In October the League of Legends turns 8 years old. During this time, the game went from the project of the dream of two friends-gamers to the leading e-sports discipline and the most popular game on PC, whose audience has already passed for 100 million active players monthly. How did the League manage to attract so many players? What are the main ingredients in the recipe for the success of the creation of Riot Games? The editors of LEOGAMING prepared a list of 9 items. 1. The correct implementation of the model of free-2-play At the end of zero, the overwhelming number of online games required either the purchase of a copy, or a subscription payment, or both at the same time. Free titles were very few, and those that were often had very hard and sassy donuts: gamers had to pay literally for each step, and those who regularly poured money into the game received a serious advantage over other users. In the "League" for the blood can only purchase cosmetic upgrades a...