…Are you kidding? LoL has been huge for years in NA. RIOT is an American company that was bought by Tencent. Leaving the market means they lose their entire dev team.
Investing 2 years after the game was first playable by the public counts as “giving money to create it”, now?
That’s at least 6 years after they’d have started development.
You’re probably thinking the “full release” but the game was being played by the public for several years, and was quite popular for over year prior to the “official release”. So, no. They didn’t. Their investment came a full year after I’d already been playing the game.
The game was made already. They bought an existing product.
What? League is consistently the top result of twitch. Even accounting for other regions, league is by far one of the largest games people watch in na. Big na streamers pull in thousands of viewers (doublelift, tyler1 for example)
More likely they would leave the market. That game isn’t really popular in NA but it’s the most popular non-mobile game in Asia
…Are you kidding? LoL has been huge for years in NA. RIOT is an American company that was bought by Tencent. Leaving the market means they lose their entire dev team.
Sure but it ignores that Tencent gave $20 million to create LoL (first 10 then another 10 to buy out the other investors)
Investing 2 years after the game was first playable by the public counts as “giving money to create it”, now? That’s at least 6 years after they’d have started development.
You’ve ignored reality.
They invested before it was released, what are you talking about?
Tencent paid for it to be made
You’re probably thinking the “full release” but the game was being played by the public for several years, and was quite popular for over year prior to the “official release”. So, no. They didn’t. Their investment came a full year after I’d already been playing the game.
The game was made already. They bought an existing product.
LoL isn’t popular in NA anymore?
Never was that popular
COD and Fortnite are much bigger with the latter even making sports radio talk
The popularity spike was when MLG needed to fill in the Halo Reach spot due to that game’s lack of appeal
What? League is consistently the top result of twitch. Even accounting for other regions, league is by far one of the largest games people watch in na. Big na streamers pull in thousands of viewers (doublelift, tyler1 for example)