{"id":100333,"date":"2019-09-17T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/350812"},"modified":"2019-09-17T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T16:06:00","slug":"one-decade-in-league-of-legends-still-averages-8m-peak-concurrent-players-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/17\/one-decade-in-league-of-legends-still-averages-8m-peak-concurrent-players-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"One decade in, League of Legends still averages 8M peak concurrent players daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief:&nbsp;<\/strong>Riot Games says that its free-to-play MOBA <em>League of Legends<\/em> still averages around 8 million peak concurrent players on a daily basis, which is no small feat considering the game has been up and running for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>A small mention of the game\u2019s current peak player counts&nbsp;was shared as <a href=\"https:\/\/na.leagueoflegends.com\/en\/news\/game-updates\/special-event\/join-us-oct-15th-celebrate-10-years-league\">part of an announcement<\/a> detailing <em>League of Legends<\/em>\u2019 10-year anniversary festivities, and a look at the game\u2019s modernized logo revamp.<\/p>\n<p>Riot does note that the figure is based on <em>League of Legends\u2019 <\/em>average daily peak concurrent players across all of the game\u2019s regions managed by Riot, Tencent (for China), and Garena (for Southeast Asia) during August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief:&nbsp;Riot Games says that its free-to-play MOBA League of Legends still averages around 8 million peak concurrent players on a daily basis, which is no small feat considering the game has been up and running for 10 years. A small mention of the game\u2019s current peak player counts&nbsp;was shared as part of an announcement detailing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}