Dota 2 plays 18 games every second
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Published at: 2023-02-11 12:32:32
Former Valve employee Zoid Kirsch, who worked on the development of Dota 2, commented on breaking the bar of 7 billion games. He predicted it would take much longer for the game to reach that mark.
Zoid Kirsch:
When I helped engineer the matchmaking for Dota 2 at Valve (aka Game Coordinator) I chose a 32 bit value (up to 4 billion) for the match-id. I estimated at one game per second, that's 126 years.
I was wrong, Dota 2 quickly moved to more than 15 games per second. Oops.
As a reminder, Dota 2 played its 7-millionth game on February 3. It was a match in Turbo format on the Russian server.