{"id":26559,"date":"2011-11-19T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=26559"},"modified":"2011-11-21T11:26:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T09:26:14","slug":"league-of-legends-userbase-overtakes-world-of-warcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/26559-league-of-legends-userbase-overtakes-world-of-warcraft","title":{"rendered":"League of Legends userbase overtakes World of Warcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the fierce battle of the MOBA games (read: DotA clones), a king has been crowned. Taking the throne with a staggering 11 million active players is League of Legends, a figure which now puts it ahead of online stalwart MMORPG World of Warcraft, which is currently sitting at 10.3 million.<\/p>\n

The information comes from the developers themselves, in the form of a newly released infographic. The wildly popular free-to-play<\/a> game, has a registered player-base of over 30 million, an online populace which rivals the population of Sudan.<\/p>\n

The game has an\u00a0 enormous amount of die-hards as well, with over four million of the actives being unable to go a single day without getting a round in. These players helped contribute to the more than one billion games of League of Legends which have been played since launch, and the slaughter of 200 billion minions. Think of the children!<\/p>\n

At peak times, League of Legends can hit 1.3 million concurrent players \u2013 compare this to Skyrim\u2019s 250,000 concurrent PC<\/a> player count and you get an idea of how popular the game really is.<\/p>\n

League of Legends is also a consistent favourite for competitive players, as the game was marketed heavily as an e-sport by Riot Games<\/a> who themselves have provided massive budgets for prize pools and organized competitions. Looks like it paid off.<\/p>\n

Check out more crazy numbers in the infographic below:<\/p>\n

\"League<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: PC Gamer<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

11 million users puts it ahead of Activision-Blizzard’s juggernaut<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":26567,"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":[2,3],"tags":[587,637,631,473,639,15397,633,635,641],"class_list":["post-26559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-activision","tag-dota","tag-league-of-legends","tag-lol","tag-moba","tag-pc","tag-riot-games","tag-world-of-warcraft","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26559","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26569,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26559\/revisions\/26569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}