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Rockstar trots-out eye-opening stats.

Someone was murdered in Red Dead Redemption every six minutes during the first two weeks of the game's release.

That means there were a whopping 132,904,068 murders in total, according to Rockstar-released stats gathered by GameSpy.

Those numbers deduced that every RDR player has been run over five times.

RDR witnessed 15,072,596 executions in those two weeks. That's 15,000 times the amount of real people executed in the United States since 1975.

In-game soldier deaths amounted to 13,250,327 - a number equal to the Soviet and American deaths of World War II combined.

Slightly more uplifting figures recorded were 5,773,917 hats shot off during duels, $3bn spent in-game, 8.6 litres of alcohol drunk on average by characters and 300,000 miles travelled by train. That last number equates to travelling around the world 12 times.

The most hunted animal were deer, which lost 28 million of their species.

To accrue all of that, you spent 14 million hours playing the game. You'd need to play for 3710 years on your own to reach such dizzying numbers.

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Vice.Destroyer #1 2 years ago

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I still haven't got this game.
I suck.
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ron_aldo #2 2 years ago

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Totally meaningless. How many blades of grass were trampled by horses?
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iwantmynameuk #3 2 years ago

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ooh i`m a stat-man, skibbity bibbity bob
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Fab4 #4 2 years ago

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How many people were massacred by cougars?
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berelain #5 2 years ago

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@ Fab4

"How many people were massacred by cougars? "

1.7 million. All of them me. I hate those bastard animals -_-

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brseg #6 2 years ago

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I dont see a stat for honor. That might actually be an interesting one: do people choose the honorable path. Oh, and yeah, a cougar kill stat.
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ignatiusjreilly #7 2 years ago

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Over 9000.
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Mkwone #8 2 years ago

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132,904,068 murders, wow thats nearly as many as Midsomer Murders has had.
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Wheatley #9 2 years ago

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I'd be more interested to know how many players drowned in knee-high water.
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NimbusTLD #10 2 years ago

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Sensational news title FTL.
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Lord_BeeJee #11 2 years ago

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Plz come to PC, need my cowboy fix!
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dr_zoidthrob #12 2 years ago

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I've finished the game and haven't been run over yet - Which means some poor sod is really really unlucky
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warthog2k #13 2 years ago

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Will pimp out my sister (again) for a PC version.
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bad09 #14 2 years ago

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I am killing a kitten every 6 minutes until they finally announce that PC version. Here kitty kitty kitty....
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deadmonkeyuk #15 2 years ago

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Yeah, there were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident.
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jtodroc #16 2 years ago

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Yeah those cougars are bastards!

I'm not a fan of bears either but the cougars are definitely worse.....

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metalangel #17 2 years ago

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I went to cougar town and it wasn't full of MILFs, I want my money back! And a new leg to replace the one that was eaten!

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Excors #18 2 years ago

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One every 6 minutes for 2 weeks means a total of 2*7*24*60/6 = 3360. That's quite a long way from 132,904,068 (which is 110 per second). Where does the 6 minutes figure come from?
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Lukus #19 2 years ago

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How many whores were killed when it became apparent you couldn't sleep with them?
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Fab4 #20 2 years ago

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6 'game' minutes?
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Byzanite #21 2 years ago

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And doesnt it say the Wolf was killed 55 million times making it the most killed rather than deer?
Love a bit of stats though.
Need to see how many fall-to-deaths too
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ignatiusjreilly #22 2 years ago

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6 'game' minutes?

Can't be, there have been 156,945 years of "game" time, which only makes 846 murders a year.
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Excors #23 2 years ago

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Fab4: An interesting thought but that would require game time to be about 40,000 times faster than real time, so a day/night cycle would take around 2 real-time seconds and the two weeks since release would have covered an in-game time period of 1.5 millennia. That sounds improbable.

Edit: Oh, right, it's based on the 14 million hours of cumulative game time across all players, i.e. each player was murdered once every six minutes while they were playing. That makes sense (but the headline doesn't).

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ignatiusjreilly #24 2 years ago

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OK - players played for 14,000,000 hourse, and commited 131,904,068 murders.

131,904,068/14,000,000 = 9.4 per hour, or roughly 6 a minute!

edit: Guess we got there at the same time

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TheDudesRug #25 2 years ago

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Love stuff like this. Byzanite is correct, according to that image, wolves bought the farm way more than deer. Quite right too, noisy sods.
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UKLL #26 2 years ago

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1 horse stuck in a wall every 10 seconds...
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Mkwone #27 2 years ago

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I like that GCSE (maybe higher) maths is being used to calculate how many fiction people were killed in a game.
if my maths questions were like this i'd be more interested. It's a lot more appealing that a train leaves london at 5:40 and travels at 21mph etc etc
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Fab4 #28 2 years ago

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If a train travels at 21mph, then the answer is always "shoot the driver".
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Petulant_Radish #29 2 years ago

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All those stats and I still can't kill a bear with a knife, the furry bastards.
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Whatsfor #30 2 years ago

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Actually EG, it looks like the most hunted animal was in fact the wolf...
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DrunkDec #31 2 years ago

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The WW2 comparison was bad taste surely?
I need to give RDR more time, maybe in the winter!
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Stuz359 #32 2 years ago

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That's horrific! 132m people? That's convinced me not to buy the game then. Seems the game is cursed.
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Toothball #33 2 years ago

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I wonder how many women have been run over by trains since the game came out.
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The_Inquisitor #34 2 years ago

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I'd like a bear stat. I've been killed by bears more times than I've killed them, I'm bloody scared of them now.
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Acrid #35 2 years ago

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2 things:

1. Why are Rockstar invading my privacy?
2. Why are Zavvi selling this for �55, are they fucking crazy?
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Hypercube #36 2 years ago

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I've tried to rid the world of armadillos - I don't trust them, the grunty little things. I'm sure they're on wheels. Just look at them, they're not right. A buffalo rifle really fucks them up too.
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TonyHarrison #37 2 years ago

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"All those stats and I still can't kill a bear with a knife, the furry bastards."

Shoot it a couple of times first to weaken it, it still counts as a knife kill if you finish it off with the knife. I once spent nearly five minutes chasing a wounded bear around the woods on foot just so I could get it with the knife... It took a few hits to go down as well, so I was running along side it trying to slash it with the knife, then catching back up again and hitting it again...

Good times.
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JahB #38 2 years ago

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1. Why are Rockstar invading my privacy?
they don't. you have to sign up for the social club for this stuff to become available to R*

2. Why are Zavvi selling this for �55, are they fucking crazy?
because it's worth every single penny. and surely you've heard of the internet, where a few clicks usually means big discount.
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man.the.king #39 2 years ago

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"One RDR murder every six minutes "

I bet that statistic falls short against real-world rates.
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kimchibaka #40 2 years ago

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Poor show with the historical comparisons Eurogamer, in very bad taste.
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chrisjm #41 2 years ago

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Is Jessica Fletcher in it? death seems to follow her everywhere.
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