Ummmm ...
Blizzard wants Riot's spot atop the ESports pyramid. They've been working on a micro-transaction sustained MMO with MOBA elements for quite some time. This isn't news to anyone who has played a **** Blizzard product in the last 5 years, because they tried to do it with D3 and couldn't kludge it in; same with Heart of the Swarm; with the Blizzard DOTA custom game for SC2.
Blizzard wants a piece of a pie it can't even touch.
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