Does Garena own League of Legends?

Does Garena own League of Legends?

Wiki Targeted (Games) It was founded in Singapore in 2009, by current Chairman and Group CEO, Forrest Li. The parent company of Garena is Sea Limited, which also formerly called Garena.. Garena currently handles League of Legends publishing for Southeast Asia.

Is Garena LOL in maintenance?

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Why is LOL in Garena?

Garena is a company based in Singapore and Malaysia that has gotten the license to run the game in SEA and Taiwan. (SEA = South-East Asia). So what happened is, after acquiring the rights to run the game since if im not wrong 2011/2012, the servers are no longer regulated by Riot.

What did Garena do in League of Legends?

• The League of Legends community called Garena corrupt and discussed the possibility that this wasn't the first time the company had been involved in illegal activity. Last year, the Garena client was accused of infecting PCs with cryptocurrency mining malware.

Why is Garena no longer regulated by riot?

• (SEA = South-East Asia). So what happened is, after acquiring the rights to run the game since if im not wrong 2011/2012, the servers are no longer regulated by Riot. The amount of info they choose to release to the public are also reserved to themselves.

Who are all of the players in Garena?

• You may recognise a few names from LMS like Flash Wolves or AHQ. All in all, Garena is ran almost if not entirely independently from Riot, their servers are the only ones around that Riot does not have absolute control over.

How much money does Garena make a year?

• With Garena working actively on becoming listed, its valuation is over a billion dollars. As far as ping goes, it has more to do with limitations of infrastructure rather than a problem that Garena can throw money at. I get 9-13 ping in Singapore from home, playing from certain locations around Singapore, I've gotten 6 ping.