LoL - the most played PC game

http://www.gamespot.com/news/league-of-l...rt-6386428

Over a billion hours played. Impressive.

The question is...

How many of those hours are just AFKers, or chatters compared to actual players?

Or does Xfire ONLY record you as playing when you're in a match? I forget how Xfire works for LoL.

If it only records when you're in match...that's rather impressive considering it's not that way for other games. If it records as long as any part of the client is up...then a large majority of those hours could just be AFKers, people in queue, or just chatters in general.

Well, according to the handy infographic Riot just put up, it is the most played game in the world right now.

[IMGSPOILER]http://majorleagueoflegends.s3.amazonaws.com/lol_infographic.png[/IMGSPOILER]

All I can say is lol

Is League of Legends fun? I actually never tried it.

Is League of Legends fun? I actually never tried it.

No we just play it because we hate ourselves.


WHAT DO YOU THINK?

It can be fun occasionally but mainly it's very addicting IMO.

The question is...

How many of those hours are just AFKers, or chatters compared to actual players?

Or does Xfire ONLY record you as playing when you're in a match? I forget how Xfire works for LoL.

If it only records when you're in match...that's rather impressive considering it's not that way for other games. If it records as long as any part of the client is up...then a large majority of those hours could just be AFKers, people in queue, or just chatters in general.

It records as long as LolClient.exe is running which is the lobby.

The Teemo deaths made me lol.

>Xfire
>Works anytime the game is online, doesn't have to actually be ingame.
Yeah, nah.
Also it only counts EU and NA.

Most played game my ass.

I don't think the xFire thing records people who don't have the program because a bunch of my friends don't have it and they play LoL.

No we just play it because we hate ourselves.


WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Then there's MapleStory...

Oh wow, I'm so, so, so, so surprised.
Seriously, it doesn't take rocket science to know this....but I never expected the stats to be...well, this. Yeesh, congrats.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/league-of-l...rt-6386428

Over a billion hours played. Impressive.

*per month

Impressive...monthly?

Am I the only one here who regularly has fun playing the game?

The question is...

How many of those hours are just AFKers, or chatters compared to actual players?

Or does Xfire ONLY record you as playing when you're in a match? I forget how Xfire works for LoL.

If it only records when you're in match...that's rather impressive considering it's not that way for other games. If it records as long as any part of the client is up...then a large majority of those hours could just be AFKers, people in queue, or just chatters in general.

Let's do some math! Pieces of info I don't have a rough source of is how many times Teemo dies per match.

75 Teemo deaths/second * Teemo match/5 deaths = 15 Teemo matches / sec

But Teemo doesn't exist in every single match. According to lolking.net, he gets picked roughly 10% of the time. In blinds, it is also possible for him to show up twice in a single match. So...

15 Teemo matches/sec * 9 matches/ 1 Teemo match = 135 matches / sec

135 matches / sec * 10 players / match = 135 matches / sec

Now to calculate total time played...

135 matches/sec * 86400 sec/day * 356 days/year * 1 year/12 month = 346,032,000 matches/month

346,032,000 matches/month * 38 minutes/SR match * 10 players/SR match * 1hr/60min = 2,191,536,000 hours/month

Conclusion? Well, that's only how many hours are wasted on Summoner's Rift, the most popular map. There's also Dominion (he's semi-popular there), Twisted Treeline (uh...), bot games, and custom games (a minority). And though I hope they're not that dense to include this, there's also spectator mode. Having said that, I'm inclined to believe there's some afking figured in there. Damn son, that's a lot of hours xD This doesn't include the other game modes: Twisted Treeline, Dominion, bot games, and custom games.


EDIT: Forgot to include the fact that there are 10 players per match. Derp.

Is League of Legends fun? I actually never tried it.

It's a lot of fun, especially when you have a few friends to join you. For beginners it's hard because the learning curve is rather steep but once you've got some of the basics down you'll die less and have more fun.

I'm still not going to play it. Congrats though.