Reaching 1 billion downloads as of July 2021, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is one of the first games that come to mind when MOBA is mentioned today. Celebrating its 5th year in the game world, let’s find out together how solid steps the team has taken in the story behind the success of the game.
First released in Brazil in July 2016, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang was released last September. 5th year in the gaming industry celebrated. In a short time in Brazil “Favorite Game of the Year” This game, which was chosen and reached millions of players from all over the world, has a history of taking very good steps.
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is one of the most played MOBA games on mobile platforms today. It is among the top 10 most downloaded games in the App Store. Reaching 1 billion downloads as of July 2021 Let’s take a closer look at the story of the game.
Hundreds of thousands of viewers have witnessed the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang league so far
Players from Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia on November 15, 2019 at the Axiata Arena Stadium in Malaysia For the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang championship It was a 5v5 fight.
The champion of the first Mobile Legends Professional League (MPL) was EVOS, beating RRQ, an Indonesian team like them, 4-3. The first esports tournament organized by Mobile Legends in total. 760 thousand people followed.
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang has made dozens of updates and optimizations in the last 5 years.
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang team has been dedicated to meeting the needs and troubleshooting of players since 2016. many updates and optimizations made. In fact, the game has changed so much during this time that the makers of the game and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang could not recognize the original version.
The producer of the game, Roger Yu, is about this change; “One day a colleague of mine took a screenshot of when we first released the game, and the changes were so overwhelming that we were all stunned. We’ve really made a lot of improvements over the years.” used the phrases.
3 months after its release, the game team that came to the aid of the players in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang consisted of only 30 people. With so few people on the team, feedback from hundreds of players in a week to be resolved quickly Of course it’s blocked. But now, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang’s core team includes more than a thousand people, which ensures that incoming issues are resolved as quickly as possible.
Initially, he had his team respond to players’ feedback. recognizing a 48-hour time frame Roger Yu is currently using this time as little as 4 hours in a reduced state.
The team faced major challenges in Southeast Asia during the localization phase
Perhaps one of the biggest challenges the team has faced so far has been to deliver the game seamlessly to players in Southeast Asia. However, due to economic difficulties, people cannot buy high-quality devices, lack of stable internet connection throughout the region Although the problems in network traffic and mobile legends made Mobile Legends: Bang Bang very difficult, the team managed to overcome these difficulties.
Of course, the problem with localization was not limited to Southeast Asia. The fact that the game was presented to players living in the Middle East caused a lot of trouble in terms of language. As you know, Arabic is a language written from right to left and its developers, change the interface completely for this case has had to. Although it may seem like only a language change at first glance, this work took the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang team almost 6 months.
Mobile Legends Bang Bang allowed economically struggling countries to access video games
In Southeast Asia, one of the first markets the team entered, the economic situation was not very encouraging. People living in this region were also staying away from gaming culture as they could not access high-quality devices. But with the team’s work, people in Southeast Asia accessed Mobile Legends: Bang Bang even if their device was of low quality and this allowed them not to miss out on the entertainment brought by the digital age.
The game continues to be appreciated by publishers.
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, so far on many platforms like Twitch It was adored by publishers. Brazilian publisher Zikzira, which has thousands of followers, used the following expressions for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang; “On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d give Mobile Legends: Bang Bang a 10 for the localization it did in Brazil. I think the most important thing in a game for Brazilian gamers is playability and framerate. What sets Mobile Legends apart from other games is that it’s smooth even on cheap phones. performance.”
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang continues to celebrate its 5th anniversary
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang celebrates its 5th anniversary it launched last September. The project comes with a series of updates called NEXT. It will continue until mid-November.
According to the statement made by the team, besides the enriched visuals, the players also Johnson “Optimus Prime” and X.Borg “Bumblebee” as with a richer selection of heroes and costumes will face.
Producer Roger Yu used the following statements about this collaboration between Transformers and the company; “These brands have taken a long time to gain their collaborative value, which is very close to our philosophy.”
Player satisfaction is more important to the team than success.
Roger Yu and crew at Mobile Legends: Bang Bang “Game as a Service” embraced his philosophy. Stating that the satisfaction and respect experienced by the players thanks to the game is more important than commercial success, Yu uses the following statements in the continuation of his statement; “The game is basically a creative work based on the understanding of the players, not the imagination of our designers. In other words, actors are the most fundamental contributor to our creative process.”