The Digital Dozen: 9 April 2013

The rankings of the top twelve MMORPGs as determined by the players of the Xfire community from play on Sunday, 7 April 2013.  For more details about the methodology, click here.  Historical data can be found here.

Rank	Prev Week	Game	Score	Hours Played	+/- %
1	1	World of Warcraft	42.8	25,997	+5.3
2	2	Guild Wars 2	17.8	10,792	-4.1
3	3	Star Wars: The Old Republic	11.6	7,047	+9.1
4	4	Tera	6.2	3,777	-7.8
5	5	Aion	4.2	2,578	-7.0
6	6	Eve Online	4.0	2,452	+10.0
7	7	Planetside 2	2.8	1,697	-19.3
8	8	Lord of the Rings Online	2.7	1,640	+0.1
9	9	Runescape	2.1	1,288	-9.0
10	12	APB: Reloaded	2.1	1,279	+17.3
11	--	Defiance	1.9	1,172	--
12	10	Metin 2	1.7	1,109	-5.0

 

Total Digital Dozen Hours: 60,753

 

The Xfire community's time spent playing MMORPG's remained steady for a second week, only increasing on Sunday 1% compared to the week before.  Games seeing declines in playtime were led by Planetside 2 (-19.3%) and Metin 2 (-14.1%).  The games seeing the biggest jumps in hours played in percentage terms were APB: Reloaded (+17.3%) and Eve Online (+10.0%).

 

Defiance Debuts - Trion World's new MMOTPS (Massively Multi-Player Third Person Shooter) Defiance launched on 2 April.  Despite a rocky launch week and a player base split between between the PC, Xbox, and PS3, Defiance managed to land in the #11 spot this week.  Normally this would signal a short stint on The Digital Dozen, but the launch of the SyFy series of the same name on 15 April promises to bring in a fresh wave of players next week.

 

The War Z - Looking at the Xfire site shows that more players played The War Z last week than Metin 2 but Metin 2 is still on the list.  Why?  Because as far as I know The War Z was shut down last Tuesday due to a hacking attack.  The War Z forums were still shut down yesterday so I assume the game was down as well.  Therefore I will disregard any Xfire numbers for the game until I hear that the game is back on-line.