JoyStats: Reaching Rank 50 in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 takes about 282 hours

Battlefield: Bad Company 2, EA's addictive team-based shooter, requires approximately 282 hours -- or 11 days and 18 hours -- of play to reach the highest rank of 50. The statistic was provided to Joystiq by Darius Kazemi, president of Orbus Gameworks, a consulting company that helps game developers keep track of what players are doing in-game. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA). Kazemi collected the data of 3,373 player profiles from BFBCS.com using their API.

For a jarring sense of scale: the average Rank 50 player has put 295 hours into the game, the equivalent of over seven weeks of working a full-time, 40-hour-a-week job. The time requirement to rank up increases dramatically around Rank 25. Kazemi explained, "From rank 1-25 it takes about 2 hours to climb to a new rank. From rank 25-50 it takes about 10 hours to level up." Read on to see how it all breaks down -- if you have time, that is.

Average times spent playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2:

• Rank 1-10 players spent 3-24 hours in game
• Rank 11-20 players spent 25-44 hours in game
• Rank 21-30 players spent 48-100 hours in game
• Rank 31-40 players spent 111-221 hours in game
• Rank 41-50 players spent 228-295 hours in game

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