The rankings of the top twelve MMORPGs as determined by the players
of the Xfire community from play on Sunday, 19 May 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 | 37.2 | 18,844 | -2.7 |
| 2 | 2 | Guild Wars 2 | 16.9 | 8,548 | -6.8 |
| 3 | 4 | Star Wars: The Old Republic | 11.7 | 5,922 | +6.3 |
| 4 | 3 | Neverwinter | 8.4 | 4,277 | -45.9 |
| 5 | 5 | EVE Online | 5.2 | 2,628 | +1.4 |
| 6 | 6 | Tera | 4.8 | 2,433 | +0.6 |
| 7 | 7 | Aion | 4.4 | 2,251 | -4.5 |
| 8 | 8 | Planetside 2 | 2.6 | 1,311 | -7.9 |
| 9 | 9 | Lord of the Rings Online | 2.5 | 1,287 | -2.1 |
| 10 | 10 | Ragnarok Online 2 | 2.2 | 1,103 | -8.3 |
| 11 | -- | APB: Reloaded | 2.2 | 1,080 | +15.3 |
| 12 | 11 | Need For Speed World | 2.1 | 992 | -2.4 |
Total Digital Dozen Hours: 50,676
Sunday saw another big drop in the amount of time the Xfire community spent playing the most popular MMORPGs. The 8.3% decline in time spent playing games in the genre was led by declines in Neverwinter (-45.9%) and Metin 2 (-22.3%). Games bucking the trend were led by APB: Reloaded (+15.3%) and Star Wars: The Old Republic (+6.3%).
Rollin', rollin', rollin' - Part of Sunday's decline is explained by the decline in Neverwinter. The Perfect World beta was interrupted by a massive exploit that resulted in a 7-hour rollback. Once the exploit was announced, many players apparently stopped playing fearing that a rollback would occur.
It's How You Look - Star Wars: The Old Republic saw a 6.3% increase in time following the release of Game Update 2.1: Customization. The update included a new race and the introduction of the character creator into the Fleet areas.
No Cannibals - Last week CCP's MMOFPS DUST 514 officially launched. One of the Icenlandic game company's objectives was to not see massive players shift from their flagship game EVE Online to play DUST. The goal was achieved at least among the Xfire community as the EVE playtime rose 1.4% while DUST saw a peak concurrent user mark of 9,255 set Sunday.
Data Updated - As a bookkeeping note, I have updated the Google document with the latest data.
Not sure how DOTLAN picks up API data for display but all the dust corps are showing up under EVE alliances and counting as additional bodies for EVE. Wondering if +1.4% for EVE = 9200 Dust Bunnies getting counted.
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The 1.4% was increase in the Xfire numbers, not from EVE. Xfire can't pick up DUST because it is on the PS3.
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