| Rank | Prev Week | Game | Score | Hours Played | +/- % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | World of Warcraft | 50.6 | 67,659 | +100.2 |
| 2 | 1 | Guild Wars 2 | 30.5 | 40,773 | -20.8 |
| 3 | 3 | Star Wars: The Old Republic | 3.8 | 5,061 | +2.2 |
| 4 | 4 | Aion | 3.1 | 4,097 | -2.9 |
| 5 | 5 | Eve Online | 2.6 | 3,443 | +7.3 |
| 6 | 6 | Metin 2 | 2.4 | 3,161 | +7.9 |
| 7 | 7 | Lord of the Rings Online | 1.7 | 2,212 | -9.3 |
| 8 | 8 | APB: Reloaded | 1.5 | 2,022 | -5.1 |
| 9 | 9 | Need For Speed World | 1.2 | 1,555 | -13.5 |
| 10 | 11 | Star Trek Online | 1.0 | 1,383 | +9.7 |
| 11 | 10 | Vindictus | 0.9 | 1,267 | -22.6 |
| 12 | -- | Mabinogi | 0.9 | 1,160 | +6.4 |
Pandamonium broke out Sunday as the Xfire community spent 18% more hours playing MMORPGs than the week before. The increase was led, unsurprisingly, by World of Warcraft whose Mists of Pandaria expansion led to a 100.2% increase in the number of hours spent playing the game over the previous Sunday. While percentage-wise Vindictus saw the biggest decrease in play (-22.6%), the big loser was Guild Wars 2 as the Xfire community spent 20.8% time less playing the game compared to the week before.
Tobold Wins! Apparently The Digital Dozen has attracted the attention of Tobold and his readers who are basing a bet on which game would be more popular, World of Warcraft or Guild Wars 2, on the listings here. For the Sunday following the launch of the game, that was a sucker bet. I'm beginning to wonder how much time Tobold spent in Jita when he played Eve Online. A more interesting bet would be to compare the games on 4 November. I still think that WoW will still have more hours played but I'm not sure of that conclusion.
A Genre Bucks The Trend. This week as many games lost players to WoW's new expansion, the science-fiction games all saw increases in playtime. Star Trek Online led in percentage terms (+9.7%) while Eve Online led in actual hours gained (233). Even Star Wars: The Old Republic saw a gain of 2.2%. I guess that shows that the EA/Bioware game has shed most of the players it is going to lose. Either that or players of sci-fi games hate pandas.
Mabinogi's First Appearance. The Korean-import Mabinogi makes its first appearance in The Digital Dozen this week. I first heard of the Nexon game from Massively.com's Beau Hindman back when he was podcasting. The game sounds interesting, with no class system and a death penalty that includes the loss of experience and possibly gear in PvE. Throw in the fact that the world is loosely based on Irish mythology and if I didn't have enough games to play I might give the game a try.
EverQuest and EverQuest 2 don't make the list? or Vanguard. Or those players just don't use xfire.
ReplyDeleteRegarding Tobold's bet, perhaps Xfire isn't the best way to measure. Other data indicate that his is a pretty hollow victory so far, see Measuring MMO popularity with Google Trends.
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