I’ll be honest here: I don’t know DOTA. My only experience with the game is a 15 minute session back at a LAN event where my avatar was mercilessly stab-raped for loot by around 20 players with double digit levels. But what I do know, are numbers (THE NUMBERS MASON!), and DOTA 2 just broke a whole bunch of them.
Last Saturday, DOTA 2 hit an all time high with 329 977 gamers playing at the same time according to PC Gamer. Want to put that number into perspective? Well then imagine 10% of Pretoria playing DOTA 2 non-stop, and you’d have a good idea to the scope of this achievement.
So why the high numbers then? Could it have something to do with users logging in to catch the west qualifiers in the international tournament? Probably. I don’t know. I don’t play this game. Go bug Zoe. But it’s numbers like this that are also helping Riot Games Valve claim that DOTA 2 is one of the more popular titles on the market right now, above its nearest competitor League of Legends.
Even though LoL did just boast that it has over 500 000 players in one region alone. Damn, those be some insane numbers.
Last Updated: May 21, 2013
Siko
May 21, 2013 at 13:10
Do you maybe mean “Valve” here – “helping Riot Games claim”
Major Commodore 64 Darryn B
May 21, 2013 at 15:00
See, I told you that I knew nothing about DOTA 2. Thanks for the reminder.
James Philip Lawrence
May 21, 2013 at 13:10
:O go team!
Rince an repeat
May 21, 2013 at 13:10
I still don’t get the appeal…
Admiral Chief Commander
May 21, 2013 at 13:12
I used to, but then I took a complete and utter hatred for the community to the knee.
Rude bastards
Rince an repeat
May 21, 2013 at 13:13
Hahahaha! Nice 🙂
Eric Viljoen
May 21, 2013 at 13:36
They have ignore and mute buttons now
Admiral Chief Commander
May 21, 2013 at 13:44
Meh, that ship has sailed for me
mancera
May 21, 2013 at 13:37
Never played DOTA or LoL… so neither do I 😛
DoNotCareGripPull
May 21, 2013 at 14:10
Best ever!!
DoNotCareGripPull
May 21, 2013 at 14:10
Best ever!!
Admiral Chief Commander
May 21, 2013 at 13:15
Also, that header is super scary. I’d proper poef myself if so many bees frolicked on my everything
Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew
May 21, 2013 at 13:21
That’s some amazing numbers. Very impressive!
Slade Boender
May 21, 2013 at 13:30
officially playing or just online? I’d imagine those numbers would spike during the internationals though. Those east teams are flipping insanely good.
Wikus Schalkwyk
May 21, 2013 at 13:33
yay, and I was one of them 🙂
caponeil
May 21, 2013 at 13:44
DOTA for the win – not sure what win but the win. Should also break single tourney prize money before August for The International 3.
Noodlez49
May 21, 2013 at 13:53
Ok, so I was one of them, can they maybe print a list of all 329 977 players so I can confirm 😛
GripPull2hour
May 21, 2013 at 14:08
I was also one booya
Kevin Mason
May 21, 2013 at 14:02
I wish Dota 2 well, maybe one day they will take it out of beta 😛
For now tho, It doesn’t touch LoL in terms of numbers, nor will it, unless they make it more noob friendly. (and make it less zoomed in, dammit)
TeroPestanaDeSousa
May 21, 2013 at 14:03
DotA is best! LoL is a gram gargler!!!
Theo Steenekamp
May 21, 2013 at 14:23
Well we all know that Call of Duty is still the best… so meh
That Tall Twit
May 21, 2013 at 15:36
See what you did there.
Karl Thomson
May 21, 2013 at 14:27
LoL has concurrent players that are in the millions as far as I know. It was in a press release from March I think.
Matthew Figueira
May 22, 2013 at 15:18
DOTA! When will you join us Darryn? 😀