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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanessar" data-source="post: 9891917" data-attributes="member: 7056654">I posited this response not to shut down discussion, but mainly because the metrics involved aren't pertinent to the correct answer - most of the answers here aren't answering and cannot answer of "what is played the most". Re-framing the question is going to be the most useful thing here."The most-purchased" or "the most played at cons" are tangible and can be answered. But the question inferred by Mike's answer here (what is being played the most) is the wrong one in the context of the data supplied. Bought systems are definitely a false equivalence to played systems. Convention play is a metric of how popular a system is at conventions - but are you playing new systems at conventions or playing a system you already have?If I was going to blow 5K going to GaryCon (considered it this year, but expenses prevented it), I would play games in systems I haven't bought yet - but maybe I'm the odd man out?I think it would be interesting to metric out something like Shadowdark - because we have a set number of books sold, we have a date and timeline for the system, and we have an adoption rate, and we could even probably find the number of people using it at the table versus sitting on a shelf or being resold on eBay. That would make the data useful, we could draw certain conclusions from that? Just musing out loud at this point...</blockquote>