| Rank | Prev Week | Game | Score | Hours Played | +/- % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | World of Warcraft | 45.1 | 38,051 | -9.8 |
| 2 | 2 | Guild Wars 2 | 23.8 | 20,043 | -10.7 |
| 3 | 3 | Star Wars: The Old Republic | 6.3 | 5,325 | +7.8 |
| 4 | 5 | Aion | 4.1 | 3,457 | -1.0 |
| 5 | 4 | The War Z (Alpha) | 4.0 | 3,400 | -5.5 |
| 6 | 6 | Eve Online | 3.8 | 3,184 | +6.1 |
| 7 | 8 | Lord of the Rings Online | 3.3 | 2,758 | +1.3 |
| 8 | 7 | Metin 2 | 3.0 | 2,519 | -10.2 |
| 9 | 9 | APB: Reloaded | 2.3 | 1,974 | -2.9 |
| 10 | 10 | Planetside 2 (Beta) | 1.6 | 1,349 | -14.8 |
| 11 | 12 | Need For Speed World | 1.4 | 1,184 | +0.4 |
| 12 | -- | Mabinogi | 1.2 | 1,042 | +8.9 |
Many players who use Xfire apparently took Sunday off as the number of hours spent playing MMORPGs fell by 12.1%. The non-beta games that saw the biggest decreases were Maple Story (-46.1%), Guild Wars 2 (-10.7%) and Metin 2 (-10.2%). Games bucking the downward trend were led by Mabinogi (+8.9%), Star Wars: The Old Republic (+7.8%) and Eve Online (+6.1%).
Technical Difficulties? I wonder if Xfire was experiencing some technical difficulties this past weekend that lowered the numbers for some games. For example, Star Trek Online fell from 1026 hours played on 4 November down to 11 hours Sunday.
A Week Early - I was not expecting big declines in World of Warcraft and Guild Wars 2 until next weekend due to Star Wars: The Old Republic going free-to-play on 15 November. I think a lot of players who tried SW:TOR but then left for WoW or GW2 will return to SW:TOR if only to finish up some of the stories. I doubt that SW:TOR will surpass GW2 but stranger things have happened.
Seven Days And Counting - Another F2P game scheduled to launch next week should shake up the listings. Planetside 2 launches on 20 November and opened its servers 24/7 last weekend. The beta still saw 14.8% fewer hours played Sunday compared to the week before but hopefully the bugs will be worked out for the final beta weekend.
I think you're seeing the result of internal problems with WoW. The game is having serious issues right now.
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