Are we counting WoW? Because that's measured in years.
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Your comment made me curious enough to go check my /played, and I regret my decision. Over 500 days of play time.
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oh boy... yeah WoW was around 3 hours a day x 5 days a week for about 4 years. Some days were more, some days were less, and I took a few breaks here and there. That comes out to around 100 days.
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Roughly 30 000 hours in WoW. I've been playing it since 2005 - mostly active, only a couple of 1-6 month breaks.
Quick approximation - let's just ignore the exact dates:
- 18 years * 365 = 6570 days
- 30000 hours / 6570 days = ~4.57 hours/day
During the last 18 years, I've played an average of 4h 34min of WoW every day.
In other words: if I sleep 8 hours a day, during the last 18 years, I've spent about 28% of my waking hours playing WoW.
While I'm at it: I'm 34 years old. I have spent roughly 10% of my life playing WoW.
jfc lmao
Other MMOs: Guild Wars 1 & 2, FFXIV, are all between 1000-1500 hours each.
Outside of MMOs, the #1 is probably Trackmania (2020) at ~600 hours.
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Over 12,000 hours so far on RimWorld. I've had the game for just over 6 years so that is roughly 5 1/2 hours a day. I think it takes 10000 hours to be considered an expert at something.
Hey mom look I finally made something of myself. :)
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Minecraft. Probably over 15,000 hours playing servers modpacks, developing mods. It's been 13 years now!?!
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3,545 hrs in Rimworld. Minecraft is probably up there too, but I don't have an exact number. In both cases, I just keep coming back and starting over with a fresh set of mods.
I passed 520 hours last night in Stardew Valley
Somehwere between 3000-4000 hours, 23 years of playing persistent worlds on Neverwinter Nights.
Most of that occurred between 2002-2010. It was legit a gaming addiction.
Slay The Spire: 850 hours. I feel like I'll never get bored at a retirement home because I'll just keep playing Slay The Spire. It'll be my mahjong equivalent.
Almost 1000 hours in Rocksmith 2014. Yes, I still suck.
World of Warcraft since 2004. Why measure in hours when you can measure in years?
Same same. It's something disgusting too like 4+ years.
Other than that one probably football manager at like 2k hours.
13,027 hours and counting - Final Fantasy XI
That is impressive.
Can you go into details on when you started, how often you play, etc. Really interested in this.
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3,000 - Oblivion
That's spread over 40 or so characters, and dating all the way back to 2006.
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5 figures and counting on Factorio. Do not recommend, gets somewhat repetitive after a while.
I'm over 5,500 hours of efficiency workings.
Mods. Mods are all it is.
Bob Angels is such an amazing modpack to do (expect 120 hours roughly for a full run).
Seablock is the next step up (300 hours to finish).
Then space exploration. That just goes hard for 500 hours easy.
I've taken a big break since a SE finish so that I have that 'omg this game is amazing" when the DLC comes out.
Ignoring idle games and MMO's for obvious reasons, ~2k hours in each Factorio and Rimworld, followed by 1k in KSP.
I'd rather not say exactly how many hours, but it's Factorio so... a lot.
According to my Steam account, it's Satisfactory with 823.4 hours played. Runner up: Team Fortress 2 with 547.5 hours.
I'm not sure that count is accurate for games I've owned a long time like the Half Life series; I KNOW I have more than Steam's claimed 32 hours in Half Life 2, and I absolutely have more time than the 12.1 hours logged in Half Life 1.
I'm kinda curious about certain SNES games like A Link to the Past, which I've played over and over since they were new. I bet I have a thousand hours in at least one SNES game.
It is a toss up between Starcraft Brood War and Minecraft. I stopped counting at 30,000 starcraft games and Ive played minecraft since java classic
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I've got 2222.1 (and counting) hours into Oxygen Not Included. Though it spends a fair a bit of time running in the background.
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Duke Nukem 3D.
Started installing and playing friday afternoon around 4pm, get to the end of the game around 6am next saturday.
14 hours in a row. It was 30 years ago, never again.
14,388.7 hours in Cookie Clicker. 100% achievements in just under two years.
I have put more hours into Planetside 2 than is even reasonable for how fucking bad I still am at that game.
One time as a kid I played a game of Monopoly with my Uncle and cousins that took like 5 hours. I never played Monopoly with them ever again. Don't play Monopoly against a banker, the game quickly becomes way too serious
World of Warcraft no doubt. About 2500 hours per year and been active for 12-ish years.
War thunder is probably second at about 3.5k hours.
I have no way of estimating Diablo 2 or Starcraft 2 or Baldurs gate 2.
Just to put the in context, you would need to play every single day for roughly 6.8 hours in order to rack up 2500 hours in a year.
To further contextualize, in the U.S. a full time job, that is a job wherein one works a combination of days each week (typically 5 8-hour days but sometimes 4 10-hour days) is around 40 hours each week, or 2080 hours a year.
The typical worker also takes vacation, sick days, etc equaling between 1-3 weeks each year. Meaning they may not even work an actual 2000 hours each year due to time off.
So you are putting in more time to WoW each year than the typical full time worker is to their job.
And you still have time for other games.
I do one game at a time, but about 2500 hours per year.
I've got 5 weeks of paid vacation and 40 hours work week.
I don't like traveling, I don't want kids, I don't like going out on weekends, I don't watch TV or series on Netflix. Minor optimization on adult chores such as meal prep and a 10 minute commute leaves a lot of time for whatever I want.
2500 hours per year
That is... more than a full-time job
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Probably chess. I have tens of thousands of games on all the separate accounts I use online, not counting over the board games- both casual and tournament. Also game analysis, reading chess books, and watching chess videos.
I have no way of estimating but I'm certain we're in the thousands of hours region.
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Not as impressive as the other ones but 170h in Project Zomboid. Waiting for build 42 to play again.
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3.7 years of WoW... but I'm sure I had more time playing the Quake/halflife games/mods.
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This is over the course of 9 years. I haven't played in a couple months now, (the aug 22 last played was just me entering my house so it doesn't get demolished) but the itch will come back. It always does.
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2,184 hours in Factorio, and possibly more in Minecraft, I just don't have a record.
2100 Binding of Isaac Rebirth
I am not exaggerating when I say I have 10k+ hours into fallout new Vegas. I've got 600 hours since November alone.
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I had >5000 hours in WoW by 2007, haven't checked since.
Elite Dangerous, 1,041 hours.
I played a lot during the lockdowns when they closed everything, even stuff like the ski resorts. It's how I met my SO, we are gonna celebrate our second anniversary soon.
I've moved on to other games, but sometimes I still gotta hop into elite and explore the stars and do some combat in VR. So much fun :)
It ignited my interest in space, seeing some of our wildest stars and the core of our galaxy.
497 hours in Satisfactory
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