1 billion Halo 3 matches played online
Bungie has announced that the “1 billionth” Halo 3 online match was played at 6:36pm PST last Saturday February 28th, 2009. The one billionth match played was a three minute and nineteen second four-player game of Infection on Foundry.
What’s most amazing about this achievement is that Halo 2 has yet to reach that mark even five years later, where it still tops the charts as the most played original Xbox Live game. And it still has ways to go as it now sits at 798 million total matches played.
And just to put the Halo 3 numbers into some perspective, here are some direct quotes from Bungie’s press release:
If each game of Halo 3 lasted only three minutes and nineteen seconds, mirroring the Infection game outlined above, the total amount of time played would eclipse sixty-three centuries. For those looking for more granularity, that’s roughly 630 decades, 6,300 years, or 2,300,000 days.
But admittedly, that’s working from a pretty rough estimate. No worries, we keep tabs on this sort of stuff. We recruited our database guru, RocketMoose, to provide us with some more accurate numbers. The data point he supplies below is a sum total of all player time spent in matchmaking. If ten players completed a ten minute match, the database would log 100 minutes of total playtime. This figure also does not include data from Custom or Offline matches.
Total Matchmaking Playtime: 2,023,153,340,764 seconds.
Yes, that’s two Trillion seconds, or 64,109 years of playtime.
64,000 years ago:
* Neanderthal walked the Earth.
* Modern Man had yet to set foot in Asia.
* The Battle Rifle was Hitscan.
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