It’s official…League of Legends has dethroned World of Warcraft as Most Played PC Game In The World.
LoL eased in under the radar about three years ago and barely made a splash in the casual gaming scene at the time. One of many of the “MOBA” or Multiplayer Online Battle Arena games that spawned off of Warcraft III and Defense of the Ancients, the game has gone above and beyond all of its competitors and totes a following of about 70 million registered accounts.
League of Legends acquired the prodigious title earlier this year when DLC Intelligence, a market research and consulting firm in conjunction with Xfire, gave out its annual playtimes of more than 21 million Xfire users. While the statistics didn’t cover every single gamer in the whole world, the statistics have been known to be an accurate instrument to judge the gaming world’s interests and has astounding results…
Hours played
League of Legends
1,292,502,456
World of Warcraft
622,378,909
Minecraft
371,635,651
Heroes of Newerth
184,520,156
Diablo III
172,907,605
Battlefield 3
171,852,550
MapleStory
165,503,651
StarCraft II
163,980,293
World Of Tanks
145,702,931
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
126,754,082
It seems that the winds have shifted in the favor of more casual online games that we can pick up and play, rather than the life consuming monoliths like World of Warcraft. The director of DLC Intelligence himself was astounded by the results the company had shown.
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The fact that online games such League of Legends eclipsed more than a billion hours of online game time in a year is simply incredible and a testament to the fundamental shift currently sweeping through the games industry. By comparison, Bungie recently announced that the Halo franchise surpassed two billion hours of online play, but that’s over a period of seven years.
David Cole, CEO of DFC Intelligence.
With the increasing push for competition in League of Legends by Riot and the ever increasing fanbase, it seems that the game plans to keep its throne for years to come.
Doesn't make it any less official to those of us who hadn't seen the statistics mate . Thought I'd share the glad tidings, because I was unaware of them until recently.
Sick and weird. It's okay but... # 1? IN MY FACE! There are SO many games which should be above. The players now a days are just noobish and don't try out all games.
And 70 million registered players don't mean that 70 million are playing it.
LOL is free to play, but it's also a game a lot of noobs are in.
It's really nice to see Battlefield 3 in the top!
This post has been edited by Aoenian: Dec 31 2012, 02:20 AM
Sick and weird. It's okay but... # 1? IN MY FACE! There are SO many games which should be above. The players now a days are just noobish and don't try out all games.
And 70 million registered players don't mean that 70 million are playing it.
LOL is free to play, but it's also a game a lot of noobs are in.
It's really nice to see Battlefield 3 in the top!
The 70mil accounts isn't relevant to the study. Its taken from xfire accounts and looks at playtime.
The 70mil accounts isn't relevant to the study. Its taken from xfire accounts and looks at playtime.
Yepp. And that sucks too. I've got many hours in LoL in Xfire because I've been afk. I also have 2 accounts because 1 region really sucked. So fuck this "study"!
Sick and weird. It's okay but... # 1? IN MY FACE! There are SO many games which should be above. The players now a days are just noobish and don't try out all games.
And 70 million registered players don't mean that 70 million are playing it.
LOL is free to play, but it's also a game a lot of noobs are in.
It's really nice to see Battlefield 3 in the top!
There are a lot of noobs in every game, even SC2 and other RTS. I understand what you mean though, that most playing LoL aren't real gamers, so they just stick with a crappy game because it's free. That isn't very true though. LoL is lots of fun, especially when you're with friends, and that's why people play it.
QUOTE(Feanor @ Dec 31 2012, 07:39 AM)
I don't think that many LoL players use Xfire tbh.
Agree. Very few of them even have any idea what it is. The argument that a low percentage of LoL players are true gamers actually works along with this. Many of them don't play all sorts of games and stick with LoL because it's free. Most people who fit into that category don't have any idea what xfire is though, so those types have very little effect on this survey.
We've known for about a year that LoL was more popular than WoW. This just confirms that it's gotten quite a ways ahead of it. It's not even close anymore. I was surprised by this, since most or least a lot of WoW players spend hours per day on it.
That Diablo 3 is on this list and not Diablo 2 makes this list shiiiiiit
While I agree, bear in mind this is an Xfire-based list. Diablo 2 came out back in 2000, while Xfire didn't debut until 2003 and didn't become terribly popular until 2005-2006. That's a massive chunk of D2's playtime that Xfire doesn't account for.
I don't doubt in the slightest that D2's actual total hours would far surpass D3's even now.
I don't doubt in the slightest that D2's actual total hours would far surpass D3's even now.
The survey was based on the past year. So no.
QUOTE(trucky @ Jan 1 2013, 12:55 PM)
Don't Riot have other means of measuring play-time other than xfire?
I'm not sure. Even if they do, you can't put LoLs total play time against other games' xfire time. That would, of course, put LoL way ahead. If every game had something like that, we could accurately compare them. That isn't the case though.
It’s official…League of Legends has dethroned World of Warcraft as Most Played PC Game In The World.
mmm
Kinda interesting statistics, but not really shocking with the stats being of the last year, and only of players logged into xfire.
So it would be 'Most Played PC Game In The World of the last year', which is still ace , just got me wondering what the most played PC game of all time would be.
I wonder what the most played video game, including arcade games, ever would be. I'm guessing some of the classic arcade games would be on top. The great thing about those games is that they're so timeless. They're still fun today, despite how cheap they are. I just wish they'd still have Donkey Kong and Mappy in some of the restaurants and smaller arcades, instead of those crappy hunting games.
LoL eased in under the radar about three years ago and barely made a splash in the casual gaming scene at the time. One of many of the “MOBA” or Multiplayer Online Battle Arena games that spawned off of Warcraft III and Defense of the Ancients, the game has gone above and beyond all of its competitors and totes a following of about 70 million registered accounts.
League of Legends acquired the prodigious title earlier this year when DLC Intelligence, a market research and consulting firm in conjunction with Xfire, gave out its annual playtimes of more than 21 million Xfire users. While the statistics didn’t cover every single gamer in the whole world, the statistics have been known to be an accurate instrument to judge the gaming world’s interests and has astounding results…
It seems that the winds have shifted in the favor of more casual online games that we can pick up and play, rather than the life consuming monoliths like World of Warcraft. The director of DLC Intelligence himself was astounded by the results the company had shown.
David Cole, CEO of DFC Intelligence.
With the increasing push for competition in League of Legends by Riot and the ever increasing fanbase, it seems that the game plans to keep its throne for years to come.
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