Riot Games might look to tap into the gacha games market through R&D expansion in China
Riot Games, developer of League of Legends, Valorant, and other popular titles, recently announced it would invest in its development studio in China to expand its Research and Development (R&D) section. As such, the company is planning to develop game titles that could last decades into the future.
Riot expanding its list of titles is not uncommon, but considering it is in China, there is a growing feeling that the company might be looking to try its hand at gacha games. The Chinese market is heavily dominated by popular titles that fall into the gacha game category, such as Genshin Impact and Tower of Fantasy.
Therefore, it would not be surprising if Riot Games decides to jump into this territory and expand its wings for the purpose of reaching out to more players and enhancing its scope. This expansion would make a lot of sense as it would help bolster the company's income severalfold.
That aside, the gacha game titles mentioned earlier are also extremely popular worldwide, with Genshin Impact being a phenomenon. Hence, Riot Games will have a lot of scope to go global with those titles as well, should they feel the need.
Riot Games began its Chinese expansion last year itself. Since then, several people have been involved in the development of the company's current titles, namely Valorant, League of Legends, and Teamfight Tactics.
However, the fact that it is expanding its Research and Development section in China has raised quite a lot of eyebrows. This is because the president of Riot Games clearly mentioned in the presentation that the company will be building new games.
He also stated that new titles will be developed by keeping long-term service in mind. This could either mean MMORPGs like Final Fantasy and Black
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