League of Legends most-played PC game - Report

if anything console gaming is dead. Wii was the last great console. Now they are just low grade PCs with half assed features & restrictions, 99% multiplat games that run identical to the other consoles. You get 12 million logging into LOL daily, i dont think theres 3 million that log into PSN daily. And the best selling console game Black Ops 2 on the xbox does not pull in these numbers, you could put all the COD games together on the xbox and it wouldnt pull in those PC numbers

I personally dont like this game as a game but i really like the way they administer it. This is a small company that think in their gamers (not as other big companies that only care about their finances) and still keep large number of players and make money.

Most MMOs would need to think about it:

-FREE to play.

But they do money with:

- Costumization of your toon.

- Premiun Toons.

- Advertasing.

That is the simple solution for a gamer, can you hear EA?

Note: PC gaming will never die and actually most of the best games in the market started as a pc games then they were introduced to a different console ;).

The game deserves it. I love ARTS games, and LoL has to easily be my number 1, even if I do like Dota 2 better. I'm sure Dota 2 will be number one when they release the full build, but with its restricted beta, i don't care much because my friends are on LoL and thats where all the fun is at. Plus, unlike shooters, I love the forced teamwork the genre gives off, and it really has captured me in a way gaming has never been capable of when it started going online.

PC gaming is dying!

Meanwhill on the PC ... Most hours playing games in a year

O.K. So what exactly am I supposed to get from this pointless article? It does absolutely nothing for me.

I use Raptr, GS should return to use it instead of Playfire as well. Just sayin'!

Gamespot gave LoL a 6.0 rating - I guess someone at Riot forgot to put the editor (Kevin VanOrd) on the payroll.

What do you know. Sex sells.

I did my part in this.

People still use Xfire? Like really? The people that use it are stuck in the stone age... I mean look at the screenshots that get posted all the time, they're all from COD4.

1.3 billion hours = 148,491.8 YEARS.

imagine if people actually put that amount of time and effort into fixing the world's problems...

XFire eh.

*links to staff*

Surely some of them will rage about it being typed as XFire and not Xfire.

Anyway, Xfire needs more users, come join us!

I don't know anyone who plays League of Legends but I guess this could be right. ???

If XFIRE USER DATA says it, it must be true

A few problems with this data. 1) the users have to use XFire for the data to be collected and someone like me never uses XFire cause I hate that software. 2) Idling is an issue if your basing it off of # of hours. Someone could be launching LoL and walking away to do idk anything and come back 6 hours later. The data will always be skewed unless you get # of unique users matched with hours/games played and correlate it to time.

It might be the most played game in the world, but certainly not the best...

What they don't mention is how many unique users were recorded for the hours mentioned in the article.

What I'm getting at is (and this is just an example to make a point), 1.4 billion hours might not really be that much if it was spread across 500 million users.

A better record would be how many hours per player were recorded and base the average when compared to the ratio of players vs total hours played.

World of Warcraft has a less impressive number considering they've been around for a very long time and most likely have one of the highest unique player count.

I'd say that Minecraft is the most impressive. It's not free to play and it was only recently released as a full game, making those hours really stand out above the rest.