[Capricorn2481]

I have no evangelism for the RTS genre, but I don't consider a MOBA the same as an RTS. MOBAs are only real time strategy in the sense that it's a game you can't pause where you need to think strategically, and coincidentally has a birds eye view just because it was a WC3 mod. I mean, Smite is a third person MOBA. Is that an RTS?

Doesn't mean they are less valid of games, it's just not what I think of. To me, controlling more than one unit is pretty central to what an RTS is. It scratches a certain commander/godlike itch that other games don't. And those things you list (harvesting resources, building units) aren't absolutely critical to the genre. Company of Heroes is considered an RTS by many

[dandellion]

Another trait MOBAs share with RTS is that they use click-to-move, despite WASD being used in most real-time action game genres. The other exception being Diablo (which I believe uses CTM because it evolved from a turn-based strategy game).