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translation: gank = ambush, farming = collecting resources without engaging against the enemy team
by ufo 3y ago
translation: gank = ambush, farming = collecting resources without engaging against the enemy team
- xxs 3y agoI'd have considered 'gank' a fairly known/used term.
- Aachen 3y agoI've never heard it in my life and I play games (not Dota) and get around on the internet generally. My first association was clank from hermitcraft's decked out, but that didn't quite fit. Farming is what I figured from context, though
- charcircuit 3y agoIt's such a common term around mobas that I doubt you haven't heard it before. Considering the popularity of the genre it's statistically unlikely that it hasn't come up.
- Cyph0n 3y agoNot for people who’ve never played MOBAs.
- xxs 3y agoThe term predates moba, it's early RTS, early MMO stuff, around late '90s, early 2000s.
- Cyph0n 3y agoGood to know, but based on numbers, most people would have been exposed to the term through MOBAs.
- dzddd 3y agoMost people have never played a MOBA.
- Cyph0n 3y agoWe’re going in circles here.. where did I say most people have played MOBA?
- swores 3y agoWell you said "most people" without clarifying whether you meant that generally (the way the other commenter assumed and so replied) or whether you meant "of people who know it, most of them..." In internet comments, if you're not really specific with your words it's likely at least somebody will misunderstand your intent, partly because they can't read your mind and partly because with so many potential readers the odds of misunderstandings goes up.
- Aachen 3y agoI played RTSes from the late '90s as a kid but still don't know the term
- jlokier 3y agoI hadn't encountered 'gank' before these comments. But I had to look up MOBA too :-) And I used to write multiplayer battle games for a living! And my favourite recent game was a MOBA without me knowing that was a term! Which goes to show, times change, words change, and it's easy to live outside gamer subculture, even while playing.
- plopz 3y agothats surprising, its such a ubiquitous word in multiplayer games. i think i first heard it used back in the early 2000s in wc3 or wow.
- callalex 3y agoIt is only ubiquitous in MOBAs which are, frankly, a small niche of the small niche that is multiplayer competitive gaming, which is a small niche of the small niche that is online gaming, which is a small niche of the small niche which is computer gaming.
- seventhtiger 3y agoThat's really interesting to me. MOBAs are notoriously new player hostile, just with the sheer amount of knowledge the game demands, and the fact that a team really does rely on its members which is too much pressure for a new player (which can translate into verbal abuse from your team depending on the game's culture). So what's the MOBA that got you interested even though you're not familiar with the genre?