Urk... (Destiny)

by Claude Errera , Friday, August 15, 2014, 08:42 (3550 days ago) @ car15

Just because a ton of people played the Crucible during the beta doesn't mean reaction wasn't tepid.

EO: "Well it was actually just one mode out of the game, four maps. We did throw Iron Banner out too. To challenge the tepid reaction, I was actually looking at the data earlier today and people played an absolute metric ton of it. We're able to look at player activities, what they play, how many hours they commit to it and the number of people who played it was pretty humbling.

I know he's basically doing PR, so I can forgive his line of "reasoning" here, but I hope he knows that it's a myopic way to judge the quality of the game.

Hmm. I'd guess he was focusing more on the number of hours played PER PERSON, not just the numbers who jumped in. And while it's true that you could play 16 hours a day for a week and then come away and say "meh" (and some people on this very forum did exactly that)... it's sort of hard to accept the words over the actions.