I never played any moba, but i know how toxic they are. I watched some league tutorials, to figure out what is even going on, and every tutorial i watched started with: first off all, turn off voice chat.

Now valve is cooking deadlock, which is a moba as far as i know, and it's probably the best game i have ever played. But you can smell the moba player base, by the way a lot of them behave. I play online games since counterstrike 1.4, and i have never been shittalked as much and as bad as in deadlock since i play that. It's usually your own team too, you can be winning and someone tells you to kill yourself and hopes that my family gets raped, because you did somethimg they didn't like. A shitton of russians too, which is probably the big overlap of toxic shitbags and mobas.

I want to be a single unit in a massively multiplayer Age of Empires II. Like, get in the unit queue hoping you get drafted as a Hussar or something cool. Get sent in as villager with an axe every time but still do your best chopping the most wood for your team to win.

I played League for many years when it came out. I think the genre is fun to play, requires lots if skill, but I am only willing to take so much verbal abuse for what is supposed to be time I spend for fun.

I don't think that RTS+hero started with warcraft, there were hero units in warlords series (better implemented I think) before warcraft.

Check Godsworn and I agree that there isn't that many Warcraft 3 like games.

Heroes of the storm wasn't too bad, but I never got into the competitive aspects, and that's usually where things get bad.

Put 10 random people in a competitive cage where errors on minute 5 can snowball to a loss on minute 50 and you will get this all the time.

Bonus: give them access to a keyboard and a game speed to slack off.