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Bungie has announced that a major Halo 3 milestone was reached over the weekend. At 6:36pm PST, in a three minute and nineteen second game of Infection on Foundry, four players participated in Halo 3’s one billionth match.
That’s such a vast number that it’s pretty difficult to comprehend, so Bungie’s done its best to put the milestone into context. For starters, Halo 2 is yet to reach the billion figure, with its matches total currently sitting at 798 million.
Bungie also notes that if each game lasted only three minutes, the total amount of time played would eclipse 63 centuries – that’s 2,300,000 days. Bungie wanted to be more accurate though.
“We recruited our database guru, RocketMoose, to provide us with some more accurate numbers,” the bungie updated explained. “The data point he supplies below is a sum total of all player time spent in matchmaking. If ten players completed a ten minute match, the database would log 100 minutes of total playtime. This figure also does not include data from Custom or Offline matches.”
The total matchmaking playtime is 2,023,153,340,764 seconds – yes that’s over two trillion seconds or 64,109 years. 64,000 years ago Neanderthal walked the earth, but they certainly didn’t play Halo 3.
