| Rank | Prev Week | Game | Score | Hours Played | +/- % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | World of Warcraft | 38.9 | 32,617 | -5.8 |
| 2 | 2 | Guild Wars 2 | 21.3 | 17,855 | -32.8 |
| 3 | 3 | Star Wars: The Old Republic | 12.5 | 10,526 | -11.3 |
| 4 | -- | Planetside 2 | 6.7 | 5,608 | N/A |
| 5 | 4 | Aion | 3.9 | 3,270 | +1.5 |
| 6 | 5 | Eve Online | 3.7 | 3,137 | +0.5 |
| 7 | T6 | Lord of the Rings Online | 3.1 | 2,613 | +1.1 |
| 8 | T6 | Metin 2 | 2.8 | 2,387 | -7.6 |
| 9 | 8 | The War Z (Alpha) | 2.4 | 2,004 | -12.4 |
| 10 | 9 | APB: Reloaded | 1.8 | 1,480 | -2.4 |
| 11 | -- | Need For Speed World | 1.5 | 1,278 | -0.8 |
| 12 | 12 | Star Trek Online | 1.4 | 1,158 | -11.1 |
The Thanksgiving weekend in the United States took its toll on the gaming time of the Xfire community with 7.1% less time spent playing MMORPGs than the previous Sunday. The games facing the biggest declines were Guild Wars 2 (-32.8%) and the two games that fell off the list, Maple Story (-21.5%) and Rift (-20.5%). The three games that barely managed to defy the trend were Aion (+1.5%), Lord of the Rings Online (+1.1%) and Eve Online (+0.5%).
Planetside 2 debuts. While the beta version of SOE's Planetside 2 made appearances on The Digital Dozen, the game made its release debut on the list at #4 Sunday. Here are how some other games fared on their first full release weekend this year.
- Guild Wars 2: Rank #1 - 92,946 hours played
- Tera: Rank #3 - 9,039 hours played
- The Secret World: Rank #3 - 6,002 hours played.
Dog Bites Man. Once again the Xfire community showed its fondness for shiny new objects is short-lived. As expected GW2's The Lost Shores patch failed to maintain interest as playtime in the ArenaNet offering dropped 32.8%. Trion didn't fare much better as Rift saw a 20.5% decrease in playtime less than two weeks after the launch of The Storm Legion expansion. In comparison Bioware did rather well with the introduction of the free-to-play model to Star Wars: The Old Republic as the game only experienced an 11.3% decline in play.
My purely anecdotal view of the TG weekend was that I had played myself out with marathon sessions on Friday and Saturday. So come Sunday the family went out to the park and then to see a movie.
ReplyDeleteLast week's Lost Shore patch also coincided with a free trial invite which may have boosted numbers a bit beyond the call of the new content. That was, of course, missing this past Sunday.