The company Ico Media has published a statistic about which games were most written about by gaming sites in 2014: The usual suspects prevail.
It is a statistic that clearly reflects the impression that most of us have: The devil shits on the biggest pile. ICO Media compiled a list of games that had the most articles written about them in 2014 on the business site Gamastura, focusing on gaming sites in their analysis.
In MOBAs, League of Legends is extremely strong
In the MOBAs, League of Legends clearly prevailed. Just like in the Ratpr trends, this is not a race, but a massacre. Almost twice as many articles were published about LoL compared to Dota 2, and four times as many articles were written about League of Legends compared to Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm. The question is whether HotS will gain traction when it is released or if it will rather decline once the initial thirst for information is quenched.
MMORPGs: Younger games are being noticed more
A strange phenomenon can be observed with MMORPGs: There is hardly any writing about “older games” anymore. Only the big whale named World of Warcraft is an exception, swimming triumphantly through the seas and leading the statistics clearly. However, coming in behind are TESO, Final Fantasy XIV, and WildStar, three relatively young games.
Even though TESO and WildStar did not exactly succeed in 2014, the complex MMORPGs, as the statistics show, require an enormous amount of articles from the gaming press, especially at release. Staying relevant in the media afterward is not as easy, as evidenced by Guild Wars dropping to 5th place. Despite probably having a significantly larger player base, it received fewer articles than WildStar in 2014. By the way, Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 count together for the statistics, with a huge portion of the articles published being about Guild Wars 2.
In all games, Destiny is strong despite late release
Among the “big guys,” the general games, shooters are clearly in the lead. Here, Titanfall is in first place, which is surely also due to the fact that it was released much earlier than Destiny . It holds a strong third place, still behind the exceptional game “Minecraft.” Minecraft stands almost alone in the top among shooters as an exotic. No wonder it was worth Microsoft a fortune. Minecraft is a cultural phenomenon. The only other exotic holding its own among the shooter giants is the Nintendo exclusive title Smash Bros.
