e-Sport as Leverage for Growth Strategy: The Example of League of Legends

e-Sport as Leverage for Growth Strategy: The Example of League of Legends

Myriam Davidovici-Nora
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/IJGCMS.2017040103
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Abstract

While e-Sport today becomes a big business and a highly publicized industry, a big business and a highly-publicized industry, it is still studied from a descriptive perspective rather than from an analytical one. In this paper, the author proposes to analyze the relationship between e-Sport and the growth strategy of the game League of Legends (LoL) developed by Riot Games. How competitive community and casual community evolve together? What are the conditions for a virtuous growth? The author deepens the link between the traditional free-to-play dynamics based on acquisition-retention-monetization of players and the dynamics of e-Sport based on managing audience, pro-gamers, competitive events and broadcasting. The author finds that casual players and pro-gamers have specific roles that, combined with an active policy centered on player's experience developed by Riot Games and with a growing media ecosystem, create externalities on each other.
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Founders of Riot have ingeniously taken advantage of three business opportunities when combined make initial conditions very attractive for players: (1) the birth of a new game genre (MOBA), (2) the burgeoning of a new business model (the Free-to-Play or F2P) and (3) a growing e-Sport scene. Let us examine each into details.

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