League of Legends Has 27 Million Daily Players

[Gahars]

League of Legends, a Dota clone MOBA, is pretty popular. Seriously, the game is popular to an almost stupid degree. Like, goddamn, it's more popular than puppies and ice cream (separate or together).

How popular are talking here? Well...

Riot Games has just released some numbers about the active playerbase of League of Legends that are practically unbelievable. League of Legends now apparently boasts a trio of absolutely astonishing metrics. Riot reports that 27 million people play the game daily, while concurrent players peak at 7.5M. In total, 67 million players play the game every month.

All of these are enormous jumps from the already huge numbers from over a year ago. Last we heard, the game had 12 million daily players with 5 million concurrent and 32 million monthly. These new stats represent enormous upswings in every category for what was already the most popular game in the world. For context, longtime king of the PC gaming world, World of Warcraft,peaked at 12 million monthly players in 2010 (though those were $15 monthly subscribers). Across all platforms, every Call of Duty game combined had 40 million monthly players in 2011. If you want to consider it a game, Candy Crush has 46 million monthly players, though by some questionable metrics, that number is 100 or 200 million plus.

Forbes

Sorry, everybody else. You may be legends, but this is out of your league. (See, it's a joke, because I am using words from the title of the game in a different context.)

Seeing numbers like that, and looking at Riot's financial figures for 2013, it isn't hard to figure out why so many companies are jumping on the MOBA bandwagon as of late. From indies to juggernauts like Blizzard, there's a lot of money to be made here. The new phrase in the industry seems to be, "Mo' MOBA, mo' money."

Presumably the problems come later.

 

[Chaosruler]

so what? DoTA 2 has 27 million daily russians

 

[Black-Ice]

Riot make bucks.
So do all the most popular streamers and the professional players.

I'd much rather watch the EU LCS (league championship series) over most sports matches. E-Sports ftw
Except of course if Arsenal are in an important match

 

[BORTZ]

27 million people i should avoid on a daily basis.

 

[DaggerV]

Yeah, but how many of those are asian?

 

[Hells Malice]

Still a shit MOBA compared to Smite.

Also does anyone else just read the quote in Gahars post and nothing else?
Saves my face from the wrath of my palm quite often.

 

[Chaosruler]

27 million 6 billion people i should avoid on a daily basis.

Fix'd

 

[3bbb7]

and then theres me, who still can't grasp the concept of how people find this game so fun.
I mean I'll play it every now and then, but playing more than 2 games at once is too much, it just gets to repetitive, and it gets boring

Riot reports that 27 million people play the game daily, while concurrent players peak at 7.5M. In total, 67 million players play the game every month.

This is kind of confusing me. is it 27m unique or just on and off players?
If unique, how does that equal to 67m? If not, why did they word it like this?
It goes from 27m non-unique to 67m unique without changing the wording?

 

[ilman]

and then theres me, who still can't grasp the concept of how people find this game so fun.
I mean I'll play it every now and then, but playing more than 2 games at once is too much, it just gets to repetitive, and it gets boring

That was me when I played the game for the first time 9 months ago and after 5 games I decided it sucked and quit playing it.
Then 4 months afterwards I gave it another chance and now I'm Silver II...

 

[3bbb7]

That was me when I played the game for the first time 9 months ago and after 5 games I decided it sucked and quit playing it.
Then 4 months afterwards I gave it another chance and now I'm Silver II...

I've quit numerous times after trying to get back into it, started it like two years ago or something and have never really been into it. still level 16

 

[Black-Ice]

I've quit numerous times after trying to get back into it, started it like two years ago or something and have never really been into it. still level 16

Much better to get into it playing with friends. Solo is eh at times

 

[3bbb7]

Much better to get into it playing with friends. Solo is eh at times

heh, I've got a lot of friends who play. ones diamond division v which still blows my mind but theyre all level 30. I've tried playing with their smurf accounts but I just look stupid playing because theyre so much better

 

[Satangel]

so what? DoTA 2 has 27 million daily russians

Not really?

Riot make bucks.
So do all the most popular streamers and the professional players.

I'd much rather watch the EU LCS (league championship series) over most sports matches. E-Sports ftw
Except of course if Arsenal are in an important match

QFT. Except the Arsenal part, replace that with Manchester United!

Yeah, but how many of those are asian?

Does it matter? No, not at all.

Still a shit MOBA compared to Smite.

Also does anyone else just read the quote in Gahars post and nothing else?
Saves my face from the wrath of my palm quite often.

No, just no. You of course can have your opinion, but in general, LoL > everything else atm. So much content, so much fun, so much diversity and especially such an immersion. You can read/discuss about LoL all day long, you don't even need to search people who love the same game, there are just too many. Everywhere I go, I meet new LoL players, amazing.

and then theres me, who still can't grasp the concept of how people find this game so fun.
I mean I'll play it every now and then, but playing more than 2 games at once is too much, it just gets to repetitive, and it gets boring

I had the same idea, until I really started playing with friends, and learned the game together with them. Totally different experience really, and you learn so much quicker with 2 or more people. Less rage is always nice too of course


And this news doesn't surprise me 1 bit. Did you know that more people play LoL than baseball (all leagues) in the USA. Daily

 

[Black-Ice]

heh, I've got a lot of friends who play. ones diamond division v which still blows my mind but theyre all level 30. I've tried playing with their smurf accounts but I just look stupid playing because theyre so much better

I guess LoL grew on me coz all my friends started at the same time as me. Also we started playing after finishing secondary school, in that long summer where nothing mattered

Manchester United!

Moyes

 

[Hells Malice]

No, just no. You of course can have your opinion, but in general, LoL > everything else atm. So much content, so much fun, so much diversity and especially such an immersion. You can read/discuss about LoL all day long, you don't even need to search people who love the same game, there are just too many. Everywhere I go, I meet new LoL players, amazing.

I guess I just prefer games that actually require some skill and not just knowledge of how the game works to be the best.
But hey we all have our preferences.
The community is a moot point for me. Sure it's nice but I really don't give a shit if I can super easily find people who play it or not, it's easy to find people who play any game.

 

[Satangel]

I guess I just prefer games that actually require some skill and not just knowledge of how the game works to be the best.
But hey we all have our preferences.
The community is a moot point for me. Sure it's nice but I really don't give a shit if I can super easily find people who play it or not, it's easy to find people who play any game.

Meh, you can't say lasthitting minions, map knowledge, and some champions doesn't require skill. Not to mention timing and just general reflexes.

Community is terrible, true. Nothing I can say about that, except play with friends.

 

[Black-Ice]

I guess I just prefer games that actually require some skill.

LoL requires more skill than Smite. The only thing hard about smite is their weird controls.

 

[Arras]

LoL requires more skill than Smite. The only thing hard about smite is their weird controls.

And aiming. I tried playing Ra (basically a guy with tons of lasers) and missed fucking everything.

 

[PizzaPino]

so what? DoTA 2 has 27 million daily russians

Not really?

you don't get the joke.

 

[nryn99]

and then theres me, who still can't grasp the concept of how people find this game so fun.
I mean I'll play it every now and then, but playing more than 2 games at once is too much, it just gets to repetitive, and it gets boring

It becomes boring if you play the same hero/champion. that's why in dota i almost always -random or when I don't, I rarely play the same hero twice in a row and never thrice.

Meh, you can't say lasthitting minions, map knowledge, and some champions doesn't require skill. Not to mention timing and just general reflexes.

Community is terrible, true. Nothing I can say about that, except play with friends.

I still dislike how slow champions move compared to dota heros though. Lol feels slow compared to dota 2.