DESTINY 2 Players Waste A Total of 9.3 Years Of Human Existence

Bungie has not been a stranger to asking players to complete grandiose tasks in order to obtain weapons or complete community events. The newest thing is a massive donation pool of an in-game material called Polarized Fractaline. This material is obtained by completing bounties, activities and investing in passive Fractaline farms. To sum all this up, Bungie has set a massive goal of 9,777,777,000 Polarized Fractaline to donate by the entire Destiny 2 player base.

To put that into perspective, a player can only donate 100 Fractaline at a time, and instead of it being a spamable button, it takes pressing the “select” button 3 seconds to just donate once. Like in this gif:

So, this brings us to the 9.3 years of human life wasted on this donation process. As seen below from a Reddit post by u/SlamsMcdunkin, he’s figured out through some simple and straight forward math that the players would spend 293,333,310 seconds, translating to about 9.3 years just pressing and holding whatever button was needed to donate that Fractaline.

Since Bungie just announced the final stage count is 9,777,777,000 I thought I'd do a little maths.

9,777,777,000/100 = 97,777,770 total donations

97,777,770 x 3s = 293,333,310s

293,333,310s/60 = 4,888,888.5 minutes

4,888,888.5min/60 = 81,481.48 hours

3,395 days

9.3 years

Thanks Bungie!

This doesn't include load times, or getting frames, or buying glimmer from the spider.

Now, in all honesty, many more hours all over the world have been wasted by gaming communities just waiting in lobbies and other various tiny things, we just thought it was hilarious that in the span of a few weeks, years of human life was wasted on virtually nothing. The reward for reaching this goal isn’t even that massive. As of now, we know that the reward will be a yellowish shader for armor inside of Destiny 2, and that’s all that has been confirmed. However, there are rumors that this will lead up to the famous Trials of Osiris returning, because of the return of Osiris this season, mentions of a lighthouse and our task of building a beacon to gather guardians (the Empyrean Foundation). If that is the case, then the price of a couple of years is well worth the return of one of Destiny’s best game modes.

Let us know what you think! Was this massive communal effort a good idea? is it worth the possible return of Trials of Osiris? Comment below and return for more Destiny news!