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It’s been a month since developer Bungie released Destiny, the overhyped science fiction first-person shooter destined to become publisher Activision’s third multi-billion dollar franchise, joining the likes of Call of Duty and Skylanders.
Since then, the publisher reports, players have been relentlessly exploring the Earth, the Moon, Venus and Mars, in spite of the game being criticized for its lack of compelling story or engaging and interesting gameplay, at least compared to gamers’ expectations.

A lot of action

Activision revealed that Destiny has 3.2 million daily players, who spend an average of three hours immersed into the futuristic world imagined by Bungie.

“It’s been an incredible first month for Destiny,” said Pete Parsons, COO at Bungie. “Players are logging more hours per day then any game we have ever made, our servers have withstood millions of guardians experiencing Destiny and none of it would have been possible without our amazing community.”

Along with other achievements and statistics, the developer revealed that the average Destiny player has logged into the game at least 21 times since launch, and that the game is played 1.8 times per day on average.

Bungie also mentioned that in the past three weeks, Destiny had more active players than Halo 3 and Halo: Reach combined, for the entire time span of the two titles.

And a lot more still to come

The developer is committed to improving its customers experience, and the Iron Banner, the latest event hosted by Bungie, was criticized for not delivering on people’s expectations, and as such the company promised to fix things going forward.

The main beef gamers had was with the fact that although the Iron Banner event was advertised as giving a shot at immortality to high-level players, it turned out to still make skill a big factor in the equation, which lead to a lot of low-level proficient gamers taking out hardcore looters with ease, which annoyed a portion of the game’s fanbase.

The team explained that the main goal was to keep things somewhat balanced in the Crucible, and to offer raiders a palpable advantage, but not one that would be impossible to overcome, even for new characters.

Bungie is grateful to its fans

In any case, the numbers published by Bungie are impressive nonetheless, especially when you consider that people are still enjoying several hours of content each day, a month after the game’s release.

The developer thanked its fans for building such a strong community and for the passion and enthusiasm with which they engage in playing the game, mentioning that just looking at the raw numbers made them feel like the journey was well worth the effort.

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Destiny is available for purchase on disc or via digital download on PlayStation®4, PlayStation®3, Xbox One and Xbox 360.The official website is here Destinythegame

Official Destiny gameplay trailer