The Japanese server League of Legends tripled its player base in 3 years

A common trend with aging multiplayer games is that for various reasons they often can't attract new players. This leads to a slow decline in the number of players because veteran players stop playing and there are no new players to replace them.

It is difficult to know if this is happening in League of Legends, because Riot Games does not publish this data, but from the recent focus to make the game available to new players, that the aging player is something to wake up. Anecdotically, as an eleven -year -old veteran, I feel that League of Legends probably passed its peak.

The Japanese League Legends is developing

However, as Suminernaem emphasized Reddit, the Japanese League League is not taken into account. According to OP.GG statistics – a website that monitors the account data using the Riot API interface – the number of active accounts on the Japanese server has tripled from 2022 from 85,000 to 260,000 since 2022.

The Japanese league server was launched in 2016, seven years after the start of the game. Japan has always been one of the least populated league servers, because Japan has a gaming culture of a dominant console that is the opposite of South Korea, one of the largest league servers, because this country's game culture is concentrated around a PC.

However, as the commentators in the thread speculated, Valorant became very popular in Japan, which in turn caused players to the next Riot flag game, League of Legends. This also applies to Japanese content and streamers creators who started as Valoranta players, but eventually started playing League of Legends.

The commentators chose the streamer K4sen as one of the main drivers of interest in the League of Legends in Japan because it often invites popular streamers and questions to participate in the League of Legends tournaments and events.

Unfortunately, for these new fans of the Japanese League League, the nation will not send the team to the World Championship for the first time in ten years, because both Japanese teams failed to qualify from the League of Legends Pacific Championship, a merged competition that includes teams from Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan and Australia.