Over 60 Million Hours Logged on Star Wars: The Old Republic

It feels great to contribute to the over 60 million hours that have been logged so far on Star Wars: The Old Republic, described by publisher EA as “the fastest growing subscription MMO in history.”

It’s no surprise that Star Wars: The Old Republic had, and is continuing to have, a hugely successful launch period. Developer BioWare made a point to make a pretty immersive storytelling experience, and while the gameplay has been described by some as “World of Warcraft in space,” and not exactly incorrectly so, the overall narrative structure goes far beyond that, to a level that is unheard of in most single player RPG’s, let alone MMORPGS, which are not exactly known for the subtlety of their storytelling.

In accordance with this huge success, publisher EA capitalized on the statistics by releasing a ton more somewhat irrelevant ones, detailing the number of characters created, the capacity with which we have to fight each other in PvP battles, and just how many NPC’s Old Republic players have slaughtered. Here’s a look at some of the more noteworthy statistics:

Over 60 million in-game hours — roughly equivalent to watching all six Star Wars movies over 4 million times
Over 850,000 Sith Warriors and over 810,000 Jedi Knights created
Over 260 million quests completed
Over 44 million PvP battles
Over 9 million space combat missions completed
Over 3 billion NPCs killed

While these statistics are certainty impressive, it’ll be interesting indeed to see if BioWare and EA can keep the momentum up and satiate their rabid fans with enough new content to keep the Old Republic strong. Regardless, it’s been a great ride so far in this galaxy, and hopefully we’ll see this MMO go topside and overcome the likes of World of Warcraft.