly accepted that the term might be inescapable. "When we first started working on the game," he said, "if you could take a time machine back two years, 'MOBA' never would have come out of our mouths. If we were explaining it, we would say, 'It's like playing two games of Orcs Must Die simultaneously' or 'It's like Orcs Must Die but now you get to do the offensive side too.' The game that we compared it to the most at that point was TF2. 'Think about TF2 but more strategic,' that's how we'd describe the game."

But at a certain point, it became clear that players saw the game differently. "When we were getting ready to go to PAX and show the game for the first time," Fischer said, "we got two dozen people from the college down the street from our dev studio, and we didn't tell them anything. We just had them sit down and play it. They helped us immeasurably to refine our demo for PAX, but also, to a person, all two dozen of them said, 'Your game is a MOBA.' We got to a point where we were saying, 'We have to come out and tell everybody we're not a MOBA. We have to position ourselves as not being a MOBA at all,' but everybody said 'MOBA,' so at that point, it was like, why fight it? I'm not gonna spend the next year trying to convince you that it's not a MOBA. You think it's a MOBA, it's a MOBA."

Now, I'm not a big MOBA player, so I'm not in the best position to determine whether the various elements that compose Orcs Must Die Unchained make the game a MOBA or not, and in the end, I'm not sure it matters. When I got to play Unchained last week in advance of the game's beta, my feeling was that it was a more accessible game than something like . We think that with the traps, the offense, defense, the minions, the different kind of combinations of stuff in there, whether it's a MOBA or not, we're still giving you a pretty unique experience. We're still doing something that players haven't seen before."

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Carolyn got a chance to play Orcs Must Die! Unchained. Here are her thoughts on its current state in beta.

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Is Orcs Must Die Unchained a multiplayer online battle arena? Ian Fischer, design director at Robot Entertainment, has grudgingly accepted that the term might be inescapable. "When we first started working on the game," he said, "if you could take a time machine back two years, 'MOBA' never would have come out of our mouths. If we were explaining it, we would say, 'It's like playing two games of Orcs Must Die simultaneously' or 'It's like Orcs Must Die but now you get to do the offensive side too.' The game that we compared it to the most at that point was TF2. 'Think about TF2 but more strategic,' that's how we'd describe the game."

But at a certain point, it became clear that players saw the game differently. "When we were getting ready to go to PAX and show the game for the first time," Fischer said, "we got two dozen people from the college down the street from our dev studio, and we didn't tell them anything. We just had them sit down and play it. They helped us immeasurably to refine our demo for PAX, but also, to a person, all two dozen of them said, 'Your game is a MOBA.' We got to a point where we were saying, 'We have to come out and tell everybody we're not a MOBA. We have to position ourselves as not being a MOBA at all,' but everybody said 'MOBA,' so at that point, it was like, why fight it? I'm not gonna spend the next year trying to convince you that it's not a MOBA. You think it's a MOBA, it's a MOBA."

Now, I'm not a big MOBA player, so I'm not in the best position to determine whether the various elements that compose Orcs Must Die Unchained make the game a MOBA or not, and in the end, I'm not sure it matters. When I got to play Unchained last week in advance of the game's beta, my feeling was that it was a more accessible game than something like . We think that with the traps, the offense, defense, the minions, the different kind of combinations of stuff in there, whether it's a MOBA or not, we're still giving you a pretty unique experience. We're still doing something that players haven't seen before."

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Carolyn got a chance to play Orcs Must Die! Unchained. Here are her thoughts on its current state in beta.

Added: 01.07.2014 17:00 | 3 views | 0 comments

Is Orcs Must Die Unchained a multiplayer online battle arena? Ian Fischer, design director at Robot Entertainment, has grudgingly accepted that the term might be inescapable. "When we first started working on the game," he said, "if you could take a time machine back two years, 'MOBA' never would have come out of our mouths. If we were explaining it, we would say, 'It's like playing two games of Orcs Must Die simultaneously' or 'It's like Orcs Must Die but now you get to do the offensive side too.' The game that we compared it to the most at that point was TF2. 'Think about TF2 but more strategic,' that's how we'd describe the game."

But at a certain point, it became clear that players saw the game differently. "When we were getting ready to go to PAX and show the game for the first time," Fischer said, "we got two dozen people from the college down the street from our dev studio, and we didn't tell them anything. We just had them sit down and play it. They helped us immeasurably to refine our demo for PAX, but also, to a person, all two dozen of them said, 'Your game is a MOBA.' We got to a point where we were saying, 'We have to come out and tell everybody we're not a MOBA. We have to position ourselves as not being a MOBA at all,' but everybody said 'MOBA,' so at that point, it was like, why fight it? I'm not gonna spend the next year trying to convince you that it's not a MOBA. You think it's a MOBA, it's a MOBA."

Now, I'm not a big MOBA player, so I'm not in the best position to determine whether the various elements that compose Orcs Must Die Unchained make the game a MOBA or not, and in the end, I'm not sure it matters. When I got to play Unchained last week in advance of the game's beta, my feeling was that it was a more accessible game than something like . We think that with the traps, the offense, defense, the minions, the different kind of combinations of stuff in there, whether it's a MOBA or not, we're still giving you a pretty unique experience. We're still doing something that players haven't seen before."