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MechWarrior Online Beta Stats Explained, Release Date Revealed
MechWarrior Online developer Piranha Games released some fun statistics about the damage its players have caused in the open beta so far.
Since the beta began last October, more than one million users have spent 9.6 million hours destroying nearly 47 million mechs. This works out to be about 3 billion tons of scrap, or nearly 8,400 Empire State Buildings.
If you somehow piled those mechs into an enormous tower of junk, they’d reach to the moon and back over 1,200 times. The total cost of this wreckage is over 18.3 billion C-bills. However, that’s nothing compared to the 10.1 trillion C-bills players have earned overall.
12.6 billion missiles have been fired, and in the last month alone, over 2.4 billion lasers were fired. It sounds destructive, but as Piranha Games points out, that’s enough energy to power 87 million homes for a month. Perhaps we’ve found a new alternative to solar power.
If you’ve been enjoying the MechWarrior Online open beta, you won’t have to wait much longer to check out the full product. The free-to-play game launches on September 17.
Our Take
The new Man of Steel movie features some ridiculous destruction, but I think MechWarrior Online might take the trophy. As for the release date, I’m glad to see it’s soon so I can finally hop in. I try not to devote too much time to betas where things are always in flux, especially in a competitive shooter.
Click over to the next page for the full press release.
VANCOUVER – July 3, 2013 – MechWarrior Online developer Piranha Games announced today that the epic BattleTech-inspired online game has exceeded one million registered pilots in its Open Beta and publisher Infinite Game Publishing has pulled back the curtain to reveal some Mech-tastic statistics from the popular free-to-play online game – including the long-awaited 1.0 launch date: September 17th, 2013.
Since the launch of Open Beta, players have spent more than 9.6 million hours or 1100 years playing MechWarrior Online, resulting in the annihilation of more than 46,941,487 Mechs. These loyal fans have lovingly destroyed 3 billion tons of metal on the battlefield, which is 8,359 Empire State Buildings, resulting in devastating carnage across the Inner Sphere, MechWarrior-style. Stacked end to end, these destroyed Mechs would reach to the moon and back 1,221 times. The total cost of this damage is a staggering 18,316,519,465 C-bills.
As far as the economy of the Inner Sphere, the MechWarrior Online player base has earned a whopping 10.1 trillion C-Bills. By comparison, the U.S. GDP is 14.99 trillion USD. The Inner Sphere fires far more missiles than the U.S., however, as 12,623,214,618 missiles have been fired since Open Beta.
This month alone the amount of lasers fired by pilots is a “mere” 2,451,270,519, but who said that Mech power can’t be used for good? That’s enough raw energy to power 87 million homes for one month.
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