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[Update] Even More People Are Playing The Old Republic
Bioware has sent us some updated stats on the success of The Old Republic. We were sent some stats on Friday, but at least one of those numbers has already more than doubled. TOR's title as the fastest growing subscription MMO in history has been firmly cemented.
- Over 60 million in-game hours — roughly equivalent to watching all six Star Wars movies over 4 million times.
- Over 850,000 Sith Warriors and over 810,000 Jedi Knights created.
- Over 260 million quests completed.
- Over 44 million PvP battles.
- Over 9 million space combat missions completed.
- Over 3 billion NPCs killed.
[Original story, posted Friday December 23, 2011] Bioware sent out some interesting statistics today about The Old Republic and the millions who are already playing.
Here are some of the statistics of player activity in easily digestible list form:
- Logged 28 million in-game hours – roughly equivalent to watching all six Star Wars movies, two million times.
- Averaged well over five hours a day playing the game.
- Created more than 3.8 million characters; 510,000 Jedi Knights and 550,000 Sith Warriors.
- Killed more than 2 billion non-player characters in the eight days since Early Game Access began.
Bioware also said that Star Wars: The Old Republic is already the fastest-growing subscription MMO in history. That's pretty good for a game that only just officially launched on Tuesday. What do you think World of Warcraft fans? Should Blizzard be worried, or can the two games co-existent peacefully in the MMO landscape?
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