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Dota 2 beats League of Legends as most played PC game - Critical Hit

 

I wonder how they calculated that.

 

Right now on twitch.tv - League of Legends 78,465 Viewers Dota 2 25,548 Viewers

 

Watching and playing the games are two different things.

 

Very true. But it still shows how active the communities are. Plus since League of Legends has built in twitch, those people could be just sitting in main menu and count as viewers.

 

This was also situated purely on spectators in the west

 

They didn't mention it but this article essentially copy pasted a different one which was released earlier today as top play pc game in the west. It's no surprise because wc3 dota was most popular game in china for years..

 

i think the prize pools and users say it all:

 

biggest dota tournament: $1 Million biggest lol tournament: $5 Million, average users Dota at a given time: Around 100000 average users Lol at a given time: I think I heard at least a million

 

I hope Dota becomes more popular someday but for now I have to disagree with article

 

It's actually 1.6mil and riot's was like roughly the same for season 2(1.8milish) and not sure what season 3 is... Average users has spiked to about 250k but it varies from day to day. Would be nice if it wasn't in beta still. We have plenty of tournaments in dota going on now which is good to see.

 

Not bad for a game that is not even out yet and not available without an invite.