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Home News League Of Legends Is The World's Most Played Game With 32 Million+ Players

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League Of Legends Is The World's Most Played Game With 32 Million+ Players

Posted on Sunday, October 14 @ 09:18:37 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack

If you ever wondered what the most popular game on the planet was, today is your lucky day.

Riot Games have released a massive infographic image that shows everything you'd ever want to know about League of Legends' popularity. The sheet full of interesting facts includes the following:
  • 32 million monthly active players
  • 12 million daily active players
  • 3 million peak concurrent players
  • Over 1 billion play hours per month
  • 6.5 million deaths a day
To put these massive, inconceivable numbers in perspective, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 at its peak wasn't able to achieve even half the numbers that League of Legends has. Better yet, if you tally together all top 100 games on Steam you still wouldn't even see 1/5th of the popularity. Sure, you can argue that League of Legends is free, but accumulating in a single month the equivalent of half the total hours gamers spent in Halo during its lifetime deserves a round of applause.

League of Legends has done a fine job of retaining its playerbase despite Dota 2 gaining popularity month-over-month, and it's not even officially released. I'm sure Valve would love to see these numbers from their action RTS juggernaut, but it's going to take a lot of work to pull tens of millions of players away from the game they know and love.
Related Games:   Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, DotA 2, Halo, League of Legends
Tags:   League of Legends


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  • napsterxxl
    napsterxxl
    Joined: Mar 2006
    Posted: Oct 14th, 2012 at 10:31 am
    I dunno. the stats seems a bit skewed imo. The stats for steam games are from early May (or October, not sure of date format used) meaning that many players were still busy in school with reduced time for gaming, CoD stats are for Xbox only and LoL stats are averages of July, when school is already out and more people can play....that and LoL sucks compared to DOTA2 :p .
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  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Oct 14th, 2012 at 11:42 am
    What irritates me is when LoL players say "whats dota?"
    0 1
  • NecroWolf
    NecroWolf
    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Oct 14th, 2012 at 11:49 am
    Oh, cool, I didn't realize we were tracking ******* population. 32 million LoL players? Wow, that is a lot of douchebags. I haven't met a single LoL player I like.
    0 0
  • Lien
    Lien
    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Oct 14th, 2012 at 12:16 pm
    Sounds like someone been playing as Karma
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  • NecroWolf
    NecroWolf
    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Oct 14th, 2012 at 12:57 pm
    Haha, I just meant that the community is really unpleasant in general. Fun game, though.
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  • intoTheRain
    intoTheRain
    Joined: Jul 2006
    Posted: Oct 14th, 2012 at 3:15 pm
    i definitely agree. i have never seen a nastier community of gamers. the most unpleasent gaming community ive ever witness by about 100x
    0 0
  • Noritama
    Noritama
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Oct 14th, 2012 at 12:05 pm
    3 million people play an inferior game. That is what I gotten from that chart.
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  • Lien
    Lien
    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Oct 14th, 2012 at 12:18 pm
    How to troll LoL players.
    Step 1: enter a 6 v 6 Twisted Treeline game
    Step 2: call the champions... "Heroes"
    Step 3: ????
    Step 4: Profit!
    0 0
  • Noritama
    Noritama
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Oct 14th, 2012 at 12:29 pm
    Same thing for dota 2 but
    step 1. Enter Pub Game
    Step 2: Call Heroes "Champions"
    Step 3:???
    Step 4: Profit!
    0 0

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