League of legends - $1 billion in microtransactions

Apparently LoL has more active players and has been around longer. Earnings seem as expected. Lol seems to have a more aggressive money making campaign too where dota is a piss in the wind when it comes to buying shit, many players will only start buying 0.5€ items when they are 200 hours in.

Check any app store for highest grossing titles. 90% of the titles listed will be free to play. The big thing with LoL is that, afaik, all of the purchases are cosmetic and dont change gameplay at all.

Also most of the people end up buying Dota 2 items from the community market rather than the in-game store, which will probably not be counted towards the total.

And also free drops.

I think Dota 2 is earning much more per player if that is true . The playerbases are diffrent after all .

dota2 > lol

lol is more easy to play, funny and attractive for mosto of the gamers. You can see why in just 30 mins of gameplay of each. I can easily see why lol earns more.

more little kids play lol and they tend to use any money for it on the spot. I have a 13 year old cousin who has spent about $600 on lol, $100 on the spot after receiving his Christmas money. idiots

Dota can't earn more if they give you more content for free. Also, super ridiculous 10€ per skin for crappy repaints. The audience is simply gullible enough to buy any crap, just like most F2P games.

I've spent about $100-$120 on LoL over the last three years. I generally buy only on sale or limited availability skins.

lineage 1 is still a thing? wow.

LoL has definitely more aggresive f2p model, and also DOTA shares its income with creators and some of it goes to esports.

LoL and most of the F2P on this list has either grind way too hard or pay this small amount of money thingie whereas Dota 2 has purely cosmetic things. So contrary to your initial thought logical conclusion should be LoL winning more than Dota 2

But looking at playerbases you can clearly see Dota 2 is actually winning more than LoL per player.
I attributed this anomaly to

1. Dota 2 keys as a trading currency
2. You can earn steam wallet without spending actual money

Valve's pricing on charging for content even if it's cosmetic or not is more aggressive by far than Riot's or any other company's that I know of. It is based in the virus of gambling which is in human's nature. Take a look at csgo's knives: they are extremely rare so rarity and owners through availability and demand decide the price on it in the market. So you have a knife being sold for over $100. Just a small bunch of pixels that offer nothing more than some cool animations(e.g butterfly knife) which happen to be only in your side - no other player is able to see you inspecting your knife and know how cool it looks. Same goes for some other rare items in dota2, and they are just parts from a set,not the complete set. On the other hand Riot sells the full character skin and no skin is priced over 3250 RP which is less than $20. In my opinion when I want to get a skin I want it at a fixed price, not to gamble to get it(spend over $300 on cases and keys, to get an item worth $100).

Gamers have terrible double standards. They complain about DLC and then we see stuff like this happen. You only have yourself to blame!

La diferencia es muy grande por lo que se en dota2 los items u objetos cambian el juego hacen la diferencia mientras que en el LOL no, nada hace la diferencia solo el nivel y las partidas es lo que hace la diferencia, yo juego lol hace 4 años y bueno lol lleva desde el 2007 osea ya llega a los 7 años en juego

I remember the times when I preordered League of Legends Deluxe Edition, IN STEAM. LOL.

Is it a turnover or a profit of $1billion? because that's not exactly the same.

F2P earn much more than games that has subscription.

No wonder that League of Legends has earned more, you have to buy/unlock the champions :/

it's a sad life

I wonder how much is Heroes of Newerth earning, which is a better game than Dota and LoL combined though.

They are true, LoL is the most played game in the world right now. Dota 2 in may had 7.86 million players, LoL in january 67 million (7.5 million concurrent at the daily peak)