World of Warcraft tops most played list of 2008
by Alexis Kassan 
Jan 2nd 2009 at 1:00PM
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Runescape, Academic
Nielsen Research has published its January through October numbers about the top 10 PC games and top 10 consoles by amount of time played. Once again World of Warcraft tops the charts. In fact, WoW has more time played than the other nine titles listed - combined.Coming in at position 6 is Runescape, the browser-based game that could. It had just slightly less share than The Sims 2. Numbers for only October are available on the Nielsen website and show a different makeup for numbers 2-10, with WoW still in first. We can only imagine what this data will look like for November 2008 with the added game time of those who bought Wrath of the Lich King.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
wilhelm2451 said on 2:57PM 1-02-2009
I love that Diablo II is on that list!
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Jack said on 4:28PM 1-02-2009
Nielsen Research is a lot of bull and is bass on a few selected people like maybe 2 bil that allow that Nielsen people to kinda spy on them!
How every this numbers are in no way correct for every single person in the USA! Same for there tv ratings and others.
How every you not need to read this crap to known that World of Warcraft was the most played game of 2008! base on the sale numbers alone!
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Lemons said on 4:01PM 1-14-2009
I still find myself believing WoW would top the charts regardless of how they collect the data.
even if each person only played an hour a day that would still be 11 million hours played a day times 365 days in a year
that makes about 4 billion hours of wow played last a year.