"I haven't touched Halo 5 and Destiny is to blame" (Destiny)

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Friday, October 30, 2015, 06:16 (3408 days ago) @ Cody Miller

“If I would have done anything to Halo 1, it would have been to do something to draw people back into those experiences that they enjoyed the first time. Even in the smallest ways, just to give them an excuse to get together and do it again.”
- Jason Jones, July 9 2013 via IGN

This is what has always baffled me. People did do that. Do you know how long even average Joes played Halo? I know so many people, who are complete casual gamers, who fire up and play through Halo again every once and a while. Chris101b and I just did it for all 6 games.

I don't think Jones means "every once in awhile".

I also don't think a lot of people did that. At most, one replay a year, with perhaps an extra one just before the next sequel dropped.

Someone who plays Destiny on a regular basis, if they are doing the Daily Heroic on most days, has probably replayed Destiny's entire campaign close to 10 times now in a single year, and that's not even including strikes, raids, PVP, Prison and Court of Oryx.

I'd love to get a big stats dump from Bungie comparing how people play Destiny compared to how they played Halo, but I'm not holding my breath for it. It seems likely to me that all the old Halo data belongs to 343 now, and the two studios now are essentially competitors. I don't think either will want to open up a war on that front.