league of legends

Official Site: League of Legends
Studio: Riot Games
Launch Date: October 27, 2009
Genre: MOBA
Business Model: F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, Mac

The world needs heroes willing to put up with SO MUCH crap.

The Soapbox: Getting to the heart of toxicity in MMOs

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So we've gotten another post from a developer saying that they're going to really 100% be better about rooting out toxic players from their...
Just behind.

RuneScape is a massive hit on Twitch

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Time and again, we here at Massively OP have noted how RuneScape seems to be incredibly underestimated by the larger MMO community. For how...
Sit the eff down.

Gigantic devs liken their graphics to candy and plastic toys

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If you love to hate on brightly colored cartoony-stylized graphics of games like World of Warcraft, League of Legends, and even Wildstar, know that...
Live by the ripoff, die by the ripoff.

Riot Games files a lawsuit against the developer of an alleged League of Legends clone

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Once upon a time, a studio named Riot Games made a game called League of Legends, which was essentially a Warcraft III map given...

The MOP Up: SMITE sees a Divine Light (July 9, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Chinese government attacks on Honour of Kings MOBA leads to child locks

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You may not have heard of Honour of Kings, but that's probably because you don't live in China. It's one of the most popular...
It lurks.

League of Legends increases prices in the UK over Brexit currency woes

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Your pounds won't carry you quite as far in League of Legends at this point. The game's prices for Riot Points (i.e., the currency...

The MOP Up: Warframe’s Chains of Harrow (July 2, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

The MOP Up: Destiny 2’s class roster (June 18, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Battle Bards Episode 100: Centennial spectacular!

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After four years and over 700 MMORPG music tracks, the Battle Bards have arrived at their 100th show! For this centennial spectacular, Syl, Steff,...

Massively Overthinking: MMO monetization run amok

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Over the last couple of weeks, the monetization of unreleased games has become a pervasive and uncomfortable theme for the MMO genre. Just in...
E-sports

League of Legends NA e-sports league reorg means $75K pro player salaries, revenue sharing, and player association

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Riot Games is in the midst of a major reorganization of its League of Legends e-sports organization, at least in North America. The company...
Someone must have had fun with this at some point, right?

Leaderboard: Almost half of e-sports viewers don’t even play the games they’re spectating

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It may sound crazy, but a huge number of people who pour eyeball time and money into e-sports don't even play the games they're...
This town is, in fact, big enough for the both of us. We need a fourth.

Wild West Online announced for later this year, Kickstarter coming soon

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If you've been wishing for horses and western MMORPGs, then saddle up par'dner -- we're about to ride off into a glorious sunrise. PC Gamer...

The MOP Up: SMITE’s console mea culpa (May 7, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Massively Overthinking: Disassembling MMORPGs for parts

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This week's Massively Overthinking comes to us from Xijit -- and I think you'll agree it's quite timely. "In light of The Secret World getting reworked into...
E-sports

Analyst suggests Tencent’s new global games service will compete with Steam

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If you're not a big fan of Steam's dominance of gaming trends in the west, maybe you think a competitor will do the service...
Well well well, how the turntable.

Greg Street discusses balancing League of Legends for all skill levels

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How do you balance a video game? It's kind of an ongoing question, but it's also one that Greg Street (aka Ghostcrawler) has been...
There has to be money here somewhere.

SuperData CEO discusses the money problem of e-sports

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Whether you're a big fan of the e-sports scene or you would be quite happy never hearing about it ever again, you are no...
Darn it.

SuperData February 2017: World of Tanks perks up, Hearthstone is sinking

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Happy SuperData day! That's the monthly holiday when we pore over the market analysis report, freak out over something doing well, freak over something...

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