League of Legends surpasses Fortnite to become the most influential game of 2018

Perhaps in the past year the strong rise of the survival shooter series has made the market extremely vibrant. So in fact, is the influence of these games really that strong? The Golden Joystick Awards 2018 really honored too many names of the battle royale genre like Fortnite, PUBG Mobile, etc. However, after all the influence and trust of the gaming community is still for the classic MOBA game. League of Legends. League of Legends is not only strong and popular in Vietnam with the name League of Legends but also recognized by the world with regular monthly quality updates.

According to the latest statistics of The Esports Observer – an esports investment organization that has relied on Newzoo’s data – Game statistics and marketing site to give evaluation scores on the attractiveness of popular games on PC. , up to the third quarter of 2018, and the dominance still belongs to League of Legends for the past 1 year.

Accordingly, you can see League of Legends at the top of the list and is the number 1 game on PC today with a score of 59.24, followed by Fortnite with a score of 57.71. Next are the familiar names CS: GO, Dota 2 and PUBG. The above figures are given according to 6 basic criteria for people to see that League is currently the number 1 PC game:

1. Number of monthly players: 30%
2. Bonus rate in the e-sports tournament system: 25%
3. Percentage of hours spent watching esports tournaments online (on Twitch): 20%
4. Total hours watched (on Twitch): 15%
5. Number of tournaments: 5%
6. Concurrent views and visits (on Twitch): 5%

Although the above numbers are only statistics until the end of the third quarter of 2018, it is certain that League of Legends can completely keep the throne until the end of the year, because the fourth quarter is the time of CKTG 2018 and All-Star. This is a period of time that has consistently broken viewership records around the world over the years. Therefore, the superiority of League of Legends can be far from Fortnite’s 2nd place. Surely the No. 1 position in the world of League of Legends is difficult to be defeated no matter how powerful the blockbuster is.