League of Legends hits the roof with 8 million online gamers at the same time

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On the occasion of the aniversary ten years ‘s activities League of Legends Upcoming, Riot Games has announced a huge player count milestone. The MOBA game has reached 8 million concurrent players online in a single day, making LoL one of the most prominent names in the world – and also the most popular PC game today.

“Every day, we see about 8 million players logged into League at a time,” Riot said. The above figure includes players across all Riot services, Tencent and Garena.
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Riot proudly states “it’s a game with more players than the top 10 Steam games combined.” That statement may sound like an exaggeration, but it is in fact a modest advertising gimmick. The highest number of online players for the day of the top 10 games on Steam was only about 2.2 million. According to SteamDB, Steam’s total daily users are around 15 million, of which only about 4 million players are actually logged into the game.

Fortnite’s player base is still far ahead of League of Legends, with 10.8 million concurrent players online, but Epic Games’ battle royale title is available on multiple platforms from PC, console to mobile. Up to now, Minecraft is the game with the largest number of players in the world according to many data sources, but the number of people online at the same time is not announced.
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The PC-exclusive game with the closest track record to LoL is CrossFire, an FPS game aimed at the Chinese market, reported to have 8 million concurrent online players.
The image above must have looked strange to many people, because Riot took the opportunity to celebrate the redesign logo new “trendy”. Surely we will still see the development of League of Legends for a long time to come.​