why is Lol's player count is 7-10x times more than Dota2's ?

[brics player]

just curious...

edit: I do believe dota2 gameplay is more fun than league

[Danaie]

The audience, you'll see more kids playing LOL than Dota.

[76561199830540861]

Originally posted by brics player:

just curious...

there are no cheaters like in Dota

[76561199829919156]

LOL is played by the Chinese. The Russians play Dota.

[GreatGreyShark]

cheters are everywhere the problem is when you become target by multiple

[Asbak]

league is for kids, dota is more hardcore. And sadly more russians.

[YONGSINNER]

1. League is easier to start with.
2. League can be run at any calculator.
3. Much more content creators, not just people who upload their gameplay.
4. Big and established Runterra universe, greatly written like LotR.
5. Advertisment and communication.

[GreatGreyShark]

what content are you referring to?

[Dinsdale]

Originally posted by brics player:

just curious...

edit: I do believe dota2 gameplay is more fun than league

LoL started out as a "new" and fresh game, so newer players got more into it that way, the advertising and marketing help it further along.

Dota 2 came in later and the playerbase mostly came from the old wc3 dota community and HoN. The community and game wasn't really new and fresh. Dota 2 also lost some crucial partners for localization of Dota 2, the company that was set to do the
localization in south korea dropped dota 2 and went with League of Legends instead.

Valve never really push their games as they dont need to, they got other franchises and services. Riot more or less only had LoL and it was important for that game to do well for them. Now Riot is just another game dev with multiple focuses and LoL is starting to suffer the same lack of attention from devs as Dota 2 is getting.

[Weakside Wictor]

Originally posted by YONGSINNER:

1. League is easier to start with.
2. League can be run at any calculator.
3. Much more content creators, not just people who upload their gameplay.
4. Big and established Runterra universe, greatly written like LotR.
5. Advertisment and communication.

Pretty much this.
Also :
- Not as smurf infested as Dota
- Matchmaking in general is a lot more fair
- Doesn't have pause
- Doesn't have someone every game disconnecting non-stop
- Doesn't have games where you flat out lose due to 4v5
- You get a serious warning after ONE leave of a game and won't take you long to get banned
- Riot generally isn't afraid to ban accounts that hinder the community
- Does have Surrender

[will]

Originally posted by brics player:

just curious...

edit: I do believe dota2 gameplay is more fun than league

They don't tune their EOMM the same way Dota does it.
They rig matchs differently, and they are more successfull to please their customers.

Both rig matchs. Both are scam (it's not free at all).
But they do it differently.

[Lady Alcina Dimitrescu]

Because cute E-Girl characters such as:

Lux
Seraphine
Karma
Lulu
Soraka
Janna
Ahri
Miss Fortune

etc etc.

[oldschool]

Originally posted by Weakside Wictor:

- Doesn't have games where you flat out lose due to 4v5

wait your games are 4v5, thats not fair mine are 1v9

[Shendelzare]

Originally posted by Lady Alcina Dimitrescu:

Because cute E-Girl characters such as:

Lux
Seraphine
Karma
Lulu
Soraka
Janna
Ahri
Miss Fortune

etc etc.

This. The characters aren't considered unattractive like they are for Dota's characters. A lot of people don't like the dark color palette, and the way the characters look. Impo the designs are more of a visually appealing because they're all conventionally attractive. There is no one that's supposed to just be terrifying like Brood, or someone that doesn't fit into the standards.

[Albert]

Originally posted by Albert:

Originally posted by brics player:

just curious...

edit: I do believe dota2 gameplay is more fun than league

Because it was released 4 years prior, in 2009, gaining lots of players immediately who stuck to it, while Dota 2 came in 2013. Doat 1 was just a custom map on battle.net, so it didn't have a big reach.

Also, LoL is much more noob and child friendly, so it caters to a bigger playerbase.

[JJ, Professional Fool]

League caters to the free to play masses and the esports scene is much larger. Used to give incentive via crate drops, twitch events and free seasonal loot for the player base.

Dota does less coddling of the player base and promotes rarely at all. The crowd on dota is more weathered and desire the challenge dota provides. You kinda want to want to be here sort of mindset. Gets popping for events but dota does not have a seasonal format or passes like winter and fall etc. More on taking money less on giving.

So freeloading kids hate spending and if they are going to waste hundreds of hours on a free to play might as well get something for the time spent deal. That's my take on it. Dota is older players, League is younger. Simple as that.