10 Most played PC games in 2008

1. WoW

No contest. Blizzard has a winner here, to bad it's so bloody addictive. It's like electronic Heroin :eek:
 
I think one of the best places to see which games are currently being played a lot is at http://www.xfire.com/

I've never actually tried WoW. For some reason MMORPGs just don't really hold my interest. I played Guild Wars for a while and I looked at videos of WoW but in the end I prefer single player games or at best games like Left 4 Dead.
 
Solitude said:
I think one of the best places to see which games are currently being played a lot is at http://www.xfire.com/

I've never actually tried WoW. For some reason MMORPGs just don't really hold my interest. I played Guild Wars for a while and I looked at videos of WoW but in the end I prefer single player games or at best games like Left 4 Dead.
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I felt very much the same - I've played BF2 the longest (i.e. date I started and played regularly til now), but I've clocked up the most hours in WoW by a landslide. Something silly like 45 days of gaming. It's one TERRIBLE time sink though.
 
Solitude said:
I think one of the best places to see which games are currently being played a lot is at http://www.xfire.com/

I've never actually tried WoW. For some reason MMORPGs just don't really hold my interest. I played Guild Wars for a while and I looked at videos of WoW but in the end I prefer single player games or at best games like Left 4 Dead.
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I have always played 1 player PC games. Then I joined MyBB and thought I'll give GW's a bash. Played it for a while then thought I'll try WoW. That was 2 years ago and tried as I may I can not stop playing WoW. I have bought one game in that time and had issues with it then moved back to WoW :o

Voicy said:
I felt very much the same - I've played BF2 the longest (i.e. date I started and played regularly til now), but I've clocked up the most hours in WoW by a landslide. Something silly like 45 days of gaming. It's one TERRIBLE time sink though.
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That is 45days in combined hours for the people who don't know. It's 45 days of actual time played :eek:

Mine is prob. close to 100 or more days
 
After reading the replies I sat and ran some numbers:

I was off work for around 26 days.

I played WoW from around 8am to 4pm (minus housework and handyman stuff). So let us say 5 hours during the day.

I played from 8pm until midnight most week nights. That is another 4hours. I did not play much on the weekends.

So 9 hours a day x 5 days / week = 45hours per week. I clocked around 170 - 180 hours last month!! :eek:

I am so glad to be back at work. Now onto that website to see how I can get that 310% flapper! :p
 
call of duty 4 really was worth the buy- playing it one could actually feel the combat like you were almost there, i really loved it...it was very good indeed :)
 
nice

these are my top played games​

1. Burnout Paradise
2. Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and the Damned
3. Resident Evil 5
4. Street Fighter IV
5. Halo 3: ODST
6. Final Fantasy XIII
7. Brutal Legend
8. Fight Night Round 4
9. The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
10. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction
 
I have played

Warcraft
Warcraft III
Halo & Halo II
The Bards Tale (Brilliant game just wish I could play it on 360)
Devil May Cry 3 & 4
Fable
Balders Gate
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Myst (forget which one)
My Sims
Overlord
Oddworld: Abes Oddysee
Oddworld: Abes Exodus
Prince of Persia

And a number of games not on this list. ;)
 
faraz said:
these are my top played games​

1. Burnout Paradise
2. Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and the Damned
3. Resident Evil 5
4. Street Fighter IV
5. Halo 3: ODST
6. Final Fantasy XIII
7. Brutal Legend
8. Fight Night Round 4
9. The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
10. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction
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How can games that haven't been released be your top played games?
 
No surprise about WoW. Big winner, Blizzard know what they are doing. I have certainly contributed a lot of time to that title. :P
 
4. The Sims – AU 0.09% - 213 minutes per week

5. The Sims 2 – AU 0.086% - 291 minutes per week

6. Runescape – AU 0.084% - 451 minutes per week
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That's...I mean, woah. Seriously upsetting.
 
1. Crayon Physics =D
2. Team Fortress 2
3. Dead Space
4. Psychonauts (old is gold =D)
5. Beyond Good and Evil (...again :D)
6. Mirror's Edge
7. GTA IV
8. Call of Duty 5 (Nazi Zombies.....)
9. Far Cry 2
10. Sam and Max Season 2
 
!!! I can't believe D2 is up there at number 7. I never would have imagined. :O
And I would have thought CS would have been much larger. Wow.
 
1.) Fallout 3
2.) PGR 4
3.) Trickster Online
4.) Xmen vs Street Fighter
5.) Viva Pinata
6.) Fable 2
7.) Final Fantasy: Crisis Core
8.) Ridge Racer
9.) Final Fantasy 1
10.) Silent Hill: Origins
 
Check the minutes per week played, though. Even though CS and CS:S are at 9 and 10, CS players still play more per week overall than Sims players do, even though there are more Sims players on average.

CS:S actually seems to be played more minutes per week than COD4 is.

It's interesting for me to see that there are no strategy games on Nielssen's list... Not even StarCraft or WarCraft III. For some reason I always thought that StarCraft would be more popular/played than Diablo 2.

A quick comment on the article itself: I think it's important to provide sources for news articles, i.e. link to the document containing this information on Nielsen's site.

Solitude said:
I think one of the best places to see which games are currently being played a lot is at http://www.xfire.com/
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Xfire's stats correlate well on the top 2 games but I think too few Halo and Sims players are Xfire subscribers.

Solitude said:
I've never actually tried WoW. For some reason MMORPGs just don't really hold my interest. I played Guild Wars for a while and I looked at videos of WoW but in the end I prefer single player games or at best games like Left 4 Dead.
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I gave the 10-day WoW trial a whirl and while it was fun, I could put the game down at the end of the 10 days and not be remotely tempted to subscribe. It's not just the concept of subscribing to a game that puts me off, but the sheer amount of time it takes to achieve anything.

And fishing and cooking... Seriously?! :confused:

Guild Wars I enjoyed but the pace of the game can be a bit slow sometimes. MMOs lose out on the action-packed combat ARPGs like Diablo 2, Dungeon Siege and Titan Quest can offer due to infrastructure limitations. Dungeon Runners tries to be an online ARPG, but for a South African with a 400+ms ping it's torture to play.

Anyway, that was wildly off-topic...

Necuno said:
call of duty 4 really was worth the buy- playing it one could actually feel the combat like you were almost there, i really loved it...it was very good indeed :)
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QFT
 
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