If I’m playing only 1 game for 3 months and it doesn’t hit 500 hours I clearly wasn’t playing it that much. I have a ton of spare time though.
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De_Narm@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I honestly don’t get it. I’ve been playing the same game for about three months of real time now and clocked in about 120 hours. I didn’t play anything else and and it’s consuming most of the time I have to myself. The game is Witcher 3.
Now, that means every 1000 hours would take me 25 months or just over two years of playing a game exclusively. Probably more sind my data above includes my Christmas vacation, which was quite lengthy. No single game is good enough to take such a big place in my life. I could play so many shorter better games.
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 5 weeks ago
That’s an insane amount of time per day. Are you a child or without a job? That’s 5.5 hours a day.
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I have work today, I’m there now, and could still put in 6 hours if I felt like it or was deep enough in a game to do it.
Im almost 30, work just over 20 hours a week (weekends for the extra $10/hr). No kids no partner.
I have 3 games recorded over 1000 hours and Minecraft doesn’t record but would be 5000+ easily over the last decade.
I am rural so there’s not really anything else to do unless gardening is your kind of thing.
Kitathalla@lemy.lol 5 weeks ago
I am rural
This is a big factor. I think I doubled my time on the computer when I moved to an area with no true neighbors for miles.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
5.5 hours a day is easy when you have a job if you don’t have anything else going on. I have much more time for games as an adult than I did when I was a kid.
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 5 weeks ago
Are you single?
I can only play 1-2 hours a day with a family. I could see that if I got home and just ate and gamed.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
In 3 months ~64 day would be weekdays and ~26 days would be weekends.
So a likely scenario is 64*4+26*9.4
For me this kind of distribution is plausible during phases when I’m really into a specific game. I’m 31, single, full time employed (which means 42 hours per week, or 8.4 a day, here in Switzerland).
PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
No single game is good enough to take such a big place in my life
You obviously never played Warcraft 3 between 2004 and 2014.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
The level and art design of the latest expansion is amazing, but nothing compares to classic. Activision agrees and started hosting the servers themselves.
PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I said Warcraft 3, not WoW.
TwanHE@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m not that big into single player games but for multiplayer I usually stick to 1 at a time. Think my steam shows a total of 10k hours over the past 12 years, with 95% of my games played there.
With less hours played each year as higher education cost me more hours of studying.
Kalladblog@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not really. It depends on the game and also the individual. About 50/50 I suppose. Games like Warframe, Skyrim, Civ or generally competitive games tend to be the ones where you’d find more people with quadruple digits of playtime rather than let’s say more narrowed down single player experiences (without mod support) though there are some cases for those too ofc.
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’ve got about 2,500 in L4D and L4D2. That took a solid year or more of playing non-stop, every night. Part of the reason for the divorce. Can’t understand how people rack up these numbers.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
I’m playing Team Fortress 2 since 2010. So it’s not hard to reach high numbers if the game is old enough, which some are.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I put 800 hours into TF2 over the course of a summer… I was wrongfully terminated from my job and got a good chunk of money, so I just played Hats all day every day.
Good times.