Destiny's 187 million Guardians have played for 9.8 billion hours combined

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Destiny is approaching 10 billion hours played thanks to the combined grinding of some 187 million unique players.

Bungie shared some of the game's lifetime stats in its latest blog post. While profession manager Cozmo didn't provide exact numbers, he did confirm that Destiny and Fortune 2 have conjointly seen 187 million Guardians World Health Organization've logged 9.8 billion hours in the FPS MMO.

This doesn't tell us how many people are actively playing Fate 2 – which is sitting comfortably at 100,000 concurrent players along Steam alone at the time of writing – but it does verbalise to the sheer volume of gamers World Health Organization've at least dependable Destiny over the years. How many of them hopped in when cross-wreak went live, or when the New Light free trial became available? That we don't know, simply we do know that Destiny players killed Vault of Glass knob Atheon two million times in the past year alone, with 3.5 million kills happening Taniks in Destiny 2's Deep Lucy Stone Crypt raid for great measure.

"How fast do you think you can hook that number up to an even 10 billion hours (all but 1,100,000 years) played?" Cozmo asked in the blog carry. "Just please remember to take breaks and drink stack of water," he added, completely in vain considering he's speaking to the histrion base that began this dealership aside shooting dudes in a cave for days and hasn't gotten any less dogged since. Look at all the places that aren't caves where we behind snap dudes now. Look at the many varieties of dudes that need shootin'. And you expect U.S.A to take breaks?

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Austin freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and to a greater extent while finishing his journalism degree, and he's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've one of these days to realize that his put as a staff writer is just a cover for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a focus on news and the occasional sport.