Tencent Expands Its Wings Into the MOBA Esports Realm
After the success of PUBG Mobile, which has now entered season 11, it seems that Tencent wants to expand its wings in the realm of MOBA esports. In order to expand esports development for their MOBA title Honor of Kings, Tencent plans to transform the esports game ecosystem.
In China, Tencent has confirmed that six Honor of Kings teams will be setting up their residences in highly connected cities.
The locations selected were Chengdu, Shanghai, Wuhan, Nanjing, Chongqing, and Guangzhou. This location was chosen because it takes into account the development of next-generation infrastructure that will be conducive to the growth of esports in that location.
Tencent Main Focus For Game Honor of Kings
In an effort to develop Tencent’s Honor of Kings game. There are several main focuses that must be addressed in building this game. Honor of Kings will focus on three important areas:
- Accelerate the growth of a professional team
- Local development, as well as
- International expansion
“We want to take Honor of Kings to the next level,”
Said Yijia Zhang, Chairman, King Pro League (KPL).
In addition, to grow the professional league, Tencent opened six new places in the semi-pro KPL G-League (KGL) that can compete with amateur teams. This new structure ensures more players can join the KPL.
The overseas division for Honor of Kings pro tournament, Korea King Pro League, will be changed and changed to King Pro League Global tour. This makes the tournament a global platform that will certainly continue to grow.
What’s the Difference Between Honor of Kings and Arena of Valor
Behind the success of Arena of Valor, it turns out that this game has a long history. And of course all of you will be wondering why this game has a different name in each country?
It turns out that Tencent is the publisher who came from China, first launched this game under the name Honor Of King or Kings Of Glory.
This game was deliberately released with different servers for each region, so there will be no Global server for this Tencent game. In each region that has this game released under a different name. Even so, this game still has the same gameplay, character design.
Follow in the footsteps of Moba Game Success
The Arena of Valor game was first created because it was inspired by Riot Games’ League of Legends, which is a subsidiary of Tencent. The LoL game that was released for PC devices can be said to be very successful and reap huge profits in various countries.
Seeing the success that LoL got, therefore Tencent tried to release a similar game but specifically for mobile devices. Carrying the name Honor Of King or Kings Of Glory Chinese version in November 2022, then released to several countries with different names.
While Honor of Kings is arguably the first game that became the forerunner of Arena Of Valor as it is today. This game is the first moba game made by Tencent in China published by Garena.
What is different from HoK with other versions is that you need to create an account at TencentQQ or use Wechat to log into this game. You can’t use your own TencenQQ account to log in to other countries’ versions of AoV games.
It’s interesting to wait for what surprises Tencent will present, which is now continuing to develop into one of the most famous game companies.
