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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

How many hours yearly do people work?

Assume 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year. That makes 2000 hours a year. So yeah, hiw do people do this shit?

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Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Well they play for more than a year.

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- TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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Contramuffin@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
1000-2000 hours in several games. It’s a mix of several reasons:

Some games are more replayable than others. My high-playtime games tend to be roguelikes, played over multiple years

The more you play something, the more of a comfort game it gets. It becomes easier to just play it mindlessly if you just want to turn off your brain

Some games have inconvenient save systems, intentional or otherwise (especially true for roguelikes). This incentivizes you to just leave the game running overnight instead of saving and quitting
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peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
As the other comment said, more than a single year. But say you spend 6 hours on a game every Saturday and Sunday. Thats 624 hours right there. If you spend 2 hours every week day, that’s 520 hours (1144 hours). I have about 2000 hours in Path of Exile. It came out in 2013, but I really didn’t start playing it until 2018. But I played it off and on through 2023. Or about 400 hours/year. Throw in 300 hours of monster hunter, 500 hours of elden Ring, and factorio, and some other things sprinkled here and there and you get to the 1144 hours.

But admittedly I’m not always playing. Say I take a 15 minute break every hour. That’s 221 hours I’m not really playing. Add on top of it times I take a break and forget that I left the game running. Add some time playing for days off of work, subtract more for breaks.

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