Imagine playing a mobile game for 13 hours straight...
World Poker Tour 2 has its addicts
People play mobile games in short, bite-sized sessions on the bus, right? Wrong. There's plenty of evidence showing people also play at home, for longer. Although 13 hours is frankly pushing it a bit.
Yet that's how long one gamer played World Poker Tour Texas Hold 'Em 2 online for, according to publisher Hands-On Mobile. The company has also released some other stats showing the popularity of the game's online multiplayer mode since it launched last October.
More than 140,000 unique users have played the game online, racking up more than 12 million hands. Meanwhile, more than 200 virtual billionaires have been created by the game, and over 7,000 millionaires.
Players have been boasting about their wealth, too, with more than seven million chat messages sent through the game's servers. (Note, these figures came from a US press release, so it's unclear if they include us Europeans.)
Hands-On says the game's been its most successful mobile title ever. Hopefully all this player activity has been profitable for the publisher, though. At the recent Mobile Games Forum, its former European boss Eric Hobson talked about the "hellish cost" of launching these kinds of connected mobile games.
