{"id":9169,"date":"2010-12-29T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"call-of-duty-black-ops-clocks-600-million-hours-of-game-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9169-call-of-duty-black-ops-clocks-600-million-hours-of-game-time","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty: Black Ops clocks 600 million hours of game time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activision has announced that between 9 November and 24 December 2010, 20 million Call of Duty: Black Ops players have clocked over 600 million hours of game time. That&rsquo;s 68000 years.<\/p>\n<p>Man, if they weren&rsquo;t so busy fragging noobs, think of all the things those people might&rsquo;ve managed to do with all that time instead. Like, invented time travel or something. Actually, if they&rsquo;d invented time travel, they could play Call of Duty for 600 million hours in just one hour, by dialling back every hour. In that case, they&rsquo;d have logged 648 000 000 000 hours &ndash; or 73 900 000 years &#8211; by now. Those time travellers would totally pwn these guys.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, all these big numbers follow on from the recent announcement of <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/9101-Call-Duty-Black-Ops-banks-billion.html\" target=\"_self\">US$1 billion banked<\/a> at Activision HQ.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The $1 billion milestone is staggering, but it doesn&#8217;t tell the whole story,&#8221; said Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing. &#8220;The true measure of Black Ops&#8217; success lies in the millions of hours that people are investing in this game and this community. Call of Duty has in many ways become one of the world&#8217;s most engaged social networks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pizza and Mountain Dew stockholders pleased<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}