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6/15/2004 12:26:21 AM
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28 Million Strong... and Growing
Everyone knows that the new Bungie.net has seen a substantial increase in overall traffic and membership. When we launched the new site back on April 13th (our "official launch day" even though we were live starting the afternoon of the 12th) we got nearly one million page views in a single day. To put it in perspective... that's a LOT. The crusty old Bnet of yesteryear didn't have fancy stat-tracking so we really don't have much hard data to compare it to, so suffice it to say that we've already eclipsed the lifetime traffic of the old site in a matter of weeks.
Here's a quick look at the past few months of Bungie.net by the numbers:
[*][b]28,000,000[/b] total page views (as of 6/7)
[*][b]176,886[/b] forum posts (as of today!.. and only 3 moderators, yikes!)
[*][b]37,000[/b] daily unique visitors (on avg.)
[*][b]24,300[/b] new user accounts created (as of 6/7)
[*][b]13[/b] new Halo 2 screenshots
[*][b]4[/b] death threats
[*][b]2[/b] marriage proposals
[*][b]1[/b] complaint from Microsoft legal regarding image of a drunken Webmaster on our error page
It's been an exciting few weeks and the game isn't even out yet! Stick around, we're just getting warmed up and there's plenty of good stuff yet to come... And tell your friends and your friends' friends, the more the merrier. Our Underground Army is going to need to be rather large before we can attempt to act on our final, secret plans for world domination.
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all right ahaloplayer, even though I think you need a big attitude adjustment, I am willing to answer two of your questions. 1. Can the Plasma Sword be used in SP? Well, Bungie has already said that the features in MP are going to be in SP also, so of course the Plasma Sword will be in SP. 2. What weapons can be dual wielded? I believe that Bungie has told us the answer to this to. But even if they hadn't it's only obvious considering they want to make the game realistic, so Only guns that you can use one hand with like the SMG and the Needler can be dual wielded. Although I don't think you deserved the answers I just gave you, I hope they make you feel a little better and a little less angry at Bungie for their lack of information (although to me, it seems like they have told us a ton more than any other games!). So now will you shut your pie hole or duct tape your fingers or something so we dont ahve to listen to you whining about how much you want to know about the game? Oh and by the way, you said you were buying Halo 2 because Halo was awesome, not to find out what Bungie couldn't say, so why are you making a big deal out of what they aren't saying now if you supposedly don't care? And if your computer is proccessing this stuff slowly then why don't you get a better internet or a better computer altogether? Or better yet, why don't you just stay off the forums that you say "make the people who post sound like a retard"? All right, I have said what I came to say. I am content.
