The people who work at riot don't get paid, the game itself sees little change, esports makes more money than it costs, and riot's profit margins are probably soaring through the roof with how popular this game is.
SO where does this money go? Tencent?
Yeah, it's pretty much straight up profit, but it needs to be clear that Riot is deciding that for themselves. No one is telling them not to spend their billions on expanding and improving this game, they just don't want to over-expand too quickly.
Actually Riot employees make around 40k a year from what I've heard. Some of them in the upper positions make almost double that.
I think a lot of that money goes into paying bills, buying food and supporting their families, if they have families that need support.
I was just thinking, nothing concrete, but maybe they have a small tech-pool of workers and a larger marketting workforce. For dominion, they said basically... "no we don't have enough people to give you guys updates and balance stuff, we need everyone we can get to focus on SR". For idk how long, they had literally one person (MWAB) just running maintainence for Dominion, while also doing the same for ARAM and TT.
