Before ‘Honour Of Kings’ became the world’s most popular game, it was a desperate experiment


By Josh Ye

Honour of Kings was created after Chinese gaming giant Tencent failed to convince League of Legends’ creators to develop a mobile version of the PC game. It is now the world’s most popular game and the first on any platform to average more than 100 million users a day. — SCMP

In 2015 when Chinese gaming giant Tencent Holdings tabled the idea of creating a mobile version of League of Legends, it could not get the game’s creator, California-based Riot Games, to agree.

At the time, mobile was not commonly seen as the platform for cutting edge, competitive games and the founders of Riot – which Tencent owned 93% of at the time – did not want to water down its hottest PC game to be played on smartphones.

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