Browse any website or message board, and you’ll find plenty of people whining about Destiny – but a month removed from its release, the title is still performing incredibly well. In a post on Bungie.net, the developer has revealed that an average of 3.2 million people play the futuristic first-person shooter for approximately three hours per day. Apparently, that includes week days, which blows our mind a little bit.
Of course, this also gives us an indication of the title’s sales figures, which must be in the region of at least five million units by now. Not bad for a brand new property, huh? In fact, over the past three weeks, the title has attracted more online players than Halo 3 and Halo: Reach combined. However, neither of the previous two titles required an Internet connection to run, so that's not necessarily a fair comparison as far as we’re concerned.
“We thank you for playing," community boss David ‘Deej’ Dague said. "And, we thank you for the passion and enthusiasm that has made the Destiny community so strong already. It's been amazing to watch your Guardians become legends. Your reactions and your opinions have helped us to make Destiny better over this past month. Stay tuned for the next evolution of our shared adventure." It better involve something better than loot caves, huh?
[source bungie.net, via eurogamer.net]
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is that over all 4 systems?
@FullbringIchigo Yes.
Be interesting to see the breakdown between systems. I've been playing an hour or two in the evening when the missus and kids are in bed but you're right, 3 hours average per day is a lot during the week
3- 6 on weekdays here, up to 12 on weekends. I didn't play a ton on launch week and this past week I took a mini break, still managed 110 hours so far.
Across 4 systems with like a user base of 6.41 million is less than 50% (like 49.9%) which isn't great for an online game that just released a bit back.
9 days 11 hours and 12 minutes, still loving the game, i'm trying to stay away from the negativeity on the forums because as I expected its coming from the minority with the loudest voice as per usual, GJ Bunjie
@Bad-MuthaAdebis Six hours a day?! Bloomin' heck!
@get2sammyb I only sleep for 6 hours which helps. The hilarious thing is is that despite 110 hours, I've never once had a price of legendary armor drop or be decrypted for use with my hunter, I've had plenty of warlock. All pretty hilarious. I've managed to get to level 28 by grinding and buying all my armor. Why do I bother.
@xMEADx you're a beast
Destiny is nowhere near the epic game i was expecting, but i still can't
stop playing it. put in about 50 hours so far and will hit level 27 on tuesday.
i really want to play "shadow of mordor" and "the evil within" this week, but
i can't drag myself away from this stupid game, i've become quite obsessed
with getting all legendary and exotic gear.
I play on average about two to three hours a day. If I'm on late shifts my gf goes to bed about an hour after I get home, so I have the tv to myself and a few hours with nothing to do.
Same goes for my mate who I usually do strikes with. He's a chef so gets in about the time I do.
Bungie... please add match making for the VOG!!! But still loving the game.
Warlock lvl 28
Total Played Time, 3d 5h 0m
Not bad haha
Will hit lvl 29 once I get more of the dam rare Ascendant Shards, need 34 more!!
@Midzark I need 36 shards, meh, to be fair though I'll pick up 14 over the next week or so, plenty of marks to spend and upcoming gear to dismantle, should be level 30 in the next couple of weeks. Yay.
87h 17m here. I can totally relate to those stats.
I'll keep playing games until I play the raid. Then I'll review whatever new content comes out.
@Bad-MuthaAdebis you sound rather confident in picking up 14 shards... When I do the daily heroic on 28 my party always gets shards and I always get energy
But damn, the game's got me hooked and am now prepping for the raid. Level 28 with legendary and exotic gear already but want to level everything first. If anyone wants to play hit my clan up here http://www.bungie.net/en/Clan/Playstation/134091 or add me on PSN capitales7
@Bad-MuthaAdebis Tyvm , it's pretty easy to rack up the hours tbh as Destiny is always on because I don't have it on the main TV the kids and missis watch their stuff on that and i'm in the dining room playing on my 24" gaming moniter . I play for an hour or so (few strikes and a bit of pvp maybe) then go do some stuff round the house then play a bit more then do more stuff round the house etc etc. I just managed to do Vault of Glass on hard difficulty as well really happy about that lol, I didn't win anything I wanted though just the sparrow and tons of shards.
Impressive
Another online game that almost everyone complains about, but then continues to play it. If you don't know why you are playing it still, that should tell you something.
Stop playing it & play something else. People are so goofy.
If I had this game I'd probably end up playing it for quite a bit of time, to tell the truth.
I'd be happy if the game sells well so that way there's a chance for new content down the line and possibly a sequel some odd years later that can improve on what Destiny didn't deliver.
@Godsire- it could've been a mass effect scale MMO, which sounds badass... Instead we got solid, if not some of the best, fps mechanics and challenging missions, but unfortunately without much base or back story. It's very fun to play but it could've been something truly great. Ahh well, i don't care as I'm on it every damn day regardless.
We'll all stop playing the minute Far Cry 4 comes out...
@seeafish I just have a ton of marks stacked up and I'll be dismantling a bunch of armor, only have my booties and gloves left to upgrade
@Bad-MuthaAdebis i just did daily heroic and got energy AGAIN hehe.
I got Destiny amd the Remastered Edition with The Last of Us, I have been playing Destiny every single day of the week, I'm online for several hours a day, due to medical conditions I cannot leave my home, but there is a constant issue that Bungie needs to fix.
I am constantly being kicked out of the game, due to its online issues. I keep getting weird errors like Zebra, Cockatiel etc and some days I can be kicked out while I am right at the beginning of a strike or even just as I have just got to the end of a strike, fight the boss and just about killed it, then I just get kicked out. There are major connectivity issues, server issues and the funny thing is, it has only just started happening the most since they shut down for maintenance recently and applied the new patch.
I have been at times kicked out around 8 times within 15 minutes. Isn't only strikes either, I can be doing patrols or story missions for my extra characters and still have similar issues. Also just login and kicked out instantly which just happened before this post. This never happened to me ever until the recent patch and maintenance.
All in all it's an excellent game, but Bungie really needs to get their act together in this issue.
@alison22000 Sorry to hear that your having trouble I hope Bunjie sort this out, I only ever hear about connectivity problems on the forums so it seems its only happening to the minority as i speak to at least 10 differn't people a day on Destiny and I have a solid group of 5 or 6 friends also that I speak to on a daily basis and none of them mention anything about connectivity issues. I would be incredibley frustrated if it was happening to me so I feel for you m8 and I hope it gets fixed asap (as i'm sure you do )
@Godsire- Not almost everyone complains about the game and the reason they continue to play is because they like the game. Just because a few people complain over and over it seems like the majority but (i've said it before i know) its simply the minority with the loudest voice, 3.2 million people play every night so that obv has to tell you something.
Yeah, there would be a lot of strain on the servers, I play during daytime to the latest 8 pm. But I'm in Australia, so the Timezone would be nighttime or early morning in America and Europe, which I would guess has the most players.
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