The free playable DotA-clone League of Legends has 32 million registered users, of which there are each month, 11.5 million are active. That is more than the number of paying players in World of Warcraft.
According to the American developer Riot Games are free playable, League of Legends has more active players than World of Warcraft. Where the successful mmog from Blizzard in membership numbers have decreased to more than 10 million, is that League of Legends has actually increased to more than 11 million. The number of active players shows this strong growth. The latest figures Riot Games for this announced date of July, when the number of active players even at ‘only’ 4 million was.
According to Riot has League of Legends now 32 million registered users, of which there are more than 11 million monthly active. Daily log now has more than 4 million players, with a peak of 1.3 million players at the same time. However, the difference is that League of Legends is free to play and World of Warcraft have a monthly subscription must be closed.
League of Legends is an action rts that is very similar to the Warcraft III-mod Defense of the Ancients. The basis for the game was made by Steve Feak and Steve Mescon, who both previously were involved in Defense of the Ancients. Developed Feak the popular map DotA Allstars. In League of Legends is played by two teams of three or five players against each other, in which the teams each other’s basic need to conquer. Players enter the battlefield with so-called Hero’s. There are now 85. Season Two is going according to Riot soon start, with a total of 5 million dollars in prize money.
Defense of the Ancients is popular. Blizzard, with Warcraft III, the game made which DotA is based, works itself to the free Blizzard DotA, a mod for their StarCraft II. Developer Valve is working on the game Dota 2, which is currently in beta state.