Runet Award. Who is stronger: a tank or a rogue?

The popular vote is coming to an end, determining the winner of the Runet Prize in the nomination "People's Ten." For the 1st place there is a tense struggle between 2 massively multiplayer online games - “ Legend: Legacy of the Dragons ” promoted by the largest communication portal of the Russian Internet Mail.ru and the new game “ World of Tanks ”.

It is this intense struggle that raises a lot of questions. Applicants for 1st place are simply not comparable in terms of use of sports terminology and weight categories. Imagine a duel of 2 masters of sports - in sambo and rhythmic gymnastics. The victory of a wrestler in no normal person will cause doubt. In our case, everything is turned upside down. The organizers of the award either pretend that they do not notice the explicit vote wrapping up, or are directly involved in this. I’ll make a reservation right away - I am not a user of either Legends or World of Tanks . My likes are on the side of another game - HeroesWM . But what is happening now, this veiled vote wrapping by the weakest team, can not cause anything but indignation.

Let's see who is who.

“ World of Tanks ” is a young game, launched in August 2010. However, in spite of such a “young” age, it has gained enormous popularity in the world and demonstrates the unprecedented dynamics of user growth. “ World of Tanks ” fell into the Guinness Book of Records, several times setting a world record for the simultaneous stay of players on the same server: January - 91 thousand, March - 120 thousand, September - 212 thousand. There is information that the latest achievement is more than 240 thousand. In July 2010, beta testing of the western version of the game. Already in November 2010, the number of users reached 200 thousand people, and by May 2011 the number of users registered on the North American server exceeded one million. A rather eloquent list of awards received by World of Tanks"For a short time:

• The best client online game KRI-2010
• Award for the best gaming concept ("Best New Concept") from the portal Massively.com at E3 2010
• Crown Award from the Best Computer Games Magazine
• "Editors' Choice" from the publication "Home PC"
• "Editors' Choice" from the Gameguru Game Portal
• The best free MMORPG game ("Best Free MMORPG") according to the MMO community of the MMORPG CENTER portal
• The most anticipated free MMORPG game (“Most Anticipated Free MMORPG”), according to the MMORPG CENTER MMO community
• The most anticipated MMO game of 2010 ("Most Anticipated MMO in 2010") based on the results of user voting on the MMO portal MMOSITE
• The best strategic MMO game of 2010 (“Favorite Strategy MMO in 2010”) based on the results of user voting on the MMO portal MMOSITE
• The best MMO game of 2010 according to readers and the editors of Stopgame.ru
• Record for the simultaneous stay of players on one game MMO server according to the Guinness Book of Records
• The best MMO game of 2010, according to readers and the editorial board of the newspaper "Virtual Joys"
• Gold Award from Gamers Daily News
• The best game of KRI-2011
• KRI 2011 Audience Award "Best" Game that Needed the Award "Award" according to Gamepro magazine according to the results of E3 2011
• "Rising Star Award for E3 2011" according to mmorpg.com

“ Legend: Legacy of the Dragons ”, created in 2006, unfortunately, cannot boast of anything like this. The fact that undertaken in 2008-2009 is rather symptomatic. attempts to promote the game to the foreign market actually ended in failure. Created during this period, the English, German, Spanish, Polish, Turkish, Chinese and French versions of the game according to the authoritative Alexa - The WEB Information Company today have virtually no audience. The only advantage of this game - the presence of a rich and very influential in RuNet owner - of Mail.ru .

Mail.ru in its ranking positions “ Legend: Legacy of the Dragons ” as the absolute leader. The six leaders have only those who are in 3rd place in the vote, “ Heroes of War and Money ”, “ World of Tanks ” not at all . Let's see if Mail.ru information is correct? The numbers are very doubtful.

Pay attention to the “visits” column in screenshots 1 and 2. Some kind of game, even if it would be super popular, cannot be only 3 times less in this indicator than, in fact, Mail.ru itself. One can believe that one of the closest competitors to Legends , Heroes of War and Money with 2.8 million registered users, loses 36 times in the number of visits, but the Legend is 7 times higher than the search engineRambler is from the realm of fantasy.

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Let's turn to other sources. In the Rambler TOP 100, the already mentioned “ Heroes of War and Money ” are in 6th place out of 5569 resources, but the “ Legend ” at 85:00 on 11/20/2011 was in 859 place. The discrepancy is simply monstrous. We write it to the Russian specifics of doing business, distortion of information, unhealthy competition, etc. Let us turn to an authoritative analyst who is completely indifferent to Mail.ru, Rambler and Legends along with Tanks. Let's look at the situation in the Alexa traffic rank “ Legend: Legacy of the Dragons ”, “ World of Tanks ” and “ Heroes of War and Money ”:

	7 days	1 month	3 months	Rating in Russia
dwar.mail.ru	41 195	51 220	52,631	2 800
worldoftanks.ru	4,235	3,761	3 732	190
heroeswm.ru	9,871	9,434	10 055	554

It can be seen that according to this indicator, “ Legend ” loses very much even to “ Heroes of War and Money ” and hopelessly “ World of Tanks ”. It is interesting to compare the position of these 3 teams in the overall ranking of the Russian network sector, which gives Alexa: Yandex - 1, Mail.ru - 2, " World of Tanks " - 190, " Heroes of War and Money " - 544 and " Legend " - 2800.

Now let's see the Reach indicator . It is expressed as a percentage of the total (global) number of Internet users. For Google, this is 50% (i.e., every 2nd Internet user in the world looks in Google), for Yandex about 3%, and what about us ...

	7 days	1 month	3 months
dwar.mail.ru	0.0033	0.0025	0,00243
worldoftanks.ru	0,03	0,0323	0,0317
heroeswm.ru	0.01	0.0102	0.0096

It can be seen that the “ Legend ” has 3 times less users than the “Heroes of War and Money” and 10 times less than the “ World of Tanks ”. All this leads to quite definite conclusions. And if you take into account the instructions for cheating the votes laid out in YouTube by Legends users ... And now a legitimate question arises - does the prize organizing committee just turn a blind eye to the obvious scam or participate directly in it?

Co-authored with TVlad . Nothing else.

• PS 2011 popular vote