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Halo 3 reaches 1 Billion matches and 64k years of play time

bungie.net — Saturday night, while many of us were stuffing food into our faces, plenty of folks were still playing Halo 3. At precisely 6:36pm PST, in a three minute and nineteen second game of Infection on Foundry, four players participated in Halo 3's one billionth match.

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  • ghee, on 03/03/2009, -12/+288That's a lot of 12 year olds screaming incoherently into their mics about milkshakes.
  • Wisgary, on 03/03/2009, -4/+200Getting close to the hours spent by people playing WoW... each week
  • Falkon, on 03/03/2009, -2/+112A lot of killing sprees!
  • m3arvk, on 03/03/2009, -3/+100Anyone know what can be made with 64,000 man years of effort?
  • samard2002, on 03/03/2009, -3/+82I just came in here to say "congrats" to Bungie & Co., but now I feel obligated to make some ultra-cool "too hip for Halo" statement.

    I would hate to break the streak of self-important douchebags posting in this thread.
  • kilodelta, on 03/03/2009, -4/+78and the word "fag" has been said 42 Billion times in Halo 3 matches
  • ben162005, on 03/03/2009, -1/+53Maybe Duke Nukem Forever....
  • WarnerK, on 03/03/2009, -0/+51For anybody else who is bored and curious like I was, it would take ~3.3 million people playing 24 hours a day for a week to accomplish that.

    Sounds about right.
  • rreadysetno, on 03/03/2009, -3/+46Tell that to the kids that built the pyramids.
  • abajaj2280, on 03/03/2009, -3/+43say what you want about halo, but i'm still a fan. bungie does an amazing job with giving updates to their players like they do with their podcasts and a new post on their website every couple days.
    also, you can check out every game you've played and track the wins and losses of your games.

    say what you want about halo, but i still love it.
  • djruden, on 03/03/2009, -2/+42When enough people digg a story in a certain period of time it goes to the front page.

    http://digg.com/how
  • vocalyouth, on 03/03/2009, -2/+37The concept of Digg commenters calling Halo 3 players losers and virgins. (!!!)
  • hairyblue, on 03/03/2009, -3/+32you've played for 6.4 years?!
  • inactive, on 03/03/2009, -21/+49Thats a lot of time that could have been better spent bury Mr BabyMan
  • djfreex, on 03/03/2009, -4/+31What a waste of youth potential. Those skills could have been much more valuable on COD4
  • Jordan117, on 03/03/2009, -1/+28To be fair, those games have been around for much longer and can be played on far more machines. Halo's milestone is more impressive when you consider that it was released less than two years ago, and is available on a much smaller platform.
  • JohnILM, on 03/03/2009, -3/+29Hmm, four lebians playing infection. Wow.
  • thetrev, on 03/03/2009, -34/+57wow, a feat that only CSS, Q3A, UT, UT2k4, doom, quake, pretty much every FPS had already reached far before the relevence of such an award was deemed obsolete...
  • theuncommonman, on 03/03/2009, -1/+23Don't pity us, we're having fun over here. Pity yourself for wasting time trolling.
  • pixelate, on 03/03/2009, -3/+25I feel fairly confident in saying that some of those kids will never be ready to benefit society.
  • BlackKnight6, on 03/03/2009, -4/+25Wasn't that Rainbow Six?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWnyUtdcboc
  • rtaibah, on 05/22/2009, -3/+23I know I contributed at least 0.0001% of this! :D
  • cnldelta, on 03/03/2009, -2/+2264,000 man years could have led to less real life vandalism? Not that all Halo 3 players are vandals but there could be a significant percentage of vandals who avoided destroying property due to being 'distracted' or rather occupied by frag fests in Halo 3.
  • ChonoonFiend, on 03/03/2009, -1/+20Wrong. 4.2 trillion.
  • darkuk, on 03/03/2009, -5/+24I wonder how many rounds of CS have been played since its release XD
  • JohnILM, on 03/03/2009, -1/+19Any special prizes for the 4 who took part in the billionth match?
  • inactive, on 03/03/2009, -12/+28If you care about "level design" in video games and you don't work in the industry, your social life has reached the lowest common denominator.

    Normal people play video games to kill time, relax, and have some fun. Get a life.
  • DivineLies, on 03/03/2009, -3/+19yea, they got banned from xbox live...
  • Collecto, on 03/03/2009, -4/+20Mother ***** Master Chief protects Planet Earth and all humans and aliens alike, show some respect.
  • megawiz, on 03/03/2009, -1/+16yea, its 6300 IF all games lasted as long as the 1Billionth game. actual time logged is 2,023,153,340,764 seconds, or 64,109 years of playtime.
  • inactive, on 03/03/2009, -1/+15You haven't played "something else"? It's ***** EPIC!
  • geodebug, on 03/03/2009, -1/+15Shh, @Jordan117, you're ruining the hate.
  • dynamojoe, on 03/03/2009, -2/+15Dude.... decaf.
  • MentalBeaver, on 03/03/2009, -3/+16I contributed approximately 3 minutes of this. I feel proud.
  • mediaphile, on 03/03/2009, -1/+14Which is why they're not saying it's a record. Just a milestone. Something worthy of taking note.
  • commyostrich, on 03/03/2009, -2/+14Steam used to have a status page where it would should the total hours played each month vs their other top games like DoD and what not. It was always in the billions. Or something like that. And now they don't have that page anymore. Tis a shame because I really thought it was interesting to look at.

    Edit: Well it's still sort of there but it doesn't have the hour stats. Just number of players. http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
  • borschwanger, on 03/03/2009, -2/+14the largest pyramid in egypt took <20 years to build. hard to say how many people worked on it tho
  • crossmr, on 03/03/2009, -4/+16Great Korean starcraft players hit that on the third day of release way back when...
  • bradharrelson, on 03/03/2009, -5/+17His nut riders are burying you.
  • inactive, on 03/03/2009, -5/+16Presumably, we bury you if we didn't?
  • return2sender, on 03/03/2009, -1/+12In other news: Man-boobs are now in fashion.
  • irfanmp, on 03/03/2009, -2/+13I bet in the 11 minutes between the submission and your comment, another 57,700 years of play time had occurred.
  • TheKitchenSinkX, on 03/03/2009, -1/+12That's like 1/100th the total US population! D:

    I sure hope those are international servers.
  • paulvq, on 03/03/2009, -1/+12You're playing some pretty short matches there.
  • Gonasadude, on 03/03/2009, -0/+10Last figures that I heard was that WoW has 15 million subscribers. So, 5.28 hours per person/day for a week.
  • Azerael, on 03/03/2009, -5/+15this game is pretty cool guy.
  • noahgelman, on 03/03/2009, -1/+11Well what's your suggestion?
  • Larssonk22, on 03/03/2009, -9/+19Halo3 is damn addictive, nothing beats sniper kills or a slice and dice spree
  • noahgelman, on 03/03/2009, -1/+10I am not your friend
    I won't digg it
    I actually just went and burried it.
    I won't share the story.
    You are not welcome.
  • directedition, on 03/03/2009, -1/+10takes one to know one
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