The abbreviation of Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Games means multiplayer online competitive games. It is usually written with MOBA GAMES. In 1998, "StarCraft" came out, and it was also bundled with a map editor. Using this powerful map editor, a player created an RPG map called Aeon Of Strife (the predecessor of dota). , became the original prototype of all MOBA games.

Despite the controversy, MOBA games and DOTA games are currently equated at home and abroad.

Most news reports, including e-sports reports, rename DOTA games. It is a MOBA game because DOTA is a specific product name and a registered trademark.

The more popular MOBA games in China include: Qifan Game’s Heroes, Golden Horse, and Three Kingdoms 2; Hangzhou Electronic Soul’s Dream Three Kingdoms; NetEase’s Heroes of the Three Kingdoms; Shengguang Tianyi’s Tianyi Jue, Zhongqingbao’s 300 heroes, etc.

The more popular international MOBA games include: Dota (based on Blizzard’s Warcraft 3, operated by many domestic battle platforms such as Qifan and Haofang), DOTA2 (developed by Valve, and domestically represented by Perfect World (Chinese name Dota 2), the world's most popular online game LoL (developed by Riot, domestic agent is Tencent, Chinese name League of Legends)

In addition, foreign game developers are still releasing some new MOBA games. , some of which have been promoted in China (several models are represented by Tencent, such as Heroes of the Storm), while Heroes of the Storm by Blizzard, the creator of MOBA, has not yet announced its release date