And what game?
Are we counting WoW? Because that’s measured in years.
Your comment made me curious enough to go check my /played, and I regret my decision. Over 500 days of play time.
This is why I never started
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.
I think you can use /played in the console it will tell you how much that character has been played. I did it once it came out in years scale too
Yup, that’s what I used to get the number - along with an addon that saves all the data from different characters and sums up the played time of all of them. Last time I checked it showed over 1200 days (=28 800 hours) for me - but it’s been a while since I checked the total, and it doesn’t include characters in Classic (or deleted characters). So I just rounded it to 30k hours, close enough.
My most played character is my shaman, with 450 days (~11k hours) played - it was my main character from TBC to WoD (from 2007 to early 2015). Current main is Druid with 240 days (~6k hours). So these two characters alone are more than half of my total played time. :D
How much of that time was actually spent playing? A huge percentage of my /played is standing around either AFK or using the game as a chat client
Vast majority of it is active playing - I’ve thought about this earlier too, and I really rarely just afk or stand around while in game. Even if I’m just waiting for eg. raid to start, I usually just go do some gathering, pet battles, dailies, something.
Ah, I forgot about raiding
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. :)
About 3,000 hours of Rimworld for me, easily my most played game.
I started off by pirating the game so I don’t know the exact count, but the game was so incredible I’ve purchased it 4 times now.
I have similar. With mods its hard to put down.
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.
I’d rather not say exactly how many hours, but it’s Factorio so… a lot.
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.
They started playing 18 months ago, paused and haven’t had a chance to jump back in.
Hi! I started back in 2006 and have played off and on over the years. I’ve had periods of time where I unsubbed and didn’t play at all, and other times where it was my only game! I got back in to playing in 2020 during the pandemic lockdowns and I’m still logging in daily even now! No other game has captured me quite like FFXI.
i started playing Final Fantasy with FFII on SNES. when they came out with III, i was a bit reluctant because of the obvious 2nd lie, but the game was so good, i played it more than II. after that, i couldn’t take anymore lying, and completely disconnected from the series. now, theyre on XI‽ is Final Fantasy XI thee actual final fantasy, or are they still peddling their lies??
TFW they find it about FF XVI.
Bahahaa! Yes, the heroes have averted so many apocalyptic and reality-destroying situations that “final” is definitely misleading! Of course, if the heroes never set out on their journeys, then maybe the world doesn’t get saved…
Anyway FFXI is the first MMORPG Final Fantasy (FFXIV being the more recent one) and it’s jam-packed with many different potential “final” fantasies! It’s kept me busy since 2006!
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.
Jesus Christ dude. Do you have a job?
Yes, average 40 hours per week for the last 10 years.
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.
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
Gotta feed the beast
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.
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.
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.
Arma 3, 1,234 hours according to Steam.
DayZ mod?
I messed with that a bit in the early days but it was so janky. Chernarus is my favorite map though.
I played the campaigns co-op, a lot of co-op scenarios, and also a lot of scenarios like Pilgrimage, Antistasi, and all the randomized ones like DUWS.
Cart racing, Star Wars mods, WW2 mods, the mods really made A3 amazing.
How do you get into the game modes? I played all the campaign and there’s nothing left
You can play Scenarios (missions) by following these directions: https://arma3.com/workshop101
Some scenarios require mods. I would first either pick scenarios that don’t need mods or need only a few. Mods are subscribed to the same way but you enable them in the Arma 3 launcher, and they will take effect in all scenarios when you have them enabled.
The quality of scenarios varies widely, but the popular ones are usually pretty good.
Ignoring idle games and MMO’s for obvious reasons, ~2k hours in each Factorio and Rimworld, followed by 1k in KSP.
2,184 hours in Factorio, and possibly more in Minecraft, I just don’t have a record.
