{"id":7771,"date":"2015-11-10T08:55:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T16:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/how-many-players-does-dota-2-has\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T16:42:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T00:42:29","slug":"how-many-players-does-dota-2-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/how-many-players-does-dota-2-has\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Players Does Dota 2 Has"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cyberpower-nfographics-dota2-players-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Players Dota 2 Has\" class=\"wp-image-4118\" title=\"Players Dota 2 Has\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With PC Gamer describing it as an &#8220;an unbelievably deep and complex game that offers the purest sequel to the original DotA&#8221;, DotA 2 is considered as one of the most popular MOBA games alongside with League of Legends (LoL). Actually just last February 2015, Dota 2 is the first game on Steam to hit 1 million concurrent users, according to Steam&#8217;s own game and player statistics page. To be exact, it hit a peak of 1,075,464 concurrent players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then, DotA 2 has been competing closely with Riot\u2019s League of Legends in popularity and number of players. Developed and published by Valve Corporation, Dota 2 is played in matches between two five-player teams, each of which occupies a stronghold in a corner of the playing field. A team wins by destroying the other side&#8217;s &#8220;Ancient&#8221; building, located within the opposing stronghold. Each player controls one of 110 playable &#8220;Hero&#8221; characters that feature unique powers and styles of play. During a match, the player collects gold, items, and experience points for their Hero, while combating Heroes of the opposite team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MOBAs have become popular in e-sports because in many ways they resemble traditional sports arenas, Dota 2 is part of an exploding market of these MOBA games. And perhaps the reason why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowerpc.com\/page\/SYBER\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4k PC gaming console<\/a> are so popular nowadays, DotA 2 provides the new players with enhanced graphics, challenging gameplay and updated build items. The infographics below will only prove how many players are getting DotA 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With PC Gamer describing it as an &#8220;an unbelievably deep and complex game that offers the purest sequel to the original DotA&#8221;, DotA 2 is considered as one of the most popular MOBA games alongside with League of Legends (LoL). Actually just last February 2015, Dota 2 is the first game on Steam to hit&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/how-many-players-does-dota-2-has\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Many Players Does Dota 2 Has<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":7770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2747,2258,2724],"tags":[2957,2845,860,2958],"class_list":["post-7771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest","category-industry-interest","category-news","tag-4k-gaming-console","tag-cyber-power-pc","tag-dota-2","tag-dota-2-playes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15518,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771\/revisions\/15518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}