xfire breaks 10 million users, 16,000 years online
Gamedaily has the report that Xfire, the online service for gamers (that we have coordinated a few events with in the past), has broken a whopping ten million users. That, you’ll probably realize, is just as many as WoW, and in fact, while Xfire apparently has support for over 1,200 games, WoW always seems to rank pretty high on the list.
In fact, our friends at Xfire have another number that they’ve shared with us: in the month of April alone, Xfire users spent 16,000 years online — that is, if you add up all the time spent online by all the users of the client just in April, you get a time period longer than pretty much the whole history of civilization on Earth. That’s huge.
Which makes us wonder just how long players actually spend in WoW — surely not all WoW players are using Xfire, so the number has to be much bigger than that. At any rate, Xfire is apparently banging, and odds are that WoW is playing a big part.
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