The MOBA League of Legends (LoL) is currently extremely popular in Korea. LoL has always had a high status of popularity there, but now it is by far the most played game in PC bangs.
How popular is LoL? Just recently, Riot Games announced that at peak times about 8 million players are logged into LoL worldwide at the same time. These are the figures from August 2019. The creators declared LoL to be the most popular PC game in the world.
This popularity is clearly recognizable in South Korea, as League of Legends accounts for 50% of the games played in PC bangs. That’s what they call the internet cafés there.
The Twitter user @SaintSnorlax pointed out the latest statistics. He posted a screenshot showing how LoL has now broken the 50% play rate barrier in the PC bangs. This data comes from the site Gametrics.com
What are the other games? With over 50% share of the play rate, LoL has maintained an extremely high lead over the other spots in the top 10. The game in second place achieves “only” 9.12%. The names of the games behind are:
- LoL – 50.33 %
- PUBG – 9.12 %
- Overwatch – 6.71 %
- FIFA Online 4 – 6.25 %
- Sudden Attack 3.4 %
- Maple Story – 2.44 %
- StarCraft 2.33 %
- World of Warcraft – 2.17 %
- Lost Ark 1.46 %
- Dungeon Fighter – 1.35 %
A fascinating development in this top 10. Almost 2 years ago, PUBG surged ahead and secured first place with 13.51 %. At that time, Overwatch was in second place with a 12.99 % play rate.
There’s no sign of the Fortnite hype that existed in other regions in this current top list.
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Even though Fortnite wanted to draw attention to itself with the addition of the popular PC bangs in the game:
Why is the play rate increasing now? LoL introduced several innovations for its 10th anniversary. Among them are many new games from Riot Games, but also rewards for players who actively play LoL during this time. This could be one of the incentives for players to immerse themselves even more in LoL right now.
There are blue essences, anniversary symbols, eye skins, rare “little legends” eggs, skin splitters, WM tokens, and more. You can see an overview in the following image:
Additionally, the game mode “Teamfight Tactics” is now a significant part of LoL and is played through the same client. These player numbers are also likely to influence the play rate in the PC bangs.
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