Halo: Reach infographic spills stats for first three months

by Ben Gilbert on Dec 21st 2010 11:50AM

The Grunt genocide continues, a fact highlighted in Bungie's latest and very thorough infographic for Halo: Reach. 11 billion grunts have met their demise at the hands of a Spartan, representing a full third of all Covenant kills across all gametypes. Between September 14 and December 10, players have logged "just over 1.3 billion games," taking up a collective 24,000 years of actual human time and earning 900 trillion credits.

A stunning 1,500 people have managed to hang on to enough of those creds to nab the "Pestilence" armor effect, while only 1,000 have earned "Inclement Weather." More unbelievable? 320,000 people have won the "Unf-believable" medal, earned by completing 40 kills without dying. We totally would've gotten that one too, had that kamikaze Grunt not popped around the corner at the last minute. Never again!

The infographic can be seen in full just below the break.

Source: Bungie.net

Tags: bungie, bungie-weekly-update, Halo-Reach, infographic, microsoft, microsoft-game-studios, statistics, stats, xbox

Reader Comments (49)

so much human time!

@catbandit
We're ready for the alien hordes though.

@SmokemeaKipper all we need are robot soldiers that we can control with the XBOX controller

I didn't know people were playing it still.

Well, that many, anyway.

@Ellimem

You didnt know many people were playing a halo game?

...Seriously?

@Faenix
It's a valid statement. The population only gets up to like 150k users during peak times, and I've seen as few as 20k people playing. Not very good for "the biggest game of the year."

@Prox Halo Reach still manages nearly a million uniques every day. Not exactly the same thing as nobody.

Besides, given that there's tens of thousands of people playing at any given time it's not like you'll have any trouble finding a match. There has to be only a couple hundred people, if that, playing TF2 online (360) and it's still easy to find matches without running into the same people over and over.

@noyesa Who said nobody?

@Ellimem "I didn't know people were playing it still."

You.

@noyesa Read the next line, moron.

@noyesa
I'm not trying to say that "nobody" plays Reach. Nor am I claiming I ever have problems finding a match. I'm just agreeing that those numbers are surprising given a population that's only 15-17% of what you'll find on the top Xbox Live game right now. I'm also saying that it's surprising that a Halo game has such low numbers (relative to previous Halo games) so early after its release.

@Lucky48
I'm pretty sure we're talking different points here. You're saying that the population of a given game doesn't matter as long as its players can reliably find matches (which I agree with). I'm saying that this specific game (Halo Reach) appears to be under-performing when compared to previous games in this franchise.

Unfortunately, any time you mention Halo Reach, Black Ops, etc. on this (or just about any other) gaming blog, your comments are lost in a sea of fanboy-ism. Whether that's due to a vast amount of "omg i luv reach!" comments or through downvoting because I'm not giving the game a blowjob, it's still a shame and can prohibit intelligent discussion.

I got the the "Unf-believable" on day 1.. Dont believe check it out. GT: TrUeJiM Mk VI

@TrueJim Mk VI That's very interesting.

@TrueJim Mk VI I'll be sure to send you a cookie ;) seriously though congratulations that's hardcore...

Unfrigginbelievable requires 40 kills only in Multiplayer Matchmaking (meaning you don't fight Grunts but real people).

In Firefight (and Campaign), where you might fight Grunts and get killed by suicidal grunts, you need 1000 kills without dying to get the medal.

Just sayin'.

@slimshady They're both pretty damn difficult though.

@slimshady: It just means about that many people did the "get a million points in fifteen minutes" Firefight thing. That would get you that medal fairly easily.

No armor effects for me yet :( I kinda want to see if there's anybody above Field Marshall yet, which is the highest i've seen so far.

@Artemis Entreri

The only downside to the ranking system with Halo is that its not necessarily skill that gets you that rank (though it will get you there faster). Everytime I see someone who is a Field Marshal or Commander I just think "wow...you play a lot of Halo don't you?"

Otherwise, I do like that it is possible to keep playing and have fun rather than just hit that difficulty ceiling where you would just keep getting slaughtered to rank up like the old Halo days.

@Misfit Toy Yeah, it seems to take a little bit of the fun out of the ranking system. Performance during a match seems to have relatively little to do with how many cRs you get at the end.

At each rank (I'm Warrant Grade 3 so I get about 500-700 per Team Slayer match) you basically are guaranteed a certain amount of credits, so being a high rank isn't necessarily something I have tremendous respect for, I just imagine that to be at those ridiculously high ranks already some people have to have sunk a thousand hours into this friggin' game.

@noyesa Well the only way to get better is through practice so a lot of time spent in game will probably equal more skill. Especially the way the matchmaking system works.

i just can't believe that its 24 thousand years of playing time already. its just a HUGE amount. thats just awesome (and shows that we probably all play a bit too much)

I would like to have a poster version of this.

Come on joystiq, this was on bungie.net like 5 days ago..

@Mikey XBL gamertag Sgt Mikey 516

Well then you should have tipped Joystiq five days ago ;-)

They're not staffed that big you know... tips from readers is how they hear about some of these things.

@Mikey XBL gamertag Sgt Mikey 516
And in those 5 days, many people who don't follow Halo news or check the weekly updates, but still find this information interesting, hadn't seen it. Not everything needs to go up the very second it's released to still be valid news.

"24 Billion Covenant Killed"

A Covenant is never killed... they're just Missing In Action.

@Nofriendo

I'm having difficulty understanding your statement, is it humorous or serious?

@Kamizar

It's a reference to the opening cutscene.

@This Little Man Says His Name Is It's a reference to the books.

Well, maybe not in this case, but it will always be a reference to the books by proxy.

I have the best-looking Spartan of all time.

@A Sandwich
What's your GT?

@SuperWoody64

Game Older

6.82 million copies sold, compared to Halo 3's 11.30 million (according to VG chartz). Isn't that slightly disappointing considering how big this franchise is?

Not trying to troll here btw. Imagine I'm asking this in a kind, curios and inquisitive manner, as opposed to a brash, hurtful troll manner. ;)

@Pure Black World Tendency

But how long has Halo3 been out compared to Reach?
You can't forget to take that into account, as I'm sure there are people to this day buying reach... even more so now that Christmas is just around the corner.

@Pure Black World Tendency well one of those games has been out for several years, and the other one has been out for about 3 months.

@Pure Black World Tendency
Besides the fact that Halo 3 has been out a lot longer. What is the basis of those sales numbers from VG chartz? Nobody knows.

@Pure Black World Tendency It's not like it's done selling. Those 11 million for Halo 3 are over three years worth of sales. Reach had higher first week sales, and is seeing the same rate of decline.

Look at ODST, it's sales have virtually doubled through 2010. Reach has already sold more than ODST's life to date sales in its first three months.

I was under the impression that most games made the bulk of their sales in the first few weeks, but I might be mistaken. I have been mistaken many time before. I'm not clairvoyant like Pachter damnit!!

/Runs away crying

@Pure Black World Tendency They usually do, but you're talking about a quarter to half of all sales, usually not most of them.

To put this into perspective, Halo 3 sold 5 million copies between its launch on September 23, 2007 through November 30th, so it looks to me like they're selling similarly. Halo 3 went on to sell, like you said, 11.3 million copies, and I would say Reach is probably on track to do well.

The excitement around this game has perceptibly fizzled though, whereas Halo 3 didn't go away for a long time. Either way, if Reach has half the success of Halo 3 (which it is) it's a huge game.

Stopped playing once I got the last achievement for Lt Col.. I was bored way before then (by week 2 of playing)... you can only kill so many grunts before you lose the will and have to play something else, so I just did the dailies until that last blip.. took four weeks.. got the blue visor & started with flaming helmet

11 billion grunts isn't 1/3 of the total Covenant kills. The infographic says 24 billion Covenant kills, and 33 billion TOTAL kills (meaning Spartans killed in matchmaking). /nerd

@Trojan

Oh... the nerd never ends my friend. It is there. With you. Forever.

/drama

I adore Halo: Reach.

That is all.

I've contributed one heart attack, a gold visor, and one unfreakinbelievable to that list.

i wish this was a poster

Say what you want about Halo but it really is an amazing series. The fact that so many people still play it and so many more are getting into it.

yeah man I like halo reach better anyway bungie really took Their time with the multiplayer.campaign could have been better but halo games have a huge life span. thousands of people still play halo ce like
me.

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Halo: Reach infographic spills stats for first three months

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