Bungie released some year-end numbers for Destiny last week, and it seems Activision's significant investment in the IP has been worth it.
Bungie states that nearly 13 million people have played Destiny across all platforms, for a combined total of 22.9 million guardians. The length of time all players have spend on the game is closing in on 875 million hours, which works out as 99,523 years.
The developer goes on to provide some other factoids:
- In the span of time you have spent playing Destiny, the Curiosity Rover could have made the voyage to Mars more than one hundred thousand times
- If the Guardians populating Destiny occupied a single city, it would be as large as New York City and Los Angeles, combined
- Atheon has been shattered 2.4 Million times
- At least a dozen of those kills were without cheese
- Crota has been Ended 769 times, and rapidly counting
- But only once by a Fireteam of one (step it up, everyone else)
"Staggering statistics aside," the blog continues, "Destiny is more than a game of numbers. it's a world made of people… It's the human stories that lodge in our void-stained memories."
Some "stocking stuffers" have also been teased for players, and Bungie says they'll be added to player's inventories "sometime after the Holidays have come and gone."
Finally, Bungie has released its Christmas card, featuring the Cryptarch holding what seems at first glance to be a purple legendary engram. Look a bit more closely, and you'll spot a sliver of green for an uncommon item shining through. The Cryptarch's wry smile and the card's message "May you get everything you wish for this Holiday Season" now have an entirely different meaning.
