29.45 years of gameplay on Day 1 of BF 1943

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matt247 on 10 July 2009

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-1943/733928-good-news-bad-news.html

Fun Facts
I need to share something fun and cheery now. And even though many can't get in, many have and played a lot of games already.

* On Day 1 there were 29.45 years of gameplay completed on Xbox 360
* Over 5 millions kills in the first day!

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How much were downloaded first week? 40k? if so, 30 years of gameplay are methematically impossiblle...

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sinha on 10 July 2009

Xen said:
How much were downloaded first week? 40k? if so, 30 years of gameplay are methematically impossiblle...

First WEEK? It's been out since Wednesday morning...

80k people on the leaderboards on the first day. The 30 years number probably includes not only those 80k people, but everyone who just played the free trial version.

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I'm talking factual data... Besides, he IS talking about its first day, right? 30 years? do you know how much hours is that?

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=4196

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Xen said:
How much were downloaded first week? 40k? if so, 30 years of gameplay are methematically impossiblle...

40k first day. Probably about 60-70k first week if not more.

And it's cumulative. If every player played for 6 hours, that's 27.8ish years of gameplay so this must mean that of those who bought it, the average first day playtime was over 6 hours

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Sounds really over the top...

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Xen said:
Sounds really over the top...

Why is that? And that's only counting 40k players. The article on the front page is an estimate, but the leaderboards already show 80k players on the first day. (those have to have purchased the game, I believe) At this point there are already 200k players on the leaderboards.

If it is 80k players, then they all just need an average of 3 to 4 hours to reach that.

On launch day things go crazy and people always play longer periods so even 6 hours or more seems reasonable.

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Xen on 10 July 2009

In a very rough calculation (365x24x30 : 4 ) you'd need 65700.

Plausible, I guess, hehe. Still, if you caount play time in YEARS it sounds over the top, right?