Tencent Records 100M Daily Users With The Mobile Game Honor Of Kings

Honor of Kings or Wangzhe Rongyao is a mobile MOBA that is only available in China. The game has just celebrated its fifth anniversary. Tencent’s Timi Studios is the developer of the game. And it has just been revealed that the game has recorded 100 million daily active users.

Timi released the game in November 2015 for both iOS and Android platforms. Timi and Activision have worked together to bring Call of Duty to smartphone users.

How Honor of Kings was created is quite interesting. Back in 2015, Tencent contacted Riot Games and proposed its plan to bring League of Legends to mobile. However, the offer was declined by Riot. As a result, Tencent decided to make a separate game and named it Wangzhe Rongyao.

Right after its release, the game was an instant hit. Two years later, it became the world’s top-grossing game.

Because of its popularity, Tencent went on to develop its international adaptation called Arena of Valor, released in 2017. The game badly affected the relationship between Riot and Tencent. According to Riot, the game was a copycat of its League of Legends.

Later, in an interview with Dot Esports, Riot said that the situation wasn’t great but it was solved.

The upcoming League of Legends: Wild Rift will be Riot’s effort in capturing the profitable mobile game market. In select regions, the game is in open beta. And by spring 2021, it will be available in most regions worldwide. Contrary to what Riot said to Tencent earlier, Wild Rift is proof that League’s gameplay can be brought to mobile.

Even so, Honor of Kings of Tencent continues to break records. The game has its own premier league. The Honor of Kings World Champion Cup 2020 was held in Shanghai and Beijing as a LAN event. The prize pool of the event was more than $4.5 million. Half of it was from crowdfunding.

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