Report: 'Avid Cataclysm Users Spend 30+ Hours Per Week With Game'

21 Dec 2010 at 12:03:37 by Dave Gibbon

A game tracking application has revealed some interesting stats about World of Warcraft: Cataclysm players.

According to Raptr ‘the top 11% of hardcore fans are driving the majority of overall playtime. In fact, the top player for World of Warcraft on Raptr clocked in 149 hours in one week. That’s a little over 6 days straight.’

Raptr also claims ‘there may be avid gamers out there who are regularly clocking in +30 hours a week (which is about 1/3 of the overall audience), there are also a significant number of gamers that play less than 5 hours a week.’

Other Raptr stats include:

• World of Warcraft playtime has grown 5 times since the summer of 2010, as previous subscribers flocked back to the game to drive up overall playtime to record highs.
• World of Warcraft time played per day has grown 1.5 times since the summer of 2010.
• World of Warcraft playtime per week has grown to 20 hours – almost double of what it was in the summer of 2010.
• World of Warcraft stole the most playtime hours from StarCraft 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and League of Legends.

The full Raptr report can be read here.

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