There are many sources (mostly inaccurate), which give out information about the number of players in each game. As it is quite hard to provide accurate information on that matter, there are a few close assumptions.

While reading through the ton of articles on players share, we can almost certainly assume that it goes a little bit like this (depending on xfire and official forums):

  1. Defense of the Ancients
  2. League of Legends
  3. Heroes of Newerth

There is also another way to rate how popular a game is, by the number of facebook fans:

  1. League of Legends (around 990 000 fans) Source
  2. Heroes of Newerth (around 550 000 fans) Source
  3. Defense of the Ancients (around 103 000 fans) Source

Conclusion:

DotA is many years older than its competition. It has got many more downloads. Many who enjoyed DotA will take a look at DotA 2 on its release. We also believe that when DotA 2 is released HoN and LoL will lose some of its players. Also keep in mind that DotA was virtually free.

 

Only time will tell. If you have any more information on this matter please leave a comment.

 

 

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