In the MMO shooter Destiny the Cryptarch Rahool had his big day on Wednesday evening. He and his new colleagues decrypted like mad.
There was an engram backlog in Destiny: Some of the engrams dropped last week could not be decrypted at all. Many Guardians saved the legendary engrams before to decrypt them only after “House of Wolves” to gain new packages through reputation increase, where also “new engrams” would be contained, which would bring new rewards. So the plan. For the uninitiated: Engrams are basically the loot surprise eggs of Destiny.
In practice, the engram backlog and its resolution caused the Cryptarch in the Tower, the most hated person in Destiny Master Rahool, and his somewhat younger colleague in the Reef, Master Ives, to have their big appearance.
100 million engrams are not enough for Master Rahool
Activision has now revealed to IGN how many engrams were decrypted during the HdW launch on May 19 and how much glimmer the Cryptarch pair produced. The numbers are impressive:
- 105 million blue and purple engrams were decrypted
- 11.2 billion glimmer were produced by the Cryptarchs.
A Bungie employee commented tersely: Still not enough for Master Rahool.
There are also some numbers available in the Destiny subreddit:
On launch day, the number of page views skyrocketed to unprecedented heights. There were 2.8 million page views on Wednesday from nearly 250,000 “unique” users.
Admittedly, for most people, the numbers mean little without reference points. It’s hard to compare users and clicks with football fields. Therefore: It is just insanely much. About as if all citizens of Braunschweig had visited the site that day and spent some time there reading a lot.
Okay, that doesn’t sound so impressive now. As I said … comparisons are difficult here.
