HoN's 100th hero weekend. 92k concurrent players online.

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Took HoN a while, but it has now officially overtook Counter-Strike as the most played Mutliplayer game (non MMORPG) next to LoL. Question is how and why? Most games loose their player numbers over the years, HoN seems to be gaining them. DOTA2 and it's closed beta which feels like it's taking forever might also have gotten to people tired of waiting. Blizzard DOTA, war3 DotA, LoL, HoN, DOTA2, it's like world war for fanboys where no one is willing to concede...
That means growth in one of the games will result in growth in the other.

68,304 71,503 Counter-Strike
55,984 55,984 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
55,757 55,757 Team Fortress 2
53,497 53,497 Counter-Strike: Source
51,968 51,968 Football Manager 2012
50,379 50,379 Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 - Multiplayer
24,447 24,447 Sid Meier's Civilization V
24,381 24,398 Dota 2
12,564 13,216 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer
12,187 12,187 PAYDAY The Heist
 
Interesting, I guess the whole going free-to-play things probably helped. You can't really say much about DOTA2's numbers since the biggest bottleneck there is just accessibility and the lack of invites.
 
Just hit the 100k mark. It appears Garena has been responsible for the sudden increase, they have starred to aggressively market LoL and HoN, and allowed SEA players to "trade in" their DotA accounts. They also hosted a huge tourney with a pretty big cash price.
So the partnership is finally working in HoN's favor.

No idea how DOTA2 is gonna try and compete in the SEA market without Garena.
 
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