The success of Arcane 2 makes many fans of a legendary game "heartbroken".
Arcane 2's success made the legendary game community speak out in comparison
After Worlds 2024 ended, the League of Legends community continued to welcome a new event, the movie Arcane 2 - the sequel to the animated series based on the storylines of generals in Runeterra - the name of the world of League of Legends. . Part 2 of the series is to continue the events that took place in Piltover - Zaun as well as answer the origins of generals such as Jayce, Jinx, Vi, Caitlyn.... Similar to part 1, when just released, Arcane 2 became the talk of the world, and received 100% fresh tomatoes from Rotten Tomatoes.
Arcane 2 was a huge success even though it only released the first few episodes
However, this makes many DOTA 2 fans "heartbroken". On the social network Reddit, a player of the MOBA game considered a "rival" of League of Legends exclaimed: "Dragon's Blood is a mess and pathetic. Meanwhile, our TI is completely forgettable." , and I really forgot about it. Comparing the quality to Worlds 2024, we see familiar faces coming to TI this year Valve press Don't even bother to spend a small amount of money to run the Late Game Show."
An audience member of the DOTA 2 community "exclaimed" and was jealous of the success of Arcane 2 as well as of League of Legends.
Without waiting for Arcane 2, DOTA 2 would have been "drowned" a long time ago?
In fact, for many years now, DOTA 2 has proved to be "out of breath" compared to League of Legends. Viewership for DOTA 2's The International tournament has plummeted for the third year in a row. According to statistics, TI 2024 has decreased by 17%. The tournament itself does not attract huge prize money like every year anymore.
Nearly 7 million views of the 2024 World Championship final match
Meanwhile, with the continued success of T1 and Faker, League of Legends attracts a steadily increasing number of views each year. This year alone, there have been nearly 7 million views of the 2024 World Championship final. The continued success of Arcane 2 shows that although Riot does not have tournaments with sky-high prize money, it certainly has a larger community than DOTA. 2 lots.
DOTA 2's TI tournament this year dropped in both prize money and views
Therefore, it can be said that, regardless of the present, considering the two communities alone, League of Legends has been more developed than DOTA 2 for a long time. Arcane 2 is just another example to show the huge gap between two games that have been "rivals" for a long time.