By the end of the year, League of Legends had more than 100,000 concurrent players, and two years later Riot Games would sell a majority stake to the Chinese conglomerate Tencent for a whopping $400 million. Riot became a titan of the video game industry, with a sprawling campus in Santa Monica and an army of recruiters who began calling Blizzard employees and offering to double their salaries if they came to work on League of Legends
