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should have told those people they had a new game out

From personal experience, getting someone to play 2XKO is at least 2x times easier than getting them into League, so on paper, it's a sound strategy.

Probably play anything *else*

as long as turkish people exist, anything riot games makes will be successful

turns out being able to blame your teammates or rng constantly is the one thing a riot spinoff needs can't really blame your teammate the entire match in a tag fighter

one that appeared hardcore- I think the conception is the more important part than the actual experience. I'd actually argue dota is and has been easier to get into for over a decade because players (and the devs!) aren't insisting on a meta. frog just threw shit out sometimes without judgement

Heck I probably don't even have to put the League of Legends branding in the title they'll still play it anyway

Yeah, *they* will play anything. But they're too busy playing lol to play the other games.

League Diehards are a special kind of damaged that would guarantee that this would never work out well in their favor. their 2XKO audience will be an entirely different crowd with a tiny overlap

League succeeded because dota was really popular and now there was a casual version for anime gooners. 2XKO failed because SF6 is really popular so they made.... casual Marvel vs Capcom for anime gooners. Nobody wanted to play MvC.

I loved everyone used it to push their agenda on game design only for the guy to confirm Oh yeah, it just had to be the most popular fighting game in history

If a runaway success can transform one of the most grounded developers that much, I can only imagine how Riot must be internally haunted by the reality that no amount of time/money/xp can manufacture true virality. I wonder if Epic & Roblox also think they could "summon the lightning" at will again