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What If EA Bought League Of Legends?

One Angry Gamer "There's a video making the rounds on YouTube that was recently published by Randy Nova that does a “What If?” scenario where it breaks down the possibilities of what League of Legends would be like if Electronic Arts bought out Riot Games and took control of the popular free-to-play MOBA. The results are kind of scary because it's pretty much what you would expect from the infamous software publisher."

DarkOcelet3152d ago (Edited 3152d ago )

“EA HAD an amazing MOBA. It was called Dawngate. It could have given League real competition. They shut it down because it didn’t make enough money in Beta. IN. BETA.”

WTF? Really? EA are stupid. I am pretty sure Need For Speed and Battlefront will be filled with dlc and microtransactions to the core.

fermcr3150d ago (Edited 3150d ago )

EA doesn't have the money to buy League Of Legends. LOL is too valuable.

League of Legends has made almost $1 billion in microtransactions
http://www.pcgamer.com/leag...

If EA wanted to buy LOL, they probably have to pay more then what Microsoft paid for Minecraft.

Chevalier3150d ago

Is this guy stupid? It's completely unrealistic to assume EA is even capable of buying this IP. Tencent is the 5th largest internet company in the world behind only Amazon, Google, JD and Ebay. Tencent just got revalued up in April and is worth over $200 BILLION.

They made something like $960 million in sales of LoL last year alone and they own 92.7% of Riot studios. EA can only dream of owning League.

Tencent $206 Billion >>>>>>>&g t;>>>> EA $6 billion

Tencent also owns a minority stake in Epic Games as well. If they wanted to they could buy EA with their pocket change.

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Sitdown3150d ago

What if they bought the Lingerie League?

Roccetarius3150d ago

Even if EA did get their hands on LoL, they would be running it into the ground so fast it's not even funny. In that case, it wouldn't be worth much afterwards.

jairusmonillas3150d ago

EA probably wont considering all they want are sports and guns. MS however can snatch riot games just so they can compete with Steam's dota 2.

Chevalier3150d ago

They can't snatch it from Tencent ever. Sure MS has a market cap of $350 Billion, but, just consider this Tencent in 2013 just passed $100 Billion and just this April was valued at $206 billion!!! They gained over $100 billion market cap in under 2 years and are the 5th largest internet company in the world. They own 92% of Riot game studios and made $960 million in microtransactions last year. You think that this company is stupid enough to sell League to MS? Highly unlikely, you don't get to be worth $206 billion by being idiots.

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League of Legends' New Arena Mode Changes Breathe Life Into a Stale Formula

TNS: "A League of Legends game mode, Arena, will return with some major changes that may breathe some life for a stagnant game."

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MSI 2024 Patch Revealed by Lead Gameplay Designer

ESTNN writes: "Hwei, LeBlanc and Ryze stand above the rest as the strongest players in the League of Legends 14.8 mid-lane due to substantial buffs in their scaling, base damage and crowd control (CC) respectively."

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EA Hopes to Use Generative AI to Drive Monetization and Make Development 30% More Efficient

Today Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson provided a look into his ideas for the use of generative AI in the company's development processes.

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thorstein52d ago

I wonder what the next buzz word they'll slap in front of AI to make it sound exciting next? "Generative" as if it's creating its own content. Lol.

Cacabunga51d ago

EA is already dying a painful death..

peppeaccardo51d ago

i have a better idea .. why the whole exec team doesn't get replaced by chat bots ?

just_looken52d ago

Though i agree the ai thing is already in other forms of media there have been ai translations/scripts/voice over and even full ai commercials aired on tv. Ubisoft has created a ai game creator story/vo/music except the building of the game

The new unreal engine has auto terrain creation tools

In the world of greed in which it is winning without any major blow back ai is our future.

everyone want's biden dead on the mic or a criminal instead of a woman and now we are getting ai everything because no one will stop watching/playing ai created media.

GamerRN51d ago

Maybe they should just focus on making good games?

Just a thought...

Kiryu199251d ago

Exactly EA are just pure evil. When they are beating Bank of America to be voted the worst company to work for that’s saying a lot

Good thing I don’t buy their games day one and wait for deep deep sale years after launch (the select few games I am actually interested in)

Gaming is making so much money yet the greed of these companies is never ending

CEO’s and people on board making millions yet cutting jobs to those who are actually making the products

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Knightofelemia52d ago (Edited 52d ago )

EA is still a shady shitty company even with or without the help of Skynet. All they will use AI for is new ways to milk loot boxes and come up with the same sports title with a different year on the label. They are one company I truly do hate with a passion. They single handedly ruined some great franchise with their death touch. ME, Dead Space, Alice Returns, Dante's Inferno.

Stuart575652d ago

EA layoffs followed by 'Generative AI to Drive Monetization'

I knew it. Wonder what AI salary looks like? Nothing.

ChasterMies52d ago

I having a feeling that most of the layoffs in the industry are based on the idea that AI will do the same job for less.

DarXyde51d ago

Very likely, yes.

Made worse by the fact that the execs aren't changing their compensations.

My deepest fear at this point is that we are now in the capitalism endgame.

At this point, we really should just burn AI to the ground. Executives cannot be trusted to do the right thing.
How are those people expected to support families if everything gets automated?

Barlos52d ago (Edited 52d ago )

And take away creativity, and people's jobs as we've been seeing. Got it.

No thanks. I want my games created by people, not AI.

CobraKai52d ago

Exactly. If or when games start becoming more AI than people, im done with gaming. AI and companies like EA can suck donkey d***k.

just_looken52d ago

Though i agree remember this is no ps3/360 era were we got up to 3 games in one generation from on developer like gears/halo/bioware/sony/ms

The people today are pro esg/sweet baby for the most part AAA gaming is imploding right now.

We should be stepping back re evaluate everything as a whole this year xmen 97 written/directed by a woman that is nuts and its also being made by a group reshaping bodies to be less sexual like wtf. A dam famous cartoon from the 90's is being rebuilt with millions spent to be worse in everyway.

Gaming/movies/tv shows made today are worse than what we had 7years ago ai won't change this but that ai is also being made by these groups so either way we are screwed.
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Eonjay51d ago

Don't be of afraid of women. Sexy characters in games and movies still exist. Got my Stellar Blade on preorder!!! Everything all the time doesn't need to be sexual...that's stupid, childish and dull.

Chocoburger52d ago (Edited 52d ago )

EA doesn't want to lose their title of worst gaming company ever, always trying their best to remain the champs!
What's sad is that they have so much potential to be a decent publisher.

SSX Tricky / SSX 3
Def Jam Vendetta / Fight for New York
NBA Street
NFL Steet
Mirror's Edge
Bad Company
Burnout 3 / 4 / 5

Remember when EA used to be awesome? It's all over with now. Unpolished, if not out-right broken games these days. Endless monetization and gambling in their sports games, and let's not forget wasting hours of your life trying to unlock characters or equipment using "surprise boxes!"

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