Leaving a game running in the backvround while doing other things still adds up
Anon is a gamer
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DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
glimse@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I have several hundred hours in PAYDAY 2 because I didn’t have heat one winter and the main menu kept my room warm lol
vale@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
one of my steam friends has a program that farms steam hours, just for the shock factor Image
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
this is considered strange behavior in my house
Zanudous@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Sooo Furry Hitler 2 is not as good as Furry Hitler 1?
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
The sex scenes have fewer fetishes
Donkter@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The fact that he does this is the shock factor.
JulieLemming@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
On the other hand I purge friends from my list regularly because I feel too shy
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Is there a game called “My girlfriend’s cock is bigger than mine”? I need that alongside with the program that farms steam hours.
shneancy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
i have 1200h in skyrim, 1000 of which i clocked in because as pre-teen who was yet to learn that being trans is a thing i unknowingly used it to escape dysphoria. can’t feel bad if i’m spending most of my days as male cat, the chosen one at that!
Khrux@ttrpg.network 4 weeks ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if basically every person with over 1k hours in a game isn’t seeking some sort of escapism, not counting the anomalies like people leaving servers running etc.
I suppose every minute in a game is escapism of some sort, but escapism from dysphoria or something else significant, I think would be common.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I don’t think you need 1k hours to indicate games are being used as an escape. It could be a social thing where a group plays regularly and has invested time in the group and world such as Starcraft or WoW. I don’t disagree at all that games can be an escape for people with life issues, I just don’t know if hours invested is a great indicator. I’ve got over 3k in one game, but that’s mostly because it’s got quick rounds, I can start and stop between other things with no penalty, it’s been out for 4 years, and I still find it fun. The time adds up.
crapwittyname@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I too use Skyrim for dysphoria therapy! Although my dysphoria is less intense and just linked to… gestures broadly
Caitlyynn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Yeah, precisely this
mtpender@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I have over 1,900 hrs on Deep Rock Galactic.
The key is persistence.
Rock and Stone! oT
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
3500 here. Actually, the key is procrastination.
Kepion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Rock and stone! It never gets old oT
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Did I hear a Rock and Stone?!
Onionguy@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
If you don’t rock and stone, you ain’t comin’ home! oT
WILSOOON@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
ROCK AND STONE, TO THE BONE
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
尺ㄖ匚Ҝ 卂几ᗪ 丂ㄒㄖ几乇
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Steam just tracks how long the program is running. My old rig played Dark Souls 3 24/7 sometimes because the .exe file would glitch and stay open until I manually terminated it. I averaged 168 hours a week coming back from a 2 week vacation once.
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, my friend has this same issue. She has been playing The Sims 4 for like seven months now.
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
You let your PC run through 2 weeks of vacation?
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
It normally would go on sleep mode and be off anyway so I hadn’t noticed it was on when I left. That was how I learned that the .exe would just stay running and not allow things to shut off normally when idle.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I would hate that so much that I would get Dark Souls removed from my account.
De_Narm@lemmy.world 4 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.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 4 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 4 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.
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
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.
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 4 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.
PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 4 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 4 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.
TwanHE@lemmy.world 4 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 4 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 4 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.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m sorry but I want to take a slight tangent to show just how high my power level is when it comes to this shit.
I was interested in tracking my game time on my games in years well before Steam was a thing. We had a family computer and a printer.
Some are expecting an excel spreadsheet, which was absolutely possible, and I’ll come back to that, but no. I was maybe 8 years old and my solution was to print off an entire page of numbers, cut each of them out individually, then every time I played a game, I’d place the next number inside the CD case.
Naïve me thought printing up to 20 would be enough, but once I want over that, I simply kept the 20 in the case and added another number inside.
Years later - in my teens in the mid-00’s - I was obsessed with Pro Evolution Soccer. This is where the excel spreadsheet came in. I logged every single game, the result, the date I played the game, colour coded the results red/yellow/green to show loss/draw/win respectively, won trophies, and a bunch of other stats.
I didn’t move on to Steam properly until the start of the 2010s. Since then my biggest game is 2016’s Motorsport Manager, which has logged in 1720 hours, followed by Civ V which has 1122 hours since I started playing in 2017.
My current time sink is Football Manager. I have played over 500 hours in little over a year. Anyone who has played FM knows those are rookie numbers.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Do you already know you’re autistic, or??
Fedop@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
I’m enamored at the level of data gathering. You could make some cool plots!
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
macisr@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
The only game I have that many hours in is because I left it open the whole day while I was working to take 5 minute breaks to play it.
dwindling7373@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
I quit League some half a year ago after 10 years of playing. I can see now how impossible it seems to play that consistently when you just consume different games rather than having a single title.
It’s a completely different experience.
As a side note, what’s up with all the people saying “I played a game”, just say what game it is, we are all nerds in here.
jsqribe@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
League quit Linux and that’s when I realised I didn’t actually need it anymore… logged around 8-9 years around 1-2 games average per day can’t believe we played it that long…
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
I am curious how many hours I played League, but it’s probably a depressing amount.
dwindling7373@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
Is it depressing if you had fun?
I love my time on earth and I think it’s wild that we can experience the intricacies of a realtime mind-battle with hundred of thousands of fellow humans around the world. #noregrets
Now, World of Warcraft… 🤮
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
I liked league, but they kept adding heros and the games always lasted forever. I think the long game times contributed to the toxicity. A bad team can murder 1 hour of your life.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Easy! Just fall asleep while trying to squeeze in some gaming before bed. Pretty sure time on the title screen or a ‘kicked due to inactivity’ notification will count towards those hours.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
At least half of my Elite Dangerous hours were slept through.
What space trucking does to a mf
salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
My friend just shared this with me: screenshot from Steam showing a playtime of 8000 hours for Final Fantasy XIV
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Omg, I’ll share this with them and say they have rookie numbers haha
gamer@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
FFXIV released in 2013. That’s ~12 years ago, which is about 105,120 hours of human existence.
105,120/28,625 = 3.6723144104Meaning you’ve played an average of 3 hours and 40 minutes per day, every day, for the past 12 years (and that’s a slight under count because the game hasn’t hit its 12th anniversary yet)
That’s 5585 hours MORE than a full time 40hr/week job; nearly 3 whole years of pure labor.
All I have to say is congratulations, you beat the hardest game there is: capitalism. Enjoy your furry weeb paradise, friend.
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
[deleted]meliaesc@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And still not maxed smh… I absolutely loved my time playing rs2, formed much of personality, but I could never invest that much time into a game again. 😔
Soulg@ani.social 4 weeks ago
Love rs3,I should play my account again
Ironman btw
_____@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
There isn’t even 2k hours worth of content in XIV
I wonder what your friend does. My guess is they’re an altoholic or they just RP every day, perhaps even ERP.
salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Pretty shitty that you immediately assume the worst of people, just for having a game they enjoy.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
How ?
salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I ask myself the same thing! I wish I had a singular game I loved as much as they love FF14
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I’ve got a couple games with stats like that; and I do play them a lot… but I think a big slice of the time is that I often leave the game open basically all day while dipping in and out to do other things.
The play time is ticking up, but I’m having lunch, or doing laundry, or clearing the house or whatever; and I come back to the game when I’m done.
Omgboom@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I leave the game running at night while I sleep
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
uh, factorio just hits the neurons right, idk what to tell you.
Minecraft just hits my autism where it hurts. I’m a simple man, you entertain my neurons, and i will be happy.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks 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?
Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Warframe is a hell of a drug.
nick@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
I have like 3700 hours in factorio, but I also leave it running when I’m not around… like an idle game
satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Rust can take while to load. I swear a few hundred of those hours were AFK.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Forget to turn the launcher off and your computer off a few times and it adds up.
Some people are also lucky enough to have a bullshit job and still be remote.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
It’s me. I have numerous games like this. The answer? Alt-tab + multiple monitors + powerful PC. It’s easier for me to just switch to another application and switch back when I want to keep gaming than to close the game completely and open it again… Only sometimes it’s more than a day before I get back to playing again. And there’s how you end up with numerous games with thousands and thousands of hours on Steam.
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Leaving *Commandos" on pause when I don’t play racks up hours it seems 🤷🏼♀️
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
When you find that one game that you love that also has infinite replayability. Four years later your likely to have thousands of hours if you play it everyday.
don@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Some like a game enough to play it for years. I wasn’t one, until I found an obscure racing combat game called “OnRush”, and have over 3700 hours in it. Can’t even get it on the PS Store anymore, but I still play it drunk now and again.
NostraDavid@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Summary: 3k hours into World of Warcraft, Retail + WotLK private server.
I’ve been playing vidya since… 1992? Classic Monochrome-green machine to play CalGames on.
Ever since then, my limit for a game tended to be about 100 hours. I got 500 hours into Clicker Heroes, sure, but that game was made to be run in the background, so that doesn’t really count.
It was not until I found World of Warcraft where I slowly pumped hour after hour into its massive world. I found it somewhere in 2021 - near the end of BFA. The Shadowlands beta was out, is when I started. OK sure, I played a few hours at a classmate’s house back in 2005, but I don’t feel that counts. Anyway, I found that there was a F2P version where I could freely try out most classes, quite a few races, and a ton of quests.
I’ve walked everywhere (I even tracked where I’ve been in a massive image of the worldmap for about 500 hours-ish?), I walked because the mounts weren’t available for F2P yet, did all the quests I could, tried every race (which includes the starter zones), every class available (had an excel where I planned it all out).
I ended up with 1000 hours. 500 for my main (Human Paladin - been wanting to play that since Warcraft 2), and another 500 spread out over my 40 or so alts. Ever since I’ve been coming back, because with each expansion release, a little bit more content becomes available, so I racked up another 500 hours there.
In the meantime, WotLK Classic was going to release, but my income was still shit, so I found Warmane, a non-Blizzard server. You could level 7x as fast, which I did a few times, simply to learn the difference between “Classic” and “Retail”.
Then it hit me. I want the Loremaster title. That meant doing a little over 3000 quests (about 99.99% of all quests in the game). But 7x made me level too fast. Luckily for me, there was a 0.5x XP option. So that’s how I grinded. I did every starter zone, every regular zone, every dungeon (I was typically the “overgeared” guy of the group, since the rest was rushing through). I had fun!
That grind took me 1000 hours total. Plus another 500 for all the alts before that.
I’m pretty sure I played over 3000 hours total.
Oh, and I ended up getting my Loremaster title, as well as the World Explorer Tabbard (because I’ve been everywhere).
My favourite places to run around was 100% the old world. Black Rock Depths just has an atmosphere that’s completely missing from TBC onwards :(
I’ve been thinking of playing TurtleWoW, but not sure if I can survive the Vanilla client - the WotLK one was already pretty rough 😂
SlapnutsGT@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Got almost 5k hours between the two Ark games. About 4k of those are me playing by myself lmao
Dunno what it is but I fucking love that game
slazer2au@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I have something like 4k hours in Warframe.
However, many of those hours come from being a broke teenager and wanting to sell stuff for platinum (premium currency). Any time I was home, the game was running, and I had listings up on warframe.market. Most of those hours were just me doing homework and waiting for the chat message noise.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My max is csgo with 600 hrs and I’m still trash at it.
Sabata11792@ani.social 4 weeks ago
You just got to find the right game that will ruin your life.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
A typical working year is approximately 2,000 hours, just for context.
That is nuts.
latenightnoir@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Woo, means I can officially add Warframe to my work experience (2.7k)!
dwindling7373@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
I know I guy that put Overwatch among his experiences. It was for an IT position and he contextualyzed it as some kind of acquired soft skill.