More than 600 million people have played games in League of Legends’ Runeterra universe over the past decade.
That’s right, between Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, League of Legends: Wild Rift and of course, League of Legends, more than half a billion people have battled it out across Riot Games’ shared universe since 2009. For comparison’s sake, that’s almost twice the population of the U.S. and about 15 times the population of Canada. It seems like these games are popular or something!
Riot Games announced the enormous player numbers on Wednesday, accompanied by a neat poster to go along with it, which you can check out below.
Across @LeagueOfLegends, @TFT, @PlayRuneterra, and @wildrift, more than 600 million players have joined us in the League universe over the past decade! pic.twitter.com/N9vao5yQse
— Riot Games #RiotXArcane 💥 (@riotgames) November 3, 2021
There are no signs of this franchise slowing down either. In October, more than 180 million people played Runeterra games. Meanwhile, the RiotX Arcane event is uniting Riot’s titles just in time for a new Netflix show based on League of Legends. Not to mention the 2021 League of Legends World Championships are going on right now and are broadcasting in European theaters. Maybe, just maybe — my suspicions that people like these games might be correct. Just a hunch.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
