League of Legends reaches 27m daily players
Riot more than doubles audience in less than 18 months, concurrent users up to 7.5m
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Riot Games' League of Legends now brings in around 27 million players every single day.
The new figures were released to the Wall Street Journal yesterday, and they represent a significant improvement over the 12 million daily players Riot counted in October 2012. The game's concurrent players have also risen sharply, from 5 million in March last year to peaks of more than 7.5 million this month.
And if last week's report from SuperData was accurate, Riot's revenue is following a similar trajectory, hitting $624 million in 2013 - the only online game to earn more last year was the Tencent-published shooter CrossFire, which brought in $957 million.