According to SuperData’s 2020 Year in Year Review report, Riot Games’ multiplayer online battle arena game 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:League of Legends has managed to earn an astounding $1.75 billion in the past year, behind Pok👍emon Go which generated $1.92 billion.
League of Legends benefitted greatly from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Legends of Runeterra, a free-to-play digital col⛎lectible card game, which was released on April 29, 2020 for Microsoft Windows, Android, and iOS. Still, the original game, released in 2009, remains unstoppable. In 2013, the game generated $624 million, which increased to $2.🐼1 billion in 2017. Despite a slight drop in 2018 to $1.4 billion, in 2019, the revenue increased again to $1.5 billion.
Of all the free-to-play games, League of Legends was the sixth highest grossing game of 2020ඣ and the only non-mobile title in the top 10. Meanwhile, VALORANT, Riot Games’ free-to-play multiplayer tactical first-person hero shooter, which was the ninth highest grossing game in 2020, is set to make a huge jump in earnings in 2021 due to capital increases.
SuperData’s reports also reveals that free-to-play games continued to generate the most game revenue (78%), with Asian markets accounting for 59% of free-to-play earnings. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Honor of Kings and P😼eacekeeper Elite, both Tenc♏ent titles, generated more than $2 billion each in 2020.
Although 2020 was a big year for gaming due to COVID-19 lockdowns, the rollout of a vaccine is 🏅not expected to slow the gaming market since the long-term habits formed during the pandemic will probably remain. Both free-to-play and premiu꧒m markets in Asia were up year-over-year by 11% and 20%, respectively, despite several countries, particularly China, dealing with COVID-19 more quickly and effectively than other markets.
In 2021, League💧 of Legends fans can expect to see the launch of League of Legends: Wild Rift in open beta, which was due to be released in Oct෴ober in North America but was delayed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the game has been released in select regions, North America probably won’t have access to the game until mid-2021.
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