Cody, you're way off on this one (statistically speaking) (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Friday, October 30, 2015, 13:17 (3407 days ago) @ Cody Miller

By definition, the average Halo player hasn't even finished the Halo CE campaign. Achievement data has been used to back this up for years; only 30%-40% of the people who play any game will finish it even once.

And the same is true for Destiny! So what does that mean?

The difference is that there are more people who play Destiny on a weekly basis a year after launch than any Halo ever. Most people who buy a game put it down a week or 2 after launch, even Destiny. But Destiny has a larger and more active player base than Halo ever had.

Just look at press coverage: every major gaming website produces a ton of Destiny coverage, and has been doing so consistently for over a year now. Most sites have weekly posts dedicated to covering Xur and/or the gunsmith. Why? Because that coverage gets hits. People are interested in Destiny, engaged with Destiny on a massive scale. I went to the Polygon home page about a month ago; 9 out of the top 12 news items were about Destiny. Halo never demanded that much media coverage, not even the launch of a new game.