LoL, League, or League of Legends is something you might have heard before. Currently a massively popular online multiplayer game with an international tournament,  a giant customer base, and more… you really can’t argue when someone says LoL is a success.

This is a response to Zheran Xie’s ‘The Success of League of Legends’ blog post.

One of its rivals, is DotA 2. Both games, are spiritual successors to the game ‘Defense of the Ancients’. However,  they both are very different, from a business perspective.

Let us take a look at the companies that own the games.

Riot Games (League of Legends): A small company that hires many former employees from other companies that have created MOBA games. Their sole project is League of Legends.

Valve (DotA 2): Again, a small company, but the difference this time is that this company develops other online games, and created the most successful online distributing platform for games, called Steam.

In my opinion, DotA 2 has a good shot in the long run for being more successful than League of Legends. They are already massively successful; DotA 2 championships were held in Seattle this year, merchandise was widely sought for despite their high prices, and their customer base is although very public with their opinions, is very loyal. What contributes to this factor is that many of their customers played DotA 1 for many years, and were offered Beta versions of DotA 2 in order to transfer their loyalty to the new game.

Original post: https://blogs.ubc.ca/zheranxie/2013/10/07/the-success-of-league-of-legends/