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[Poetic.Injustice]

Almost 13 million people--12,869,066 to be exact--have played Bungie's shooter Destiny, the developer has revealed. The milestone, which Bungie announced on its blog, comes after the release of Destiny's free demo for all platforms. It's unclear how many copies of Destiny have actually been sold.

Destiny's 12.87 million players have created 22.93 million Guardians, and together have spent 872.4 million hours in the game so far, Bungie went on to say. The developer also revealed some staffing numbers, saying it currently has more than 500 people working on the game and/or its sequel.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/destiny-nearing-13-million-players-500-people-work/1100-6424361/

 

[Tesseract]

absolutely why

 

[Floridian]

The Grind is real.

 

[Deadly Joker]

 

[Afrocious]

That's a lot of hamster wheels.

 

[Papercuts]

500+ people lighting up a blunt going "ayyy lmao" while having no idea what they're doing.

 

[N30RYU]

500+ ppl working on random Xür objects...

WTF

 

[Yagharek]

Just to be clear, none of those 500 people are writers, correct?

 

[BigDug13]

The game AND/OR its sequel. If that's the criteria, of course everyone they're employing is working on Destiny 1 or Destiny 2.

The OP headline is misleading. Article states 500 working on this game and/or its sequel.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

Just to be clear, none of those 500 people are writers, correct?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

also those poor people. That game was soul crushing and the day I stopped playing I was happier.

 

[fedexpeon]

500 people?

Only 1 writer and creative director on staff I am assuming?
Also a couple environmental and character assets designer as well I bet.

300 must be the marketing team.

 

[DrWong]

Just to be clear, none of those 500 people are writers, correct?

It's the PR team.

 

[Breakfast at Noon]

You guys are too harsh on this game, yes it's story is shit but it is damn good fun.

 

[PranooY]

Just to be clear, none of those 500 people are writers, correct?

Lol, good one.

 

[TI82]

If they had 500 people actually developing the game there would have been new content in the dark below

 

[TrojanBlade]

500 people coping, pasting enemies environments and replacing colors to create new DLC

 

[DR2K]

New Genre: Baby's first MMO.

499 people working on the sequel confirmed.

 

[toastyToast]

oh word?

 

[BigDug13]

If they had 500 people actually developing the game there would have been new content in the dark below

OP made a click bait title. They have 500 people working on Destiny 1 and Destiny 2. Not just Destiny 1.

 

[gadwn]

Well deserved sales.

Oh, uhh, I mean hatehatehatehate!

 

[Enco]

You guys are too harsh on this game, yes it's story is shit but it is damn good fun.

Haven't played the final game but from what I've seen its boring, repetitive and way too grindy and 'random'.

500 people just means more problems.

 

[Squire]

It's a shame that Destiny is entering a similar space to CoD; it's massively successful, but it's not actually all that good or interesting.

 

[fedexpeon]

You guys are too harsh on this game, yes it's story is shit but it is damn good fun.

http://www.cracked.com/video_19204_6-ways-gamers-have-taken-fun-out-gaming.html

This video LITERALLY sums up my thought about Destiny.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

You guys are too harsh on this game, yes it's story is shit but it is damn good fun.

It was fun with friends the first couple of times. Then I realized I was essentially replaying the same missions over and over and over again with little variation, and the multiplayer was broken as all hell. So I left. The lack of content and the way Bungie has handled just about everything about the game, its QA/updates and the community is atrocious.

 

[Krixeus]

Just to be clear, none of those 500 people are writers, correct?

 

[Sojgat]

"and/or its sequel."

 

[molnizzle]

This has nothing to do with sales, these numbers include players of the free demo. Activision still won't disclose hard sales data.

They'll continue to try and skew meaningless player data like this to make it seem like people haven't wised up to Bungie's bullshit.

 

[Nirolak]

Usually I can understand where resources went, but honestly what was everyone doing prior to Destiny 1 releasing?

Did they throw out a ton of content early on or only hire up really late in the process?

 

[Yagharek]

It's the PR team.

Bungie PR is the best fiction to come out of the studio since 2001.

 

[Papercuts]

This has nothing to do with sales, these numbers include players of the free demo. Activision still won't disclose hard sales data.

They'll continue to try and skew meaningless player data like this to make it seem like people haven't wised up to Bungie's bullshit.

Yeah, they still seem to shy away from talking about active players.

 

[TI82]

OP made a click bait title. They have 500 people working on Destiny 1 and Destiny 2. Not just Destiny 1.

Ah, so its just 1 person and his pet intern working on the expansions.

 

[Enter The 36 Chambers]

Destiny came free with my Xbox One. I played till like 23 or something then traded it and got forza horizon. Was cool for a week or two.

Glad I didn't pay full because it was bare as fuck

 

[RamzaIsCool]

But how much did the game sell? It's obvious a high number, so why won't they tell us?

 

[molnizzle]

Usually I can understand where resources went, but honestly what was everyone doing prior to Destiny 1 releasing?

Did they throw out a ton of content early on or only hire up really late in the process?

They bungied it, same as they always do.

 

[abstract alien]

The complaining and name calling is working!

 

[Krappadizzle]

That is what playing Destiny is like. Grats, but they reeeeeeeealllllyyyyy need to step it up for the sequel.

 

[7DollarHagane]

I bet there was a ton of shit pulled from this game and held for the sequel.

They probably realized they would need another 2 years to really accomplish what they wanted so they patched together destiny 1 from near completed content and continued work towards destiny 2.

There is no explanation for how simple and repetitive this game is.

 

[Nirolak]

They bungied it, same as they always do.

Yeah, but even if we take bungled releases like ACU, it's super obvious what all the staff spent time doing.

Here it's like Bungie had their entire 250->500 person staff doing what for four years?

 

[CaptainSlow]

Stockholm Syndrome?

Held hostage by the grind but just can't let it go.

 

[Nokterian]

500 people and the content is so shallow...

 

[SRTtoZ]

500 people and so little content though? Thats cray.

 

[neogaffer1]

Usually I can understand where resources went, but honestly what was everyone doing prior to Destiny 1 releasing?

Did they throw out a ton of content early on or only hire up really late in the process?

Rumors say that they threw out a lot, like that leaked story from Reddit a while ago that also mentioned content that wasn't in the final game. The fact that the E3 2013 trailer had part of a cutscene that lined up with what that person described may lead credence to that, too.

 

[darkwing]

13M people? no wonder the OT13

 

[bearythebear]

I'm playing DA:I right now and the amount of content is Destiny is a joke...

 

[Krappadizzle]

I'm playing DA:I right now and the amount of content is Destiny is a joke...

Logic dictates that DA:I was made by 5000 people then.

 

[Phaethon0017]

You guys are too harsh on this game, yes it's story is shit but it is damn good fun.

Pretty sure they moved the OT (13 now btw) so the rest of GAF could forget how many of us still actively play it.

I'm fine with bashing the faults (it has tons) , but you have to recognize that mechanically it's still the best console FPS in a decade.

No excuse for the overpriced underdeveloped DLC though.

 

[Lakitu]

Why don't some of those staff members release an expansion that isn't a complete waste of money and a cash grab? How about a brand new signifcant and well-written storyline, multiple new raids and strikes, a shit ton of new weapons and armors and brand new planets (Jupiter, Mercury, Europa)?

It wouldn't be enough to pull me back in personally but it may be a nice thing for all those players who have stuck with Destiny through so much of Bungie's crap.

 

[7DollarHagane]

Destiny =

Destiny 2 =

See also: ground zeroes

They packaged up a basic version of the game they wanted to make so that they would have a game to release this year.

Those 500 people are continuing to work on the real destiny for 2016.

 

[Krappadizzle]

Yeah, but even if we take bungled releases like ACU, it's super obvious what all the staff spent time doing.

Here it's like Bungie had their entire 250->500 person staff doing what for four years?

No shit. Seriously, what the hell did the do with all that time AND manpower?

 

[RespectThySole]

What exactly are they working on.. more barebones "expansions"?