League of Legends has made almost $1 billion in microtransactions.

League of Legends pulled in an estimated $964 million between January and September of this year, according to SuperData research (via VentureBeat), making the magical $1 billion mark almost a sure thing. And it's not alone: Last year's first-place finisher, the military FPS CrossFire, is at $897 million, Nexon's Dungeon Fighter Online is sitting at $891 million, and World of Warcraft has brought in $728 million. All them have a good shot at making it over the hump.

Source:League of Legends has made almost $1 billion in microtransactions - PC Gamer

Also noteworthy is just how badly League of Legends is trouncing the other big free-to-play games in North American, Dota 2 and Hearthstone. Both made the list, but way, way back in the pack: Dota 2 is at number nine with $136 million in revenues, while Hearthstone brought up the rear with $114 million. I'm not going to shed too many tears for either of them, but it's a remarkable gap between them.

Dota FTW !

theserpent said:
Dota FTW !

Dota 2 remains nowhere. :/

P2W this is why dota needs to stay far away from this

+1 theserpent :twisted:

Nothing P2W, only thing that you are meant to buy with real life money is skins, nothing else

This news is meh

snap said:
P2W this is why dota needs to stay far away from this

+1 theserpent

Ok now you are being unreasonable.
League of legends is not at all P2W.
All the performance enhancing items(Runes) can only be bought with the in game currency earned by playing games. Runes can in no way be bought using dollars.

Face it, League is superior.

Face it, League is superior.

coming from a league fan, that logic made me :lol:

Didn't some LoL dev said something about burden of knowledge etc :lol:

snap said:
Didn't some LoL dev said something about burden of knowledge etc

Maybe that makes League more player friendly. :-/

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Nerevarine said:
coming from a league fan, that logic made me

Come on, Dota fans are allowed to say Dota Master race but I am not even allowed to say league is superior!

Alright i was just kidding don't want to make this into a flame thread :razz:

Kudos to Riot, competition is always nice...

Ok..let's just say this way
Both are good in their own way.
LoL has a bigger fan base in the west, Like Dota is popular in Asia-Eastern Europe region

I once joined LoL while playing 1st time i was treated badly by other players so i never went back there.

theserpent said:
Ok..let's just say this way
Both are good in their own way.
LoL has a bigger fan base in the west, Like Dota is popular in Asia-Eastern Europe region

LoL got a huge player base in korea too i think right?

Yeah, the korean server is like a world of it's own.. There's a running gag - NA Challenger = Korean Bronze..
If you look at the statistics, the korean server has the lowest bronze count among all other servers but a population size bigger than EU East or West

snap said:
LoL got a huge player base in korea too i think right?

Nerevarine said:
Yeah, the korean server is like a world of it's own.. There's a running gag - NA Challenger = Korean Bronze..
If you look at the statistics, the korean server has the lowest bronze count among all other servers but a population size bigger than EU East or West

Koreans are professional gamers.

After NA Challenger League(highest) comes Korean Bronze League.

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kapilove77 said:
I once joined LoL while playing 1st time i was treated badly by other players so i never went back there.

It happens in Dota 2 too you see.
I was Phantom Assassin.
P1: PA Noob.
Me: Yes.
After some time.
P1 : PA Noob.
Me:Yes.

After some time and some more deaths.
P1: PA Noob.
Me: I said yes. Don't you get it. I said I am noob. Are you reta****?

Dota 2 players can't even grasp the simple concept that new players are bad. :-/

Well its a running gag but its not the same, there's absolutely no possible way bronze could be better than challenger