Xfire recently announced that it’s hit the 8 million user mark worldwide, with 40% of those users in North America and 60% in Europe.
The real eyebrow-raising statistic, though, is the fact that Xfire users who play World of Warcraft log 440,000 hours per gameplay every day. That’s 18,333 days /played, or enough time to level 1,833 characters to level 70 at a casual pace (which is technically impossible, but I’m throwing that out there to put things in perspective).
Call of Duty 2 logs a surprising 173,355 hours a day, while Counter-Strike: Source gets 158,714 hours. Guild Wars, the runner-up MMO, distracts people for 59,199 hours a day.
Games without multiplayer components didn’t get very high hours, underscoring Xfire users’ tendency to already be hardcore online gamers.
As an aside, Xfire is also notable for being co-founded by Dennis “Thresh” Fong, one of the original pro gamers. Last year, the company sold for $102 million to Viacom.
