It is controversial Grand Theft Auto Onlineof Halloween activities It proved somewhat popular. Zombie-slaying North Yankton Nightmare, with grand theft auto 5The opening location, Ludendorff, has been so popular that Rockstar had to increase the Community Challenge goal tenfold. Three days later, even this goal was halfway accomplished.
Yesterday, October 13, Rockstar announced on its X account that since the new mode was launched on the 10th, more than 430 million zombies have been dispatched by players. That’s more than halfway to its revised zombie target of 800 million, which itself was already an increase from the original target of 80 million.
In addition to other goals, such as surviving three waves of zombie graveyards to earn the “Scary Cat Mask” and 100,000 GTA$, the community challenge has driven a surprising number of players back to the already popular online game. game.
european players point to Statistics showed that 400,000 people logged in when the event began, and Rockstar quickly revised the goal, realizing that 80 million people would soon log in. according to same statisticsthe number of independent players is now close to 1.3 million, and the huge goal of 800 million has soon been achieved.
This was yesterday, so who knows what things will be like after enjoying a three day weekend in the US. Of course, the challenge will end in the next few days, a few weeks before Halloween, which was certainly the time frame Rockstar originally envisioned.
Maybe there should be a term for this thing that everyone always underestimates the scale of what people are capable of online. At this point though, it seems unbelievable that anyone could predict that any game with “GTA” on it would be so enthusiastically received, even though it’s been 11 years since the last new game was released.
As one person responded to Rockstar said“If we hit 1 billion, we’ll get GTA 6 Trailer 2?”
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