![]() ![]() ![]() Because Riot Games was already entirely a subsidiary of Tencent at that time, things are more complicated than that. Of course, voices are questioning the game being a cheap copy of the real thing. Honor of Kings often (indirectly) hint at itself as a "mobile LOL" in promotions, and the strategy attracted many initial players. Both games were 5V5 MOBA, and it's not hard to find HoK heroes "tribute" the character and mechanic design of LOL. Players soon found the similarity between the game and League of Legends, the most influential multiplayer game in the past decade. In November 2015, Tencent's Timi Studio launched the beta version of Honor of Kings in China. To understand why Tencent is trying to merge the two games at this point, one important thing to understand is why there were two versions of the same game in the first place. If the two games successfully merged into one, it will presumably have a fan base of more than 120 million, unprecedented for mobile gaming or all gaming ever. The move to merge AoV and HoK into one big unified brand, first on the esports aspect, is also on, with AoV launching "Esports Version" that shares a lot more similarities with HoK. ![]() According to LatePost, a leading tech and capital media in China, Tencent upgraded the Arena of Valor project to "A Strategic Key Project " last September, doubling its marketing budget. In the past, the two games are like existing in two parallel universes without interfering with each other. Despite sharing the same engine and most of the source codes with Honor of Kings, Arena of Valor has very different aesthetic styles and has a different champion pool in terms of character and skill design, more closely resembles its main competitor on the global market back in the days, Vainglory.īoth AoV and HoK had their own esports leagues and player base. On the other hand, Arena of Valor is a heavily localized version for Western audiences. Since its launch, it has dominated the China domestic and South East Asia market, being the top-grossing mobile game for six years, boasting 100 million daily active players. Honor of Kings, a game that many European and American players have never heard of, is one of Tencent's biggest powerhouse. Tencent, the world's largest video game company, is trying to merge the esports scene of two of its top MOBA games, Arena of Valor and Honor of Kings, to create a global super esports network. ![]()
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