Free-to-play juggernaut League of Legends still growing rapidly — 27M players daily

League of Legends, the video game responsible for selling out Los Angeles’ Staples Center in under an hour, isn’t showing any signs of slowing down.

New metrics reveal that the PC multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) heavyweight has reached 27 million daily players — and brought in more than $600 million from microtransactions last year. The number of daily players has more than doubled since October 2012, when developer Riot Games declared it the most-played video game in the world.