Xfire Statistics: World Of Warcraft Ruling
Latest stats show online health galore...
Online gaming stats tracker, Viacom-owned Xfire has released its second round of ‘Xstatics’, showing figures from January 2006 to March 2007.
Bear in mind that, despite some talks with Sony for a PS3 version of Untold Legends Dark Kingdom, "our PlayStation 3 launch title", according to Sony Online Entertainment's Chris Kramer, Xfire stats don't take into consideration Xbox or PlayStation titles.
Frederic Descamps, senior director of marketing for Xfire, is quoted as telling the world, “In this release of Xstatics, we have Bonus Stats showing ten months worth of World of Warcraft data, the top ten games by number of screenshots and the top ten free-to-play online games.”
The latest available Top 20 Games according to Xfire (with average daily hours of play included) are:
1. World of Warcraft 390,703
2. Counter-Strike Source 157,187
3. Call of Duty 2 Multiplayer 145,030
4. Battlefield 263,615
5. Guild Wars 47,802
6. Counter-Strike 1.6 37,549
7. Silkroad Online 34,406
8. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory 32,832
9. Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne 32,145
10. Battlefield 2142 28,310
11. Command & Conquer 326,099
12. Call of Duty Multiplayer 19,940
13. Call of Duty United Offensive 17,993
14. WarRock 13,008
15. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-Shadow of Chernobyl 11,578
16. MapleStory 10,860
17. Halo 10,594
18. Diablo II - Lord of Destruction 10,469
19. America's Army: Special Forces 10,405
20. Eve Online 9,565
Okay, so nobody is keeling over with shock that WoW is now more lively and profitable than a smallish north European country on a Sunday in February.
What is more interesting - unless you’re a WoW aficionado in which case nothing is more interesting – is the fact that free-to-play games such as Silkroad Online (No: 7), War Rock (No: 14), MapleStory (No: 16) feature prominently. These are Korean games which appear to have impacted the European and North American publishers' domains.
Is this the start of something bigger?
Xfire was founded in 2003 by Dennis "Thresh" Fong (World Champion of Quake) and Mike Cassidy (former CEO of Direct Hit) as a server and game-agnostic way of matching up players online. According to its own blurb, Xfire is "...a free tool that automatically keeps track of when and where gamers are playing PC games online and lets their friends join them easily.”
For the full stats, click right here.
Bear in mind that, despite some talks with Sony for a PS3 version of Untold Legends Dark Kingdom, "our PlayStation 3 launch title", according to Sony Online Entertainment's Chris Kramer, Xfire stats don't take into consideration Xbox or PlayStation titles.
Frederic Descamps, senior director of marketing for Xfire, is quoted as telling the world, “In this release of Xstatics, we have Bonus Stats showing ten months worth of World of Warcraft data, the top ten games by number of screenshots and the top ten free-to-play online games.”
The latest available Top 20 Games according to Xfire (with average daily hours of play included) are:
1. World of Warcraft 390,703
2. Counter-Strike Source 157,187
3. Call of Duty 2 Multiplayer 145,030
4. Battlefield 263,615
5. Guild Wars 47,802
6. Counter-Strike 1.6 37,549
7. Silkroad Online 34,406
8. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory 32,832
9. Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne 32,145
10. Battlefield 2142 28,310
11. Command & Conquer 326,099
12. Call of Duty Multiplayer 19,940
13. Call of Duty United Offensive 17,993
14. WarRock 13,008
15. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-Shadow of Chernobyl 11,578
16. MapleStory 10,860
17. Halo 10,594
18. Diablo II - Lord of Destruction 10,469
19. America's Army: Special Forces 10,405
20. Eve Online 9,565
Okay, so nobody is keeling over with shock that WoW is now more lively and profitable than a smallish north European country on a Sunday in February.
What is more interesting - unless you’re a WoW aficionado in which case nothing is more interesting – is the fact that free-to-play games such as Silkroad Online (No: 7), War Rock (No: 14), MapleStory (No: 16) feature prominently. These are Korean games which appear to have impacted the European and North American publishers' domains.
Is this the start of something bigger?
Xfire was founded in 2003 by Dennis "Thresh" Fong (World Champion of Quake) and Mike Cassidy (former CEO of Direct Hit) as a server and game-agnostic way of matching up players online. According to its own blurb, Xfire is "...a free tool that automatically keeps track of when and where gamers are playing PC games online and lets their friends join them easily.”
For the full stats, click right here.
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Morten 14 Apr 2007 11:34
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It's weird how silkroad and maple story is in this list and lineage2 is not. In many different internet cafe and gaming clubs i see about 1/3 ppl playing wow 1/3 CS and less of 1/3 L2 with a very small amount of people playing other games.never seen ppl playing GW (which i used to play myself and the company "forced" me to quit by deleting my toons for uknown reasons and denying to recover them after a long period of me providing them proof that it was my account.. in the end after i provided them with my serial they asked for a picture with me and the box of the game displaying the serial and smiling from my patio next to the pc that i'm playing. (well they didn't really ask for that but it was something close.)
I've been playing wow for many months now used to play L2 and GW for quite a while but i also play L2 when a new chapter or chronicle comes up.
in other shops i have seen 1/2 playing CS and the rest a large amount lineage2 and "tasting" few other games.
In that sense.. it's weird how lineage2 is not in that list.. don't you think so ?
I've been playing wow for many months now used to play L2 and GW for quite a while but i also play L2 when a new chapter or chronicle comes up.
in other shops i have seen 1/2 playing CS and the rest a large amount lineage2 and "tasting" few other games.
In that sense.. it's weird how lineage2 is not in that list.. don't you think so ?
Skaarj 16 Apr 2007 09:34
2/2
I really dont think so, as from what you have seen in shops and net cafés, really aint something that tells what the majority of every gamer is playing around the world. Those that you have observed, is a _very_ little number from the total population of gamers.
Also, these numbers cant be trusted completly neither, as I really dont belive the majority of gamers in europe are connected to Xfire. Who knows, perhaps Xfire is more popular for those that plays certain games, than with others?
Also, these numbers cant be trusted completly neither, as I really dont belive the majority of gamers in europe are connected to Xfire. Who knows, perhaps Xfire is more popular for those that plays certain games, than with others?