Players Have Spent 12,000 Years in Borderlands 2

[Sarah LeBoeuf]

Players Have Spent 12,000 Years in Borderlands 2

Gearbox Software's Borderlands 2 has shipped five million copies to retail in just over a month.

It's been just over a month since Borderlands 2 was released, and the Gearbox Software-developed sequel has shipped over five million copies to retailers worldwide. Gearbox President Randy Pitchford called the response "incredible" in a press release from 2K Games, stating that "players have embraced Borderlands 2 as their next hobby."

Since its late September launch, players have spent 12,000 years' worth of time "shooting and looting their way through Pandora" and interacted with Claptrap in Sanctuary over 50 million times. "We are just getting started and have incredible momentum to improve and add to the game all the way through the holiday season and beyond. We can't wait to show everyone what more we have in store for Borderlands 2," Pitchford concluded. Borderlands 2 received a fifth playable character class and its first campaign add-on DLC earlier this month.

Of course, just because five million copies were shipped to stores doesn't mean the game sold that many copies, but that's usually a pretty decent indicator of how a game is selling. Borderlands sold three million copies [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/98466-Borderlands-Has-Sold-3-Million-Copies] in the first four months after its October 2009 release, and it looks like the sequel is on track to surpass it.

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[Daystar Clarion]

I'm glad.

It's a brilliantly fun game.

Hey, Gearbox...

 

[Falterfire]

If that's retail, I have to imagine there's at least a million more digital copies. Everybody I know who got the game for PC did so through Steam and it's been near the top of the 'most purchased' list on Steam since its release. Right now it's number 5, putting it one slot ahead of Dishonored.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Hooray!

I'm really glad this game is doing well, and Gearbox deserves every praise they get from it.

*looks at avatar*

Why no, I'm not biased, why would you suggest that?

 

[TecnoMonkey]

Good, the game deserves every sale it gets.

 

[vallorn]

Gearbox. if my Ps3 wasnt a brick right now I would own this game so fast.


Hmm. maybe my PC can run it.

 

[Blazing Steel]

At first I was:

Then I was:

Now I'm:

Nice job Gearbox, hopefully this makes up for Duke Nuken Forever bomb.
[sub]Seriously Borderlands 2 is Awesome and deserves all the praise it's getting and then some[/sub]

 

[schmulki]

Lets see, not looking at my Steam account right now, I have a level 36 Axton (I want to say I sank around 200 hours into him, since I did a lot of exploring with him), then I have a level 40 Mechromancer (I think she's up around 100-150 hours) and then a low level Sal that's around 10-20 hours. So lets call that 350 hours total.

And I've played the least out of any of my friends.

Yea, I can see how this number was hit.

 

[Terminate421]

I just hit 50 with Zer0

I approve of this news.

 

[kajinking]

Holy wall sphincter! That's a lot of games!

 

[Jiefu]

12,000 years (or, more properly, player-years) is 105.1M player-hours

For a conservative estimate of 4M players, that's 26.3 hours per player. For a liberal estimate of 7M players, that's 15 hours per player.

You know, before anyone says "omg what if all these borderbutts tried 2cure cancar this is what is rong with humnity blah blah blah here are my personal biases" and makes a fool of themselves.

 

[gphjr14]

I'm enjoying this game but can't help but feel half of this years are farming not actually enjoying the story, missions, dialogue etc.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

It's a great game, there's no doubt in my mind about that. But it doesn't quite tickle the same nerve as Borderlands 1 did. Nevertheless I've put about 30 hours into it and don't regret a single one.

 

[Paradoxrifts]

I clocked a 110 hours of BL2 myself and while I certainly have no regrets I can't help but feel that it'd be a superior game if they hadn't locked a huge amount of special effects out of procedural generation system. The rarity system should tell you how awesome your gear is in comparison to other gear, but at the end of a gaming session you should always walk away having tried a piece of gear you picked up while playing.

 

[malestrithe]

It's sad really. If we took those same 12,000 years and focused them towards cancer research, we could have discovered a cure for a few strains of it.

 

[ZekeTheHobo]

It's sad really. If we took those same 12,000 years and focused them towards cancer research, we could have discovered a cure for a few strains of it.

Thing is, curing cancer is not nearly as fun or attention grabbing as blasting a midget's head off with a shotgun that shoots lightning.

If this cancer cure was tucked away behind a giant robot or something, we'd have seen major progress already.

Also,

12,000 years (or, more properly, player-years) is 105.1M player-hours

For a conservative estimate of 4M players, that's 26.3 hours per player. For a liberal estimate of 7M players, that's 15 hours per player.

You know, before anyone says "omg what if all these borderbutts tried 2cure cancar this is what is rong with humnity blah blah blah here are my personal biases" and makes a fool of themselves.

 

[LazyAza]

As someone with a lvl 50 who has about 10 unique weapons and 30 epics I'm certainly looking forward to having new content to use them in. Hurry up with the next dlc gearbox!

 

[rickthetrick]

I've clocked in a crapload of time on this game, and have only co-op'd like once. This game is the tits! My only complaint so far is Demongs. Those damn things make the end boss look like a pussy. Okay that's not really a complaint, more of an annoyed observation.