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Aside from the map still having the Dota style, and the heroes and skill counts remaining unchanged, this game is now almost indistinguishable from Honor of Kings.

You have to understand, the previous Dota Mobile didn't even have a recall function; players could only return to base by purchasing a Town Portal Scroll, or else they had to walk back.

Previously, to buy equipment, you had to be at home base, or have a courier deliver it to you.

These iconic Dota features have all been removed and simplified.

Originally, many players had reasons to keep both games, but from this moment on, only one of Honor of Kings and Dota Mobile can survive.

In a dormitory at a university in Magic City, “Why is the map so small now? Teleportation is gone, and they actually gave us a recall button that lets us return to base anytime, anywhere.”

“They even put a health pack behind the towers!”

“And they cut down all the trees.”

“Even the Tower Defense, which had an extremely long cooldown and made allied buildings invincible, is gone.”

“Isn’t this just Honor of Kings?”

After the Dota Mobile update, the oldest roommate immediately logged into the game.

He had originally thought that Dota Mobile would at least retain some of Dota’s characteristics, but now it seems that Dota’s characteristics are gone, and all of Honor of Kings’ characteristics have arrived.

Looking at the screen on his phone, the oldest roommate felt a wave of unfamiliarity.

He was originally a Dota PC player and later switched to Dota Mobile.

Many of his QQ friends were also Dota Mobile users and often invited him to play together.

So, even though he later downloaded Honor of Kings and found it more fun and easier than Dota Mobile, he was one of the few people who played both games because many of his QQ friends remained on Dota Mobile, and he also really liked some of Dota Mobile’s mechanics.

And hearing the oldest roommate’s voice, the second oldest roommate’s voice came from the other side, “Oldest roommate, aren’t you tired of playing two games normally?”

“Just come to Honor of Kings.”

Hearing the second oldest roommate’s voice, the oldest roommate hesitated.

“Many of my high school friends are on Dota Mobile; we play together often.”

“Forget it, I’ll keep it.”

Just as the oldest roommate’s words fell, he suddenly received a message on his QQ.

Looking at this message, the oldest roommate was stunned.

The next second, he immediately uninstalled the dota mobile game version from his phone.

“Second oldest roommate, I’ve already uninstalled Dota Mobile.”

“My friends just told me they all uninstalled Dota Mobile and switched to Honor of Kings.”

Meanwhile, similar things were happening in many places besides this dormitory.

Some players who had stayed because of Dota Mobile’s mechanics basically uninstalled the game at this moment.

Many users could not accept such major changes.

So on that very day, the number of Dota Mobile users directly dropped by five million!

Adding the number of users Honor of Kings snatched away when Dota Mobile was silent the previous month, Dota Mobile’s daily active players now only stand at twenty million!

However, both Wang Mo and Penguin Group were very clear at this time that these twenty million users were just the beginning for the new Dota Mobile!

With Penguin’s capabilities, he could rapidly increase a large user base.

After all, Dota Mobile and Honor of Kings now looked indistinguishable, so players who stayed with Dota Mobile basically had no reason to switch to Honor of Kings.

Although many people switched to Honor of Kings because Dota Mobile copied it, more players stayed, unwilling to go through the extra effort.

However, even though Dota Mobile players had no reason to go to Honor of Kings, within Penguin’s departments, they could create reasons for Honor of Kings players to come to Dota Mobile.

The day after the Dota Mobile update, countless cross-promotional events with Dota Mobile were instantly publicized on various Penguin software platforms.

Especially on QQ, which currently has the most users, various cross-promotional events were launched.

Whether inviting old players or new user registrations, QQ would directly give out Q Coin rewards.

You should know that QQ is currently one of the software with the most daily active users in Yan Country, with an average daily active user count of over five hundred million!

So, leveraging QQ’s influence, the download volume of the new Dota Mobile exploded almost instantly.

In addition to Penguin Group’s various software, various advertisements related to the new version of Dota Mobile were also aggressively promoted on countless other internet platforms in Yan Country.

It had almost reached the level of viral marketing.

At this point in time, almost any game-related software you opened would display advertisements for the new Dota Mobile.

This kind of comprehensive and terrifying coverage promotion could indeed only be achieved by Penguin Group at present.

And the reward of downloading to receive Q Coins was even more enticing.

Many loyal Honor of Kings players couldn’t resist downloading Dota Mobile to claim Q Coins.

After all, Q Coins can be used across all of Penguin Group’s games.

Although Honor of Kings now has the competitive strength against Dota Mobile, in other types of games and on PC platforms, Penguin’s influence and number of games are still unmatched by other companies.

So, even though Dota Mobile’s user count had dropped to twenty million the previous day, on the second day, when Dota Mobile began to launch various events, in just a few days, Dota Mobile’s download volume directly increased by another twenty million!

Although many of these users who downloaded Dota Mobile only played PC games, and quite a few of these twenty million people who downloaded the game later uninstalled it after only logging in once, this number is still quite astonishing.

After all, even with a conversion rate of only one-third, it could bring a large user base to Dota Mobile.

Not to mention that Dota Mobile’s operations have become extremely simple, and it can also attract many potential mobile game players, just like Honor of Kings, backed by the big tree of QQ.