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Mobile League of Legends in the Works from Riot & Tencent Games - MMORPG.com

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited May 2019 in News & Features Discussion

imageMobile League of Legends in the Works from Riot & Tencent Games - MMORPG.com

Reuters is reporting that Riot Games and Tencent Games are working cooperatively to develop a mobile version of League of Legends according to a trio of sources "with inside knowledge of the matter". A few years ago, Riot rejected the idea of mobile LoL after which Tencent developed a clone called Honour of Kings that was released in China. It subsequently became "the world's highest grossing multiplayer online battle arena game" in late 2015.

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  • AlbatroesAlbatroes Member LegendaryPosts: 7,671
    Its a bit scary that almost everything pertaining to gaming involves tencent in some form now.
    NeonSaruFolmenXreeon
  • HooterrHooterr Member UncommonPosts: 12

    Albatroes said:

    Its a bit scary that almost everything pertaining to gaming involves tencent in some form now.



    5% ownership in a few game companies + Riot + Grinding Gears is hardly almost everything...
    NeonSaruFolmen[Deleted User]jimmywolfceh430
  • SequriemSequriem Member UncommonPosts: 24
    I won't play it, I don't hate mobile games it's just I don't like them personally
    Folmen
  • black9iceblack9ice Member UncommonPosts: 154

    Hooterr said:



    Albatroes said:


    Its a bit scary that almost everything pertaining to gaming involves tencent in some form now.






    5% ownership in a few game companies + Riot + Grinding Gears is hardly almost everything...



    A couple of gaming companies? You must dig deeper then, they have a large share in epic, so in essence they have their hands in ALOT of the gaming space (developer).
    Folmen
  • HooterrHooterr Member UncommonPosts: 12

    black9ice said:



    Hooterr said:





    Albatroes said:



    Its a bit scary that almost everything pertaining to gaming involves tencent in some form now.









    5% ownership in a few game companies + Riot + Grinding Gears is hardly almost everything...






    A couple of gaming companies? You must dig deeper then, they have a large share in epic, so in essence they have their hands in ALOT of the gaming space (developer).



    Mildly. Adding Fortnite and a game store to the list hardly counts. If Epic Developed all of the games in the game store, I might agree more. But still, being invovled in 2% of the gaming market is no where close to "almost everything in gaming".
    Folmen[Deleted User]
  • AlverantAlverant Member RarePosts: 1,347
    How many people will they overwork with perpetual crunch time in order to get this out?
    WhiteLantern
  • black9iceblack9ice Member UncommonPosts: 154

    Hooterr said:



    black9ice said:





    Hooterr said:







    Albatroes said:




    Its a bit scary that almost everything pertaining to gaming involves tencent in some form now.












    5% ownership in a few game companies + Riot + Grinding Gears is hardly almost everything...









    A couple of gaming companies? You must dig deeper then, they have a large share in epic, so in essence they have their hands in ALOT of the gaming space (developer).






    Mildly. Adding Fortnite and a game store to the list hardly counts. If Epic Developed all of the games in the game store, I might agree more. But still, being invovled in 2% of the gaming market is no where close to "almost everything in gaming".



    I wouldn't say a 40% stake at an 800 Million dollar purchase to equate to '2%' of the industry seeing the majority of dev houses are using UE4. But keep telling yourself something different.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games#Unreal_Engine_4

    Pretty expansive list of games...
    ragebullet[Deleted User]
  • AlbatroesAlbatroes Member LegendaryPosts: 7,671

    black9ice said:



    Hooterr said:





    black9ice said:







    Hooterr said:









    Albatroes said:





    Its a bit scary that almost everything pertaining to gaming involves tencent in some form now.















    5% ownership in a few game companies + Riot + Grinding Gears is hardly almost everything...












    A couple of gaming companies? You must dig deeper then, they have a large share in epic, so in essence they have their hands in ALOT of the gaming space (developer).









    Mildly. Adding Fortnite and a game store to the list hardly counts. If Epic Developed all of the games in the game store, I might agree more. But still, being invovled in 2% of the gaming market is no where close to "almost everything in gaming".






    I wouldn't say a 40% stake at an 800 Million dollar purchase to equate to '2%' of the industry seeing the majority of dev houses are using UE4. But keep telling yourself something different.



    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games#Unreal_Engine_4



    Pretty expansive list of games...



    Couple that with 2 other important points: 1) china makes up 1/4 of the world's population and 2) most things gaming related in china have to go through tencent since they work directly for the chinese government (supposedly). So yeah.....they aren't exactly small.
  • TEKK3NTEKK3N Member RarePosts: 1,115
    What?
    There wasn't already a mobile version?
    I am actually shocked.

    LOL was made to be played on mobile.
    kertin
  • XingbairongXingbairong Member RarePosts: 927

    black9ice said:



    Hooterr said:





    Albatroes said:



    Its a bit scary that almost everything pertaining to gaming involves tencent in some form now.









    5% ownership in a few game companies + Riot + Grinding Gears is hardly almost everything...






    A couple of gaming companies? You must dig deeper then, they have a large share in epic, so in essence they have their hands in ALOT of the gaming space (developer).



    They have their hands on a lot of games we don't even know through subsidiaries. China tends to like that kind of approach. Their book market is kinda the same. Some of the big players own pretty much everything through subsidiaries.
  • NorseGodNorseGod Member EpicPosts: 2,654
    They dumbed down PC games to accommodate unwelcomed, console players. Imagine what MMORPGs will be like when they are made so cellphone zombies can play.
    To talk about games without the censorship, check out https://www.reddit.com/r/MMORPG/
  • Panther2103Panther2103 Member EpicPosts: 5,777
    Tencent already released a mobile LoL, Arena of Valor. Maybe it didn't pick up as much steam as they wanted to so now they are branding another one and launching it.
  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,028
    As long as League of Legends is stagnated into a basically set in stone carry-support bottom, tank or bruiser top solo, mage mid, and jungler meta, it will not be worth my time.

    Season 1 League of Legends was a blast. Everything since is dull and repetitive.
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