A development in mobile esports is under way with ESIC. The Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC) made their strategic partnership with MOONTON Games known by the public. MOONTON Games published the popular mobile game called, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. Thus, being the first to form an alliance with ESIC proves their strong commitment to giving the best players’ experience.
The Partnership at a Glance
On September 25, 2024, ESIC and MOONTON Games signed their collaboration into an agreement on ensuring competitive integrity. In this partnership, the organizations ought to address the challenges in the ethical standards across the mobile esports scene. Ultimately, this collaboration hopes to put brakes on the unfair plays going around the competitive environment.
Under the ESIC-MOONTON Games partnership, it addresses issues in information sharing, policy development, and educational campaigns. Furthermore, they will also make advancements on threat identification in the esports environment and risk management. The organizations focused on these aspects to ensure the creation of a secure and fair playing field in mobile esports.
MOONTON Games Joins ESIC’s Publisher Committee
With their strategic alliance, it is expected that MOONTON Games will become an ESIC’s Publisher Committee member. This allows the game publishing company to actively participate in providing industry insights that shape the integrity policies. Besides, it is also a great opportunity to strengthen their partnership impact among their peers in the esports scene.
Addressing Unique Challenges in Mobile Esports
Developing policies addressing the challenges is one of the primary goals upon the culmination of this partnership. In this collaboration, ESIC-MOONTON extends their effort on identifying the potential risks in the rapid development of mobile esports. Other than this, they will also collaboratively work on to mitigate the risks against an equal competitive environment. Ultimately, this partnership will ensure that they develop practices that promote fair play.
On This Partnership
Certainly, ESIC has been doubling its effort to promote and ensure the prevalence of competitive integrity amidst the quick growth of esports. More so, the CEO of ESIC, Stephen Hanna, expressed his excitement about this collaboration. He said,
“MOONTON Games has long been the leader in the global mobile esports space, and we are excited to welcome them as a partner in our ongoing efforts to protect the integrity of esports.”
ESIC sees this as another step to promote a secure competitive environment that will keep the scene thriving for years more.
Besides Hanna, the MOONTON Games’ Managing Director of Global Esports, Lucas Mao, is also delighted in this partnership. This strengthened MOONTON’s commitment to integrity, stating, “Professionalism and integrity have always been cornerstones of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang competitive esports.”
They believed that this partnership with ESIC would set a new standard of fairness. After all, this collaboration is a nod to reaffirm their commitment to foster a transparent and ethical gaming environment.
Significance for Mobile Esports
The accessibility of mobile devices now has increased the number of people engaged with mobile gaming. With this continued expansion, it became tougher to ensure that integrity is maintained and practiced across mobile esports titles. Thus, the ESIC-MOONTON Games collaboration signifies how crucial it is for developers to take a proactive approach on this matter. This is to keep the credibility and sustainability of mobile gaming.
No one really likes to play in a spoiled, cheat-plagued environment. Through this alliance, it seeks to create effects that go beyond the realm of MLBB. It wished to take the wheel of driving changes in the broader mobile gaming industry, such as:
- Establish new standards for integrity in the mobile esports scene.
- Promote the prioritization of fair play by encouraging other mobile game publishers.
- Improve the overall reputation of mobile esports gaming.
- Increase potential investments and sponsorships to the mobile esports industry.
Conclusion
This event marks a step forward in mobile esports towards promotion of competitive integrity. As the Esports Integrity Commission formed a partnership with MOONTON Games, they are set to bring new standards of fair play. ESIC has established their reputation as an organization towards crafting benchmark standards for fair play and ethics.
In between the flourishing competitive scene of mobile gaming is a heed to strengthen the initiatives on fairness. After all, it is the creation of a credible environment that helps keep the player base of these game titles.