{"id":45861,"date":"2012-10-13T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=45861"},"modified":"2012-10-15T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T08:26:15","slug":"what-is-the-most-played-game-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/45861-what-is-the-most-played-game-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"What is the most played game in the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"

League of Legends developer Riot Games has released another of their infographics, this one making a convincing case for League of Legends being the most played video game in the world.<\/p>\n

The claim comes on the back of the fact that LoL boasts more hours played per month than any other game. To put this in perspective, the Halo series has been played 2 billion hours since it began in 2004 \u2013 League of Legends, on the other hand, gets played over a billion hours every single month.<\/p>\n

Riot has more impressive stats as well \u2013 the Top 100 games on Steam attracted 650,000 concurrent users on the 10th of May \u2013 on an average day in July League of Legends had 3 million concurrent users blaming each other for their deaths.<\/p>\n

Amusingly, Riot compares its game\u2019s social media presence to that of Psy\u2019s Gangnam Style \u2013 with 4.1 million Facebook \u201clikes\u201d to 1.4 million.<\/p>\n

The popularity of the trinity of the MOBA titles \u2013 LoL, DotA 2 and Heroes of Newerth \u2013 leaves you wondering how much steam the genre actually has. Riot\u2019s offering is head and shoulders above the rest, most likely due to the simple fact that it got there first.<\/p>\n

Check out the infographic below:<\/p>\n

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Source: Eurogamer<\/a><\/h5>\n

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Hint: it boasts more hours played in 2 months than the Halo series in a lifetime<\/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":[2218,21,2249,5811,631,473,639,633],"class_list":["post-45861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-dota-2","tag-headline","tag-heroes-of-newerth","tag-hon","tag-league-of-legends","tag-lol","tag-moba","tag-riot-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45861","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=45861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45863,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45861\/revisions\/45863"}],"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=45861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}