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Destiny Has 3.2 Million Daily Players a Month After Launch

"Pioneering something new is never easy. When we see the raw numbers, it’s easy for us to say that the destination was worth the journey."

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It has been a full month since Bungie and Activision launched Destiny, and while it has received its fair share of criticism during that time, the data proves that people are still playing it. A lot.

In a post to Bungie's official website, Community Manager David "DeeJ" Dague revealed that Destiny averages 3.2 million players every day. As Bungie revealed last month, these players' play sessions are still three hours long on average, even on weekdays. The average Destiny player also logs into the the game 1.8 times a day, and has played Destiny 20.9 times in total.

To put things into perspective, Bungie says over the past three weeks it has had more players online in Destiny that it did during the same span for Halo 3 and Halo: Reach combined. However, keep in mind that Halo 3 and Halo: Reach had single player campaigns that could be played offline. In Destiny, you have to be online, even if you're playing through the story alone.

"Your reactions and your opinions have helped us to make Destiny better over this past month," Dague said. "Pioneering something new is never easy. When we see the raw numbers, it’s easy for us to say that the destination was worth the journey."

For more on Destiny, be sure to check out GameSpot's review.

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Console gamers do love their mediocre FPSes.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> it's a MMO, not a FPS
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It's an online FPS dude. You have a gun, you shoot things in first person perspective. That's the core gameplay element.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Nothing massive about this pos game

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> except the level of boredom and grinding!

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >>The level of suckiness is high in this thread. I bet I can kick all your asses 1v4 with a hand tied to my chair. Just cause you guys suck and have the attention span and patience of a red fish doesnt mean a game is boring to everyone else. I bet you also suck at driving,couldnt learn a f*cking music instrument and cant focus on doing something ''repetitive'' for more than 15 mins. Ca sadresse surtout a toé oliver twist.

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@sladakrobot @xolivierx @Thanatos2k nope : Multiplayer Mierda Online

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Gotta give credit to Activision's Pr and Bungie's pedigree for those numbers. I wasn't all that impressed with Destiny, gonna trade it for SOM, let's see how that pans out.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> lol Crap of Mordor. Enjoy your dumbed down spam/hold-x-to-win Ass Creed copy-cat.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Is SOM really that lame? have u played it?

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@chris120379 @gameroutlawzz Man, I already could tell the game was a copy/paste of Assassins creed, a franchise that makes me want to vomit with its simplified,dull gameplay that is APPARENT they wnated to catter to the masses with. Making the platforming so easy and dull where you cant fail at a single jump since all you do is push the stick forward while holding X to jump across everything, and the combat that resumes at spaming X with a Y/triangle in-between every time a monster tries to attack for a quick counter is what I consider shallow,casual and HUGELY repetitive. 2 of myh friends fell for this crap and both stopped playing after 2 days when I kept telling them how much of a assassins creed clone this crap is. One came over with his PS4 so we could play destiny together and he brought shadows of mordor since it was the day destiny was on maintenance this tuesday. Watching for about an hour and it is exactly what I thought and just described.

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Sigh ..... I would normally call these people sheep or idiots, but unfortunately in this case i was one of them. I nearly bought a Destiny PS4 Bundle. if it wasn't for a little accident i would be one of these poor ba$trads. i fell for the massive hype and Bungie's relatively good track record.

NEVER AGAIN. from now on i'll be encouraging everyone to check extensively for reviews before buying ANYTHING no matter the developer or the hype.( Witcher 3 and bloodborne included )

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It's a game were you have to grind to get your gear which is something I love to do, but I completely agree on the critisms on Destiny.


I'm also disappointed in Bungie for leaving out disc-content to make it DLC, disappointed a lot in this actually

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I'm a bit shocked at these high numbers of people still playing Destiny.

Personally I found the game boring I'm even thinking of trading it in tbh.

My friend is living on this game though at the moment, he loves it.... I just don't see the lasting appeal.

But that's just me.

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looks like a lot of people enjoy this game just goes to show you everyone on this site HATES games ........ HaterSpot

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Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I think however there were two hype trains. The marketing hype train for Destiny and the hate hype train for Destiny. I'm personally having a blast.

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What ? I had the same stance. I mostly look for technical errors in reviews. Aside from that I can form my own personal opinion.

CoD for example was rated high yet had some of the worst spawning and targeting.

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3,200,001 I just logged in.

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Same thing they say all the time for COD and it goes back to less numbers.

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Destiny = bad halo clone, without any apparent story, boring graphics, and mundane grinding

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<< LINK REMOVED >>This game does everything Halo did with more. The graphics are fine and better than any f*cking Halo ever did. Halo aliens are childish and lack in variety. This game has 4 awesome, unique alien species all with different,unique back-stories. The gameplay is polished and exciting and grinding has been part of almost every games that dont follow a strict,linear,streamlined story that holds your hands until the game is over. I believe you simply suck at games that arent that kind of cinematic,streamlined trash that would rather tell a f'cking story instead of delivering gameplay-wise like most of the ignorant gamer-pretenders cinephiles plaguing most gaming websites nowadays. You also lack patience and attention like I pointed in my earlier post

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3.2 workers thats nice

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What new thing did Bungie pioneer with Destiny again?

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@bdrtfm Nah, Ubi did that before Activision. Ubi also paved the way for huge sales due to hype with the a possible side-effect of utter disappointed. Activision is following suite but has gone one big step further: making a game that will continue to make money in the long run. Ubi is singing in their praises for Activision by now and EA must have felt left behind.

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