Bungie shares impressive end-of-year stats for Destiny

In the final weekly update of 2014, Bungie shared some impressive stats for their multiplayer shooter, Destiny.

"Right now, at this exact moment, 12,869,066 players have picked up a controller and taken Destiny for a spin," Bungie said of their blockbuster shooter which released in September of this year. The number is impressive, but it's not specified if these are unique accounts that indicate the number of copies sold.

Either way, 22,932,276 Guardians have been brought to life, suggesting most players have more than one character. And, they've spent 872,404,449 hours fighting the darkness.

"By the time you read these words, those numbers will have grown," Bungie said. "Also at this exact moment, over five hundred developers are hard at work to make sure that the world you inhabit will continue to evolve."

"This is your work as much as it is ours. As innumerable and immeasurable your ongoing contributions to our game may be, we numbered and measured anyway, attempting to sum the damage and devastation of a few million enlightened Fireteams," the developer concluded.

Sharing some comparative stats, Bungie added "In the span of time you have spent playing Destiny, the Curiosity Rover could have made the voyage to Mars more than one hundred thousand times."

"If the Guardians populating Destiny occupied a single city, it would be as large as New York City and Los Angeles, combined."

As for content, Bungie also shared that Atheon, the boss of Destiny's initial raid, Vault of Glass, has been killed 2.4 Million times. "At least a dozen of those kills were without cheese," Bungie added tongue-in-cheek, referring to an exploit earlier this year in which players could simply knock the boss of the platform through a series of actions.

Meanwhile, Crota, the boss of Crota's End, the newest raid which arrived with Expansion I: The Dark Below, has only been defeated 769 times sicne its release in December.

Pretty impressive stuff, but as Bungie notes, "only once by a Fireteam of one."

As the holidays approach, these staggering numbers will only continue to grow. As Bungie warned, please be nice to the influx of Christmas noobs.