
Gold can be used to purchase items at the shop to change specific attributes of the character depending on the item bought. With experience points, players can unlock their characters' abilities or further augment the power of their existing abilities.


Honor of Kings is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game in which the player controls a character with unique abilities to kill non-player characters and opponents to gain experience points (XP) and gold. About 95.6 percent of Honor of Kings' revenue was from China, followed by 1.6 percent from Thailand. In February 2021, Honor of Kings was the second-highest earning mobile game worldwide for February 2021, with $218.5 million in gross revenue, which represented 57.2 percent year-over-year growth from February 2020. Different account types-QQ and/or WeChat-cannot access the other's matchmaking queue or their online status, even when using the same platform. If two players use the same account type on different mobile platforms (for example, both have WeChat accounts, but one player uses an iOS device and the other uses an Android device), cross-platform multiplayer is possible, and with the latest update on September 24, 2020, a player can add friends and invite people from different platforms to guilds. Honor of Kings (HoK) is a quick-match (15–20 minutes) mobile multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game.Įither a Tencent QQ account or a WeChat account is required to play the game. In June 2022, Level Infinite, the publisher of Arena of Valor, announced that Honor of Kings would be released globally by the end of 2022. Additionally, it is one of the most downloaded apps globally. As of November 2020, Honor of Kings had over 100M daily active players, making it one of the most popular games in the world, as well as the highest-grossing mobile game of all time with over $1.1 million in revenue generated. An international adaptation, titled Arena of Valor, was released in October 2020 it utilizes the same game engine and UI design(changed in 2019) but with greatly altered heroes to accommodate the Western market. Released in 2015, it has become one of the most relevant MOBA games in mainland China.

Honor of Kings ( simplified Chinese: 王者荣耀 traditional Chinese: 王者榮耀 pinyin: Wángzhě Róngyào, unofficially translated as " King of Glory," or alternatively transliterated as Wangzhe Rongyao) is a multiplayer online battle arena developed by TiMi Studio Group and published by Tencent Games for the iOS and Android mobile platforms in Mainland China.
