by Kaemon » 20 Nov 2011, 06:53
Personally I have the hypothesis that they want to have more than 100 Heroes (or close enough) for when Dota 2 comes out. Its an easy number to compare; and you can get some people just by telling them that Dota 2 has 105 heroes and LoL has 60.
But if LoL increases that number to 90 is not that big of a difference; and if they even get 106+ they can even claim to have more heroes in their game.
Thats what I think. Also, LoL population gets bored so they need new heroes.
And... most important (probably the key-piece) is that LoL is Free-to-Play, which means they only win money from people paying for Riot Points, and those are used by people who want to rush shopping the newest heroes and get a week of "free-owning" people that don't even know what skills that new hero has, since they came out so fast you can't even learn the previous one before a new one comes out. XD
If they didn't realese them so far; everyone that has already bought all the heroes/runes he wanted would had 6.300 points for getting is without paying; even if playing only casually.
I played a lot of LoL (because friends started playing it mind you; I would have remained really happy playing DotA); and to be honest I kinda only had fun with a couple of heroes (mostly Anivia).
However, I kept playing -AR > -SD > -RD (in that order of preference, and randoming if I ever ended up in an -AP) in Dota, and I LOVE 90 of the current 104 heroes (and I haven't played the latest 4). And the missing 10... I just happen to LIKE them, instead of LOVING. XD