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The Beta For Ghost Recon: Wildlands Had Over 6.8 Million Players

Published Thu, 02 Mar 2017 16:20:23 -0600

The Ghost Recon: Wildlands beta this past weekend was the largest beta event at Ubisoft so far. Some of the stats from the beta are pretty mind-boggling- over the course of just four days Ghost Recon players logged a collective 34 million hours and killed over 1.2 billion cartel members.

Players also logged a collective 2.8 million hours in night vision, 1.3 million hours flying drones, and made 12.5 million base jumps. Oh, you didn't know there was base jumping? Ghost Recon: Wildlands is a massive game spanning 21 different provinces with a massive amount of different ways to play it. That's one of the things Ubisoft has always tried to do with their open world titles and when it works, it's fantastic.

And at least in Wildlands, it looks like players are using all that freedom to clean up drug trafficking, have fun, and help their teammates – 44 million teammate revivals were performed during the open beta period. So either we like our NPCs or we're at least nice to our friends even in a world where we can steal planes from drug runners in Bolivia. That's comforting to know.

To commemorate the historic number of players, Ubisoft created the following graphic with all of those stats for you in one convenient infographic. It'd make a nice side-banner.