You've All Spent Far Too Much Time Playing Destiny, Some Would Argue

I don't know whether I'm happy or sad that I've committed about 300 hours to this total.

I would love these sort of stats broken down further, time spent loading, time spent idle, time in particular areas, but at the same time I guess this might exceedingly invasive.

I gave up 3 days after my purchase. I sold it to a friend who has the platinum trophy and still plays it every day. Infact, thats all he plays. All day until around 4am. He wakes up at around noon and starts playing all over again. He has no job, no life and is depressed. I've tried to get him to leave his room, but he's just not interested.

From my brief time spent playing Destiny I could tell it was a good game. It has good graphics, great feel to it but, for me thats where it ended. I found the story to short and to boring. Their just wasn't enough in it to keep me interested. Everything was a grind with little reward.

If Destiny and No Man's Sky had a baby, that would be game worth spending 2 billion hours playing.

I'm on and off with this game

The thing is push square , you dont "jest" at all. If you guys really dont like destiny , then quit writing negative articles about it 10 times a week!! FFS!!

I've put in about 130 hours into Destiny, so I'm a bit above average. I don't know how much more I'll put in though. The Taken King's price doesn't help either.

Those 100 hours per-player is largely due to bad RNG. I know, cause it took me 5 months to get my first Ghally.

According to the official app, i've contributed about 346 hours across all my characters. Naturally 310 of those were on my hunter alone.
HUNTER MASTER RACE!!!11!1!!one!1

To be fair, the sheer multiplicative factor always makes these things sound so dramatic. Let's say everyone on Earth sneezed once today. Let's also say a sneeze takes 2 seconds. That would mean that today alone we've spent 237.5 million minutes sneezing. If all those sneezes had to happen one at a time, it would take 451 years. Then accumulate that happening each day for a couple of years...

I do wonder how many of those hours happened each month, and how the months compare to each other (e.g. the first 6 months compared to the last 6 months). I'm talking about Destiny now, not sneezing.

Destiny is essentially a shooter version of World of Warcraft, in that you quickly hit max level then spend lots of time getting loot so you can do harder stuff so you can get better loot so you can do even harder stuff. IIRC everquest used the same formula. That pretty much explains why people like me keep coming back.... Its quite addictive.

I really want a destiny xpac that does a crossover with Borderlands.... Guardians go to Pandora! I know how realistic that isn't, but as far as shooters go those are two of my favorites. Borderlands has a sense of humor and interesting characters, arguably a fun story. But not being always online takes something away from it, and BL never really gets the intensity or the mood that Destiny manages to set... so a mix would be perfect.

I think Dinklage got a bad rap for the acting considering the script and the character didn't leave him much to work with.

I set it down maybe the second week after how, i had gone flawless, done every poe, and experienced the greatness that was upgrading my voc to 365. Once that was done (max took 2 days, mayybe 8hrs total playtime) and i had gotten rid of my chest keys i was done. Moved onto a backlog that included finishing watchdogs, shadows, far cry, dying light, inquisition, then eso and the witcher that had largely been created by destiny and the raid grind. Not having a raid is pretty much the only reason i was able to kick the addiction. Its also led the 20-30 members of my clan to for the most part take in the least a break, and for my core raiding team 4 of us are not getting ttk. Once the habit was broke, it was like the sun started shining on us and we saw the light. Theres a combined 5-6thousand hours (one teamate is at 1500hrs....) among us that are walking. Its an ok game, but getting a team of 6 together, matched with pinpoint brilliantly done controls was the addiction. I get why people get hopelessly hooked, but ive got fallout coming, and there will be no keeping me away from that game (work, family excluded).

I have about 30 hours or so
Well I like to play destiny more and more, but my limited time for ps4 and many other games hindered me

Whoa that's insane! I've spent about 70 hours on this.

Iv logged around 1100 hours since say 1 (on the official app it gives you time played so that won't include time in orbit or in the tower) the game is horrifically bad if you attempt to play alone but once you have a group to raid with its addictive.

I don't know how many hours I've put into Destiny. Enough time to get lvl.34 on my Titan and 33 on my Hunter. I looked forward to playing it everyday until slowly I started to cut back on my time with it. It got to the point where after I got all of the good exotic weapons and armor maxed out I would only login to do the Nightfalls and buy heavy ammo synthesis from Xur. All of my friends who I played so many hours with quit playing a long time ago. When I heard about what they were going to do to Gjallerhorn and Icebreaker, that was it for me. I was done. I have started playing Planetside 2 instead.

I gave it a fair shot but it felt so unbelievably empty to me right from the start that I gave up after a week or so

@ShogunRok with all that time and you didn't complete the raid with our clan, shame on you

All the people moaning about loot drops and rng - you can play the game when YOU want, the game scales up with you to level 20. After level 20 that's when things change - but due to the alterations with the last dlc going from level 20-25 can be done In no time. Getting the likes of gjallaghorn or some exotics is meant to be difficult. Ive put in about 80 hours finished both raids, completed the story, all strikes and most of the dlc. I have some exotics and honestly - due to my under commitment I think the game tries to win me back by throwing goodies at me.

I don't agree with some of the mechanics, but the game is a blast.

@WARDIE your pal needs help, get him to a doctor.

Got meself a nifty 500 hours played.

Done everything I wanted with the game, got my gally. Finishing The Witcher now.

@themcnoisy You forgot to mention, all that with a blue rocket launcher that tickled Crota just a little. I'll never forget how much I laughed that night.

It baffles me how much everyone argues over Destiny. Not that I'm forcing my opinion on the game, but just stating what it has and hasn't got gives a clear indication to what I think.

The mechanics are fantastic, shooting feels smooth and movement works really well. The game looks fantastic graphic wise and this can't be argued against.

The story is tiny, we all know both them DLC's were meant to be in the original game and then they've had the cheek to charge an extortionate amount for something you essentially should have already had. Half the raids are "cheesed", does that really make you feel like you've fought for that gear? I hated going into a raid and wanting to do it properly, to let someone else do it all for me while I sat looking at my orb after I'd thrown myself off the cliff. The
exotics feel inconsequential and feel as common as purple gear.

I platinumed the game and left at that. I already feel I put too much time into a game that gives so very little back.

@Davros79 I've actually just started a new character on it, so no, I don't hate Destiny. It is pretty fun and easy to rip into it, though.

@Matroska even with 451 years worth of sneezing happening every single day, that would only add up to 164,615 years of combined sneezing for every calendar year.

In just under 11 months, Destiny has racked up 228,310 years of combined play time. No matter how you try and look at it, there is simply no trivialising the fact that it is an absolutely insane statistic!

If you average it out, 691.85 years of Destiny have been played PER DAY since release. That right there is mental.

I've ploughed about 350 hrs