It's been about six months since Just Cause 2 landed, but in a game where you can run around an island and do whatever the hell you want with a wide variety of awesome things it's no wonder people have been playing the heck out of it. If you need some numbers to back that up, Square Enix sent them over to us. There's some interesting stats here.
For instance, "570,329,283m is the combined height of each player's highest base jump, which is roughly 14 times the circumference of the Earth, or the equivalent of free-falling from the Moon one and a half times." Then there's, "The total game time of all players in Just Cause 2 is 26,118,470 hours. That's equal to 1.1 million days of playtime, or just under 30,000 years."
Am I the only one that finds gameplay stats like that a little depressing? Clearly I love playing videogames and use much of my time to do it or I wouldn't be here, but man I could do a lot with just under 30,000 years worth of man power.
You can find the rest of the stats in the sexy "infographic" below.
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10:00 AM on 10.02.2010 | 
I really liked taking that single seater prop plane and flying around the islands with it. Felt like a tourist
No, their maths is right. 1.1 Million hours divided by 30.000 years makes rougly 360 (days).
Would it be better spent committing genocide or starting another war? Seriously, what's so wrong with playing video games? And what're you doing here?
I think Dale North should avoid numbers :P
Dtoid front page then?
Well, look on the bright side, Matt. It's entirely possible for all of this to be serving a better purpose than you seem to believe. Why? I'm glad you asked.
The government has been secretly collecting this data the entire time. See, they already have these weapons and devices made in real life. They just need to figure out the best way to use them. So what they do is, they release prototype training programs to the general public in videogame form. Kind of like in The Last Starfighter.
It really does make sense when you think about it.
So, please tell de government I'm ready to train with the grappling hook...