And free.

poor kids these days

Social aspect of LoL was the main draw to me. But now that everybody's a dick, literally no reason to log on unless you can get a big group of friends.

Im leaning twords the casual aspect of it. Games now a days are so dumbed down, I think the majority of people getting into games want to be good right away which is why LoL and games like it are so popular. compare the first cod game with the ones that are out now, or vanilla wow to MOP, even sc2 with SC1 (12 unit control groups ect).

Thats why i think LoL is more popular than dota, any 14 year old can pick it up and do fairly decent, which wont happen in dota. fewer people have the attention span to get good at dota

Lots of instant gratification and a small learning curve go a long way.

and challenger teams get free invites to tournaments etc

are you really bragging about being gold?

Looks like you got the whole point.

League is more popular because there is a bigger incentive to play whether it be the money and paid housing or socializing with your friends. Many people begin to play the game because it's quite frankly, more simple than most other games, since many people don't have the time to commit themselves to a game, they can just play a League game here and there. What makes the game difficult is teamwork involved in each match, making a game that is simple, very strategic, especially with the flood of characters in the game itself.

Well looking the fact that I wasn't ever gold, i got ranked to plat after my first 5 matches, I wouldn't call your progress "fast", and I'm nothing special.

This post was edited by Cpt_Ghost on Jul 6 2013 09:00am

I haven't played League but pretty much any game is better than SC2. Blizzard completely dropped the ball so hard and wasn't able to live up to the Starcraft name. Everything until now was fueled by hype. The game has no real longevity.