{"id":12798,"date":"2011-07-07T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"igame-online-s-5-most-popular-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/12798-igame-online-s-5-most-popular-games","title":{"rendered":"iGame Online\u2019s 5 most popular games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently caught up with iGame&rsquo;s online manager, Johnathan Smit, who shared some player stats regarding the 5 most popular games on the iGame network. Bear in mind that iGame no longer hosts a Call of Duty: Black Ops server due to the inherent difficulties associated with running a server on another provider&rsquo;s nework, and player numbers being &ldquo;intermittent&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iGame&rsquo;s 5 most played games<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/cod4_142863145.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Still a favourite among PC gamers, Smit revealed that around 1,200 unique CD keys log into the iGame CoD 4 servers on a daily basis. He believes that game&rsquo;s continued popularity is tied to the fact that the game runs well on older hardware and can be played without any international bandwidth. He acknowledges that Call of Duty: Black Ops has a large community of local players, but thinks that it is highly unlikely that it is larger than the CoD4 player-base.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Battlefield: Bad Company 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/BFBC2genSCRNradar_587384072.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"499\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bad Company 2 also runs on dedicated local servers, and has an established local community. Smit estimates that around 150 players log into the Bad Company 2 servers on a daily basis. Relatively high system requirements, and less action-orientated gameplay may contribute to its relative small size compared to CoD4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Brink<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brink_7_351861014.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"499\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brink has a relatively small but still fairly active community of dedicated players. According to Smit, it is considered a &ldquo;low-support&rdquo; game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Crysis 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crysis 2 enjoyed a significant uptake in players at launch, but failed to establish a significant core community of players.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crysis_2_255819777.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"499\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Homefront<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although the multiplayer component was generally praised by gamers and reviewers, THQ&rsquo;s answer to Call of Duty failed to hold onto a significant local player base.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Homefront_13_321012071.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"499\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do you play on the iGame servers? What are youre favourite online games?<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15478-Top-5-most-popular-games-on-the-iGame-servers?p=472104#post472104\" target=\"_self\">Let us know in the forums<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CoD 4 remains dominant in local online gaming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}