The numbers from Ratpr for June are out. The program measures which games users spent the most time on among the players who have it installed. In June, the release month of WildStar, the SF-MMO jumps to an excellent sixth place. The Elder Scrolls Online, on the other hand, loses twelve ranks and falls below its own single-player release, Skyrim.
World of Warcraft behind League of Legends and DOTA 2
This month, there is little change at the top. League of Legends and Dota 2 are in 1st and 2nd place – LoL with a significant lead. A quarter of the time was spent by the Raptr users in the two MOBAs. In 3rd place then WoW, slightly weaker than in the previous month: No wonder, Blizzard is currently taking a creative break in the live version and is putting all its creative energy into the upcoming expansion Warlords of Draenor.
WildStar debuts at 6 – Numbers will surely drop soon
Surprisingly strong at 6 then Carbine’s WildStar makes its entry. Passing titles like Minecraft and just behind Diablo 3. It can be assumed that the numbers were driven by the hype around the release, the guest passes, and the general “I game through to max level” feeling of the first days and will soon decline. Nevertheless, a great success for the science fiction MMO.
The Elder Scrolls Online has the blues, falls below Skyrim
On the other side of the scale lies Zenimax’s The Elder Scrolls Online. It lost 12 places compared to the previous month, and is now behind Skyrim. June was difficult for the MMO. New content came, but it was also accompanied by lags.
The numbers are clear: It is undeniable that TESO has continued to lose players in the third month after release or at least gamers are not playing it as intensely anymore. But it is also clear that an MMORPG always has a very strong phase after release that later dwindles as players game less or turn to new games. The question is only: At what level can MMORPGs establish themselves?
Guild Wars 2, World of Tanks, Final Fantasy XIV with slight losses
Other games that we cover on mein-mmo.de also lost some places. While World of Tanks is still excellently placed at 11th. Final Fantasy XIV and also Guild Wars 2 had rather little new content throughout June and only towards the beginning of the new month with the start of the second season of the Living World (Guild Wars 2) or a large content patch (the 2.3 for FF XIV) was added. It will be interesting to see if these efforts will also be noticeable to the players.
Hearthstone can also look forward to a more turbulent July after a solid June, provided the expansion Naxxramas is released in the coming weeks. Otherwise, August will simply be a success for the free-to-play hit.
Completely dropped out of the top 20 are Star Wars: The Old Republic and War Thunder. Although the games are so closely ranked at the bottom that even minor fluctuations can make the difference between whether the name shines on the list or is one searches in vain for it.
It must be said about the Raptr numbers that they do not provide an absolute and undeniable picture of how the gaming behavior of millions of gamers really is. They only indicate how many hours Raptr users have spent in the respective games. With its over 20 million active users, Raptr should, however, be a reasonable approximation.
