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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are we counting WoW? Because that's measured in years.

[–] alianne@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] deeroh@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] geno@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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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[–] Kylah@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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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[–] cpw@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Minecraft. Probably over 15,000 hours playing servers modpacks, developing mods. It's been 13 years now!?!

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[–] supportmage@artemis.camp 15 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I passed 520 hours last night in Stardew Valley

[–] jastyty@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a long night there!

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] hdnsmbt@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

Almost 1000 hours in Rocksmith 2014. Yes, I still suck.

[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Rottcodd@lemmy.ninja 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

3,000 - Oblivion

That's spread over 40 or so characters, and dating all the way back to 2006.

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[–] harissa@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

13,027 hours and counting - Final Fantasy XI

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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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[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

World of Warcraft since 2004. Why measure in hours when you can measure in years?

[–] shapis@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same same. It's something disgusting too like 4+ years.

Other than that one probably football manager at like 2k hours.

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Ignoring idle games and MMO's for obvious reasons, ~2k hours in each Factorio and Rimworld, followed by 1k in KSP.

[–] wahming@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

5 figures and counting on Factorio. Do not recommend, gets somewhat repetitive after a while.

[–] 50MYT@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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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[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] fr_mg@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] westingham@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

14,388.7 hours in Cookie Clicker. 100% achievements in just under two years.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Xariphon@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I have put more hours into Planetside 2 than is even reasonable for how fucking bad I still am at that game.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Iusedtobeanadventurer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] fatzgebum@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

2500 hours per year

That is... more than a full-time job

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[–] kava@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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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[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

2,184 hours in Factorio, and possibly more in Minecraft, I just don't have a record.

[–] jaanus20@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not as impressive as the other ones but 170h in Project Zomboid. Waiting for build 42 to play again.

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[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Arma 3, 1,234 hours according to Steam.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

3.7 years of WoW... but I'm sure I had more time playing the Quake/halflife games/mods.

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[–] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

2100 Binding of Isaac Rebirth

[–] TableCoffee@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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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[–] ggleblanc@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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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[–] boeman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

5,423 in elder scrolls online... In 2 years.

I'm pretty sure I played up a lot more.

[–] Montagge@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not sure how many hours, but definitely Dark Age of Camelot

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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] darganon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I had >5000 hours in WoW by 2007, haven't checked since.

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