Analysis into the Most Popular Game of All Times: League of Legends

Today, I want to talk about the most popular game of all times.
The game that people played the most in the world, the game that everyone is playing around the globe: League of Legends.

I'm not going to talk about how to be good at the game or how to play the game. Rather, I am interested in what made it so popular. What was it about League of Legends that made it such a success, while its competitors died out? Well, let me begin by explaining the uniqueness of this particular game.

The game League of Legends is a MOBA game. MOBA stands for Massive Online Battle Arena, and it's a game where many people play certain heroes to fight each other on a battle arena. This genre started out as a custom game and although many people enjoyed the genre, no official game was published. Then some companies, noticing the potential of this genre, published several games but they're were not free. People had to pay monthly fees to play the game and as this genre was not famous at the time, people were not willing to pay to play an unknown game.

Then came League of Legends. The main point of this game's success was that it was completely free. The only aspect of League of Legends where you can pay money is to buy hero skins that make your hero look better, but does not affect the game play one bit. Since it was free, people tried this new game out of curiosity. This is how the public first got access to the MOBA genre game and it was a big hit.

League of Legends became pretty famous swiftly, but was not done yet. Riot Games, the publisher of League of Legends, held a world championship. Many famous professional game players entered this tournament and this tournament was a huge success.

League of Legends World Championship in 2012 (image source: http://www.in2lol.com/en/news/4459-the-aftermath-of-the-season-2-world-championship)

In conclusion, the game League of Legends succeeded due to three main reasons. Firstly, it had chosen a great genre, undeveloped at the time. Secondly, it was completely free allowing people to start playing easily. Finally, it held many competitions that caught the public's interest. If you're curious about how popular the game League of Legends is, please take a look at the following link (http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/01/27/riots-league-of-legends-reveals-astonishing-27-million-daily-players-67-million-monthly/) to find out more.