Mobile Legends : Bang Bang
Tournaments
Official tournaments
Official Mobile Legends tournaments have been held in the Southeast Asian region, including the annual Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asian Competition (MSC) and having their own local leagues such as the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League (MPL).[30][31][32]
The first Mobile Legends: Bang Bang World Championship, dubbed as M1, was held in Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 15 to 17 November 2019. The competition featured 16 teams across the world to battle it out for a prize pool of US$250,000.[33][34]
Mobile Legends was among the first game titles to be included as a medal event for esports at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games.[35][36][37]
Other tournaments
Philippines
- The Nationals, a franchised esports league in the Philippines, include Mobile Legends.[38]
- LIGA2KONTRIBIDA, a street battle event, was held at SM City North EDSA and SM Mall of Asia with Nadine Lustre as a brand ambassador. It is the second season of MLBB LIGA in the Philippines introduced in 2018 and was continued due to its success. MLBB LIGA tournaments are offline events aimed for fans and non-professional players.[39]
- A Mobile Legends: Bang Bang corporate league was added to Philippine Pro Gaming League, an esports event organized by Globe Telecom and MET Events.[40]
- Celebrity streamers Alodia Gosiengfiao, Ako si Dogie, Le Josette, Moymoy Palaboy, MRVii Gaming, SolidMB, Yasumeow, Yakou, YuriGaming, and Z4pnu were given challenges designed by Moonton during live streams via Crazy Legends, an event in partnership with Facebook Gaming.[41]
- Open Kitchen Kagitingan League, a Mobile Legends tournament with a prize pool of P100,000 was hosted in October 2019.[42]
- Star Magic hosted a Mobile Legends event with 4 teams of celebrities including The Voice Kids winner Elha Nympha, Myrtle Sarrosa, and actor Zaijian Jaranilla and being captained by streamers and professional gamers including Rojean delos Reyes, Bianca Yao, Billy "Z4pnu" Alfonzo, and Lance "Mr. Vii" Vicencio.[43]
- SM City Cebu hosted Cyberzone Game Fest 2019 with a Mobile Legends tournament.[44]
Campaigns
515 Unite
515 Unite is an annual global campaign launched in integrating online and offline Mobile Legends events such as cosplay competitions and roadshows.[45] The theme song for Mobile Legends 515 Unite 2019 event was "Bang Bang" sang by Shorelle.[46] In May 2020, Moonton released "Party Legends" on YouTube, Spotify, and other streaming services.[47]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 515 campaign for 2020 was limited to online events and competitions.[48]
Crazy Legends: Charity Homestand
In April 2020, Moonton partnered with Save the Children Philippines to help children in need due to the 2020 Luzon enhanced community quarantine by dedicating an online streaming event called Crazy Legends: Charity Homestand. Twenty streamers participated, including Dogie, ChooxTV, Z4pnu, and Eric Tai.[49]
Exclusivity Contract
In 2021, Moonton has allegedly disallowed MLBB esports organizations to create teams for League of Legends: Wild Rift and was criticized by the Team Secret CEO that the move "cannot be good from a healthy ecosystem or competitive integrity standpoint."[50][51][52] An unnamed source then later clarified that there is indeed an exclusivity contract but it is only optional and Moonton will give benefits to those who agree on the exclusivity. Some MLBB esports organizations still have teams for Wild Rift.[53]
Development
After Moonton finished developing its first game called Magic Rush: Heroes, released in 2015, they proceeded with developing the company's next project, a mobile multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game later titled Mobile Legends.[54] Mobile Legends was released by Moonton with the subtitle "5v5 MOBA" on 14 July 2016.[55] The game is distributed by Elex Tech in the United States.[56]
According to a scan of published apps on Google Play by Check Point Research last June 2019, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang was affected by CVE-2015-8271 (FFmpeg RTMP video streaming), a vulnerability that also affected popular apps like Facebook, Messenger, and SHAREit.[57][58]
In early 2020, the game was heavily affected by third-party plugins and scripts that allowed map-hacks prompting Moonton to publicly publish punishments made through its social media accounts revealing the account ID of the banned players.[59][60] Some accounts were also hacked due to exploits to Device ID that may have been due to the third-party scripts according to an official statement from Moonton.[61][62] In response, patch 1.4.86 enabled two-factor authentication when logging in to a new device.[63]
Update phase
MLBB 2.0
On July 18, 2019, Moonton announced MLBB 2.0 via its Epicon 2019 conference. MLBB 2.0 consists of an engine upgrade to a more recent version of the Unity game engine from version 4 to version 2017.[64][65] Moonton also promised faster loading times and start-up speed of up to 60%.[66] Other improvements of the update include reduced lag, improved character modelling, and the new in-game map Imperial Sanctuary.[67] The update helped increase the cross-platform social media views earned by the game from 56 million in September 2019 to 76 million the next month making the game ranked fourth of all channels from all gaming brands in the US.[68]
Project NEXT
Announced on June 5, 2020, Project NEXT is Moonton's next project for Mobile Legends including revamps to older heroes' 3D models, skill sets, stories, and voice lines. They also announced an improved targeting method called "Smart Targeting" improving accuracy.[69]
Swagg
ReplyDelete