Developers and publishers love to bandy around terms to show off how popular their games are. Perhaps it’s “registered users” or “current profiles” or any other number of PR buzz-words. However, we all know that those numbers are useless if no one is playing the game. Dota 2 has lots of players, so many that they’ve broken Steam records.
Over the weekend, Dota 2 players were enjoying their real Valentines, the New Bloom festival. While Steam itself hit a record on New Years day this year with 8.5 million concurrent users, Dota reached a new milestone for a single game – it broke the one million mark for concurrent users this weekend. With 1 075 464 concurrents, it’s far and away the most popular game on Steam with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive coming in second with less than half a million.
While it’s mind boggling to imagine over one million individuals all playing Dota at the same time, those numbers have nothing on the other massively multiplayer titles. League of Legends is about five to seven times larger, although those numbers were last updated about two years ago so who knows if they have grown or shrunk. World of Warcraft separates out uniques by server area or region, so it’s impossible to get a solid set of numbers, although they crossed the one million concurrents in China alone.
Still, it’s impressive to see Dota 2 doing so well and grabbing so many concurrents. Just imagine what will happen when all those people get involved in The International this year. That prize pool will be insane.
Last Updated: February 16, 2015
Admiral Chief
February 16, 2015 at 10:35
Speaking of numbers…
Hammersteyn
February 16, 2015 at 10:40
1886
1+(8-8)+6 = 7
He wants the number back
Admiral Chief
February 16, 2015 at 10:44
Oh snap!
HairyEwok
February 16, 2015 at 10:47
Basic mathematics…. You’re doing it right!
http://gifs.joelglovier.com/chuck-norris/chuck-norris.gif
Hammersteyn
February 16, 2015 at 10:49
Easiest one yet.
Sgt. M
February 16, 2015 at 10:47
This^
Admiral Chief
February 16, 2015 at 10:35
#ForeverDota2ForeverAlone?
DrKiller
February 17, 2015 at 08:57
Jokes on you! We got free items 😛
Admiral Chief
February 17, 2015 at 12:12
XD
Hammersteyn
February 16, 2015 at 10:40
1 075 464 O_o Not the zombie outbreak I was hoping for.
hairyknees
February 16, 2015 at 10:40
:D/
Admiral Chief
February 16, 2015 at 10:45
I take it you were one of the culprits?
Blood Emperor Trevor
February 16, 2015 at 10:48
…
Hammersteyn
February 16, 2015 at 10:50
Almost ready to be steamed
hairyknees
February 16, 2015 at 11:02
I actually was 😛
HairyEwok
February 16, 2015 at 10:42
So this is why CS:GO was having such fantastic packet loss. They went and gave Dota all the steam for its servers.
Matthew Holliday
February 16, 2015 at 10:44
yeah we had them all and it still wasnt enough.
new bloom event went live and I couldnt get a game, pretty much every server worldwide was full.
new bloom was only live for about 10 minutes on the opening night and i couldnt get a server in that time =/
Blood Emperor Trevor
February 16, 2015 at 10:50
#foreverSP
Matthew Holliday
February 16, 2015 at 10:45
15 000 daily points to burn for the event and still havent had a game
my valentine didnt return my affections :<
Matthew Holliday
February 16, 2015 at 11:00
but more importantly
DrKiller
February 17, 2015 at 08:58
Just admit it, you just wanted the puppy!
Tosh "Did he just say that?"
February 16, 2015 at 10:52
Now if they could upgrade their servers to handle that many that’d be great.
Admiral Chief
February 16, 2015 at 10:57
They probably have 1886 servers
Tosh "Did he just say that?"
February 16, 2015 at 11:13
They need 7 more I think.
Loftus
February 16, 2015 at 10:52
{David Attenborough voice over: } and now we’ll hear the mating call of the majestic DOTA Player: click, click…click, click, click…click, click click, click OMG die noob !!! i know your mother!!!
Matthew Holliday
February 16, 2015 at 10:56
you forgot:
“HNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG!$”
“FFS MAN”
“STOP STEALING MY FARM”
“WHY DIDNT YOU CALL MIA?”
and
“get rekt, scrub.”
Loftus
February 16, 2015 at 11:24
We are going to be scolded for mocking them dota players, well only until their mums calls to clean room / dinners ready etc.
Matthew Holliday
February 16, 2015 at 11:29
I am a dota player, so Im allowed to
Only a ginger, can call another ginger “ginger”
Scruff304
February 16, 2015 at 11:24
One also must not forget the good old 5 min “gg wp, plz finish quick”
Alegamer88s
February 16, 2015 at 12:49
good!
Guest
February 16, 2015 at 12:52
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DrKiller
February 17, 2015 at 08:56
And then the servers died……..