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Garena
Cover
Logo
Type
Public
Industry
Video game industry
Founded
2009, Singapore
Headquarters
Singapore
Key people
Forrest Li (CEO)
Parent
Tencent (29.7%)
Website
www.garena.com
Garena is a digital services company that engages in gaming, eSports, eCommerce and digital finance, primarily focusing on the Southeast Asian area. It was founded in Singapore in 2009, by current Chairman and Group CEO, Forrest Li. The parent company of Garena is Sea Limited, which also formerly called Garena.[1]
Garena handled League of Legends publishing for Southeast Asia from 2010–2022.[2]
Riot Games announced that their partnership with Garena would come to an end in 2022. Players were asked to migrate their account as soon as possible to ensure that the transition would go smoothly[3]. As of January 6th, 2023, the Garena SEA servers have been officially shut down and the new Riot SEA servers are now live. Account migration, however, will still continue for a while even after the Garena servers’ closure[4].
Garena Southeast Asia Region
Garena dedicated servers in:
- The Philippines
- Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau
- Vietnam
- Thailand
- Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia
- The Indonesian server was shut down on 16th May 2019 12:01 am WIB (GMT +7), merging the playerbase with the Singapore and Malaysian servers.[5]
- Indonesia
Each Server had its own teams and headquarters. Server transfer was not available to and from these servers.
Garena Platform
Garena Platform (formerly Garena+) acted as the launcher to login, install, download/update, and open the League of Legends client, which could not be launched independently. Patch releases were a bit delayed compared to other Riot servers.
There was no Normal Draft Pick in the SEA region.
Lucky Crates
Lucky Crate was a Garena-exclusive system which included various rewards such as Orange Essence, Blue Essence, Key Fragments, Hextech Chests, Masterwork Chests, Champion permanents, and/or summoner icons. By default, there were 5 Lucky Creates: Champion Top, Champion Jungle, Champion Mid, Champion Bot, and Champion Support. One crate would cost 
250.
Other types of Lucky Crates could appear during events.
Store and Riot Points
The region had different skin tier price per server due to the differences in average income per region. The available methods to get certain cosmetics also differed. Token cost for event items higher than Riot servers. Some cosmetic items available in Riot servers were locked behind events and paywall while some exclusive contents could be obtained. For instance, prestige skins were removed from Hextech Crafting in most Garena servers.
Apart from the Vietnam and Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau servers, each server followed the same skin rarity tier guideline of Riot Games with consistent pricing. In Vietnam server, skin price and skin tier were chosen based on the popularity of the champion and the skin line. In the Taiwanese server, prestige points were removed from Hextech crafting, and Prestige point skins could only be obtained through lottery events. In addition, Garena servers also had their own loot systems separated from Hextech Crafting. There were regular discount events instead of weekly skin sales.
Garena Shell was the currency used to purchase RP.
More info: Garena Shells to RP Update
Skin Pricing by Tier
Tier
Global[6]
PH/SG[7]
TW
VN
TH
Basic
520
520
105
145
40 – 150
67
75
Deluxe
750
750
210
60 – 230
135
Superior
975
975
270
60 – 230
225
Epic
1350
1350
375
120 – 396
450
Legendary
1820
1820
510
230 – 599
750
Ultimate
2775
3250
2775
3250
777
910
799
999
1500
3000
Special Events
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Rampage (2012-2017): an annual 2-day League of Legends event held in the Philippines. It featured different e-sport events such as Celebrity Showmatch, a 5v5 game between various local celebrities in the country, and champion cosplaying. The event ticket was categorized into 3 different classes: Basic, Premium, and Deluxe. Each class had its own exclusive giveaways (skins, jackets, t-shirts, etc.) and perks. -
Globe Conquerors Manila (2018-2019): the successor of Rampage. It established new events including, but not limited to, Cosplay Clash, Runeterra Art Event, Teamfight Tactics showdown, and SEA Invitational. Globe Conquerors Manila was put on hiatus due to the corona virus pandemic.
Trivia
- In January 2020, Garena Philippines dropped the price of Volcanic Wukong from
975
1
[8] - On July 9, 2018 2:16 PM GMT+8, there was an unauthorized modification of the League of Legends PH client lobby where a certain javascript code was inserted. This code performs blockchain mining on affected computers, which consumes CPU resources from these computers. Local players noticed that their client consumes a very high amount of CPU usage and slowdowns on their computers. League of Legends – Philippines Facebook page issued a statement here[9]
See Also
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