That is questionable GTA Online‘S Halloween event enjoys quite a bit of popularity. The zombie-slaying North Yankton Nightmare was added to the game along with GTA VLudendorff’s opening location was so popular that Rockstar had to increase the community challenge goals tenfold. Three days later, this goal was more than half achieved.
Yesterday, October 13th, Rockstar posted on its X account that over 430 million zombies have been killed by players since the new mode went live on the 10th. That’s more than half of the revised target of 800 million zombies, which is already above the original target of 80 million.
Along with other goals like surviving the graveyard for three waves of zombies to earn a Creepy Cat Mask and GTA$100,000, the community challenge has brought a surprising number of players back to the already incredibly popular online game.
Eurogamer points out Statistics showed that 400,000 people were logged in at the start of the event, causing Rockstar to quickly revise its goals, realizing that 80 million would not be long in coming. Accordingly the same statisticsThis number of unique players is now almost 1.3 million, quickly reaching the enormous goal of 800,000,000.
That was yesterday, so God knows what happens next after the US enjoyed a three-day weekend. Certainly the challenge will be over in the next few days, weeks before Halloween itself, which was certainly the time frame that Rockstar originally envisaged.
There should probably be a term for the thing where everyone always underestimates the extent of what people are capable of on the internet. Although at this point it seems unlikely that anyone could ever predict the feverish popularity that surrounds anything labeled “GTA,” even 11 years since there was last a new game.
As one person who responded to Rockstar suggests“When we reach 1 billion will we get GTA 6 trailer 2?”
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