Who is the Creator of Mobile Legends? Let's see the progress!

Titled mobile game Mobile Legends must have been known by many people. Therefore, Mobile Legends also has a lot of players. However, not all players know who created Mobile Legends. This article will discuss who is the creator of Mobile Legends and the historical developments of Mobile Legends.

Mobile Legends is currently the biggest and of course the best MOBA game in Asia. Evidenced by the many Esports Mobile Legends tournaments that are held every season. The size of the Esports tournament is one of the successes of this mobile game. Not only that, the total prizes available for each tournament are also not small. M3 Championship 2021 is one of the highest level competition events on an international scale. The total prize for the tournament reached $800,000 USD or equivalent to Rp. 11 Billion.

This Android and iOS based game is well-known from children to adults. Only with a competent smartphone, everyone can easily download this game and play it. Of course, someone created this game back in 2016. Who were they? Come on, see the discussion below!

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Who is the Creator of Mobile Legends?

Mobile Legends players must already know the name Moonton. Moonton is developers as well as the creator of the Mobile Legends game. With the full name, namely Shanghai Moonton Technology Co., Ltd, this company created and developed a game called Mobile Legends to date.

Not only Moonton, another company called Shanghai Mulong Network and Technology Co., Ltd also helped Moonton to work together to make Mobile Legends. This game has its own uniqueness, namely the combination of modernism with the culture of various Asian countries.

The Chinese company released Mobile Legends on July 11, 2016. The game then became the biggest MOBA game in all of Asia. Players who have just downloaded this game will get several heroes for free and can get various kinds of heroes by buying them using their own currency.

The success of Mobile Legends can be seen from the achievement of downloads on the Google Play Store and App Store. Currently, Mobile Legends has more than 500 million downloads from various countries. The game rating is 3.7 stars with more than 31 million reviews.

At the Dunia Games Award 2021 event, Mobile Legends won the Game of the Year title as well as won the Publisher Tournament of the Year 2021 title by holding the Mobile Legends Professional League Indonesia or MPL.

However, game developer Moonton faced controversy while developing the Mobile Legends game. What are the controversies? Let's check the discussion below!

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Controversy with Riot Games

Moonton faced controversy with Riot Games, the game developer League of Legends. On July 11 2017, the company filed a lawsuit against the Mobile Legends game developer, Moonton. The lawsuit was brought by Riot Games to the California District Court, for trademark infringement in Mobile Legends.

According to Riot Games, Moonton violates intellectual property such as aspects of the logo, map design, heroes, monsters and characters. Riot Games finally completed the lawsuit with illustrations as evidence that there was an intellectual property violation by Moonton.

Because of this case, Moonton as a Mobile Legends game developer had to pay a number of fines because in the end, Riot Games won the case. However, Mobile Legends still has a loyal player base.

Not only regarding League of Legends, Riot Games has finally sued Moonton for the third time for copyright regarding Wild Rift assets. The lawsuit was won by Riot Games and Moonton paid Tencent as the parent company of Riot Games in the amount of $2.9 million USD.

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Development of Mobile Legends

First released in 2016, there was an extraordinary improvement by Moonton in the Mobile Legends game. According to Statistics, revenue in the game Mobile Legends continues to increase from 2016 to 2021.

In 2016, Moonton only earned $3.99 million USD from Mobile Legends. However, in 2017, the revenue increased to $85.46 million USD. This increase continued until 2021, revenue from Mobile Legends reached $236.14 million USD.

The greater the income from Mobile Legends, the greater the total prizes available for the Mobile Legends esports tournament. The international tournament, namely the World Championship, has a final event called the M Championship. In 2019, the M1 World Championship has a total prize pool of $250,000 USD. In 2021, the M3 World Championship received an increase in prize pool. The total prize has increased to $800,000 USD or equivalent to Rp. 11 Billion.

This development is very significant for Moonton as a Mobile Legends game developer. They prove that mobile games are now easily accessible to the general public, especially Asia. Finally, Moonton received an increase in revenue and succeeded in creating an international scale Mobile Legends esports scene with a total prize pool that exceeded PC game esports competitions.

The uniqueness of Mobile Legends

Each game has its own uniqueness so that it becomes the selling point of the game. Mobile Legends certainly has its uniqueness apart from being the first analog MOBA game. Another uniqueness is the characters that come from the folklore of each country.

Moonton works with countries in Southeast Asia, their main market. With this collaboration, they create characters with historical backgrounds from various countries in Southeast Asia.

Examples are Lapu-Lapu from the Philippines, Badang from Malaysia, Minsitthar from Myanmar, and of course Kadita who was inspired by Nyi Roro Kidul from Indonesia. Not only Southeast Asian countries, Moonton also takes inspiration from Russia and creates heroes like Moskov, Zhask, and Natalia.

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