| Rank | Prev Week | Game | Score | Hours Played | +/- % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | World of Warcraft | 45.1 | 6,154 | -8.2 |
| 2 | 2 | Guild Wars 2 | 12.4 | 1,694 | -1.8 |
| 3 | 3 | Star Wars: The Old Republic | 10.2 | 1,386 | -17.2 |
| 4 | 4 | ArcheAge | 5.8 | 789 | -9.3 |
| 5 | 6 | EVE Online | 5.2 | 714 | +8.4 |
| 6 | 5 | Final Fantasy XIV | 5.2 | 707 | -9.6 |
| 7 | 7 | Aion | 3.9 | 537 | +10.7 |
| 8 | 10 | Lord of the Rings Online | 3.3 | 450 | +32.0 |
| 9 | 9 | Runescape | 3.1 | 421 | +6.3 |
| 10 | 8 | Tera | 2.5 | 340 | -29.8 |
| 11 | -- | Neverwinter | 1.8 | 242 | -5.1 |
| 12 | -- | APB: Reloaded | 1.6 | 220 | -12.0 |
Total Digital Dozen Hours: 13,654
The recent three week streak of the Xfire community increasing its time spent playing MMORPGs came to an end this weekend. On Sunday, Xfire members spent 6.8% less time playing its twelve most popular games compared to the week before. World of Warcraft (-547 hours) led the decline while Lord of the Rings Online (+109 hours) was the only game to post a triple-digit gain in playtime.
Destiny? - I can't tell a reason for this week's decline. Perhaps Destiny is finally having an effect on Xfire members. Destiny, as a console game, does not appear on Xfire, but may have an affect on the choice of some members of the Xfire community.
The Dead Marshes - Lord of the Rings Online saw a 32% increase in playtime over last week. The surprising fact is that Update 14.2, The Dead Marches, was released on 15 September. Usually a game will spike the Sunday following the release of an update and not wait two weeks. Perhaps the lag is another indication that Xfire is not proving itself such a reliable indicator of player behavior anymore. Either that, or a lot of Xfire members tried out the launch of ArcheAge and returned to LotRO this weekend.
As The DDoS Turns - EVE Online experienced an 8.4% increase in playtime on Sunday. Normally I would attribute that to excitement for the next release, Oceanus, which deployed today. But this week I'll attribute the increase to a slackening of the DDoS attacks that have plagued the Icelandic developer over the past few weeks. While at time slow, I did not hear of any attacks that kept players from logging into the game.
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