Riot announces the festivities to celebrate League of Legends’ 10th anniversary!

As League of Legends hits its 10th anniversary, Riot gives us some special information on what they have planned to celebrate!

It’s coming, folks! This October, Riot will be celebrating League of Legends’ ten year anniversary!

In their announcement today, Riot has teased us with tons of new content, a look into the Season 10 preseason changes, new TFT content, and a brand new League of Legends logo! The festivities, which will take place on October 15, 2019, are sure to be a ton of fun and you can learn more about what to find during the festivities. The full announcement reads as follows:

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"This year, we’re celebrating the ten year anniversary of League of Legends! Join us on October 15th, 2019 as we kick things off with livestreams and events, including a 10th Anniversary Edition of Riot Pls that starts at 6:00pm PST.In the 10th Anniversary Edition Riot Pls, we’ll take a look back at our favorite League moments and share a glimpse of the future, including a first look at this year’s preseason changes and TFT’s next big content update.Every day we see about 8 million peak concurrent players in League.* That makes League the biggest PC game in the world—it’s even bigger than the top ten games on Steam combined. Together, we’ve built a thriving community around the world, and we want to show our appreciation for all of you. If you’re not able to catch the celebration on October 15th, don’t worry. We’ll rebroadcast the livestream throughout the following day.We think this is the perfect time to set the stage for the next ten years by modernizing the official League of Legends logo. Check out the new look above!Remember to save the date and join us on October 15th, 2019 with your party hats and golden spatulas ready. See you soon!*Calculated as League’s average daily PCU (peak concurrent users) for all Riot, Tencent, and Garena regions during the month of August"

We’ll definitely be circling October 15 on our calendars to get a sneak peek at what big changes are coming to League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics in Season 10. I also wonder what special guests might be joining the October 15 live stream?

Of course, the biggest piece of news that everyone will be talking about is Riot’s announcement regarding their player base. The last time that Riot publicly confirmed their peak active player count was in a 2017 statement in Forbes, where they said they had over 100 million active monthly players.

Now, obviously, this does not give us an apples-to-apples comparison since Riot is talking about peak concurrent players and not just daily players overall, let alone monthly players. However, we do have numbers on peak concurrent player numbers from 2014, also in Forbes. At that time, Riot boasted a peak concurrent player base of 7.5 million every day, so the game has definitely grown.

Some cynics may argue that half a million peak concurrent user growth in five years isn’t that impressive, but for a game that has a player base the size of League of Legends, that’s nothing to sniff at. In any case, the fact that League has 8 million players playing the game daily is incredibly impressive. Especially since “League of Legends killer” Fortnite hit its all-time concurrent player peak at 10.7 million, the fact that League hits just two million shy of that concurrent player count daily is quite impressive.

League has a bigger player base than the top ten games on Steam combined (weird flex, but okay), which includes DOTA 2, Rocket League, and CS:GO, meaning it seems poised to stick around for a long time. I guess that’s another hit to the argument that League of Legends is a dying game.