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Considering who owns Riot now, the shortened game time makes sense.

Shazzbot69·7/8/2018, 10:38:38 PM·2 votes·1,069 views

So I heard from my friend that Riot is now owned by tencent, a Chinese company, and so it makes sense that Riot is trying to reduce game time. The majority of players in China plays in internet cafes where they often times have limited time to play, and so if league games last too long, then players may choose instead to play some other game. Tencent being a Chinese company has motivation to keep the game short so that more people will play it in internet cafes, and the cafes themselves would be more likely to deal with Tencent to get copies of league for their computers, seeing as IIRC, Riot has a special version of league for internet cafes.

TLDR: Riot is not reducing game length for viewers.

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8 Comments

Ralanr7/8/2018, 10:39:48 PM2 votes

Riot has been owned by Tencent for a while.

xxxDogmanxxx7/9/2018, 12:27:10 AM1 votes

Riot has been majority-owned by Tencent since February 2011.

Illabethe7/9/2018, 1:40:37 AM1 votes

Tencent is why League of Legends succeeds. They have owned it since Season 3, which is when it became an E-Sports and was rebranded as a F2P from a box purchase. They are why the game exploded.

And Riot/Tencent has ALWAYS pushed a 25 minute average game. That's nothing new. If you go back to season 4 patches, they literally told you as you were queuing up Expected game length was 20-35 minutes.

As for internet cafes: The game's primary audiences are Korea, Europe West, and North America. All have majority home internet access, and many have good bandwidth.

China's League is a different product on a closed portal circuit.