In Destiny, Xur, Agent of the Nine, had the Icebreaker last weekend. And that cost a lot of money. Additionally, we get to see the world’s first kill of Crota in Hard Mode.
The Weekly Update from Bungie is here and provides new numbers.
Last weekend, Xur had the exotic sniper rifle Icebreaker available, and his window display was more lucrative than it had been in a long time. The Obsidian Mind sparked small Void-related joy among Warlocks, and the Glasshouse was offered to Titans for the first time. But of course, it was the Icebreaker, that sought-after weapon in Destiny, that particularly stimulated the players’ desire to purchase.
They really dug deep into their pockets and laid down 19,436,440 Strange Coins just for the Icebreaker!
According to Bungie, this corresponds to 2,159,604 heroic Weekly Strikes on the highest difficulty level. 1,143,320 Icebreakers have been circulating in the game since then. Xur can buy a lot of cat food for his tadpole babies on Jupiter. Or whatever those guys eat!
Today, on Friday, January 23rd, Xur will visit the Tower again. We will report whether he can increase his record earnings once again. We know what weapon would do that for him, but we have heard that speaking its name brings bad luck. And if anyone believes in such rituals, then it’s us.
Over half a million Hard Raids have already started
The other impressive figures from Bungie this week all relate to the Hard Raid that started on Wednesday evening. 24 hours later, 3,344,124 Guardians had participated in 557,354 Raids against the hard mode version of Crota. This is double the number of those who ventured to take down Atheon back then.
The race for the First Kill was achieved by the clan “One and Done” in an incredible 27 minutes. It is a lesser-known clan that is not very active on social media and also refrained from streaming to not reveal their tactics.
They deny accusations that they might have cheated. “We are lactose intolerant, we don’t like cheese.” In the Weekly Update, the Kill video for the World-First Crota in Hard Mode was posted as proof of their impeccable performance. Judge for yourself whether everything went right.
More about the MMO shooter from Bungie, which we only refer to as a Buy2Play MMO shooter, and which could also be described as an instanced coop online multiplayer loot shooter or “Shared World Shooter” or “Björn”, can be found on our fully packed Destiny theme page.
