Bungie.net have recently announced some figures which reveal the latest tally of their online stats which shows that the total number of online games played on Halo 2 now exceeds a 500 million. Which possibly translates to at least 100 million man-hours playing the game, assuming an average game time of 10-15 minutes.

"We've surpassed lots of cool numbers in the past, including numbers of total players, hours played and all that stuff, but we thought we'd note that at as of around noon today, a half-billion games of Halo 2 have been played on Xbox Live. That's a lot of games," says Frankie on Bungie's own forums, "To clarify - that's actual games, not player-sessions. That also doesn't include games we lost because the website was down, or through other technical issues. Again, this proves that my scheme to attach Halo 2 sessions to my Paypal account would have been genius."

Date: 2006-06-07

Posted by: Robert Cram

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