MAG Beta 5.0 Statistics

If you remember our box art reveal last month, then you may also remember that we coupled statistics from MAG Beta 4.0 and 4.5 right alongside it. Now, the numbers from the open testing period that ended last Sunday (MAG Beta 5) have arrived too – and in fine Zipper tradition, we wanted to share some of those stats with you, our dedicated fans.

How did Raven fare in the Beta 5.0 Shadow War?

Here’s what we have:

• Before the end of the beta on January 10, there were well over a million downloads (860,000 in North America alone) of the MAG beta client worldwide.
• Of the 619,000+ people who gained at least one point of experience, 52,846 of them qualified for Squad Leader, 10,249 people qualified for Platoon Leader, 3,181 warriors made it all the way to OIC, and a mere 143 diehard soldiers made it to the level 60 experience cap.
• The breakdown of PMC preference ended up like this: Valor – 38.7%, Raven – 37.2%, SVER – 24.1%
• Who won the Beta 5.0 Shadow War? Despite their smaller numbers, SVER took the Sabotage war – barely edging out Raven. Meanwhile, Valor took the Domination title; narrowly escaping a loss to Raven’s flock.
• More than 225 years worth of battles were played out over the week — with an average of 3.2 hours played per person.
• For the third beta period in a row, of all PSN users who participated in our testing phase, chennault2424 was the most prolific – he earned nearly 110,000 XP; making his grand total for the last three testing periods in excess of 360,000 experience points.
• Though chennault was the top guy, the remaining Top 5 list of players included My_Digital_Enemy, gomi-bukuro (jp), basquasher (jp), and Behike (jp).

And that’s it for this installment of the MAG Beta report. For more on MAG and what to expect when it hits shelves on January 26, keep checking back with the PlayStation Blog and Official MAG Blog in the coming days and weeks – and don’t forget to follow Zipper on Twitter and the Zipper Facebook Fan Page!

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