A typical working year is approximately 2,000 hours, just for context.
That is nuts.
I only have 16,000 hours on record for Eve online. it’s ok I guess, not sure I’d recommend it.
I only have 16,000 hours on record for Eve online. it’s ok I guess, not sure I’d recommend it.
I leveled up my Excel skill because of EVE, so that could be a legit resume entry unoe. (Not because the Overview is a giant table, I mean, I made an actual spreadsheet for Jita trading 😂).
I know WoW guild leaders that turned that experience into a resume point. “Managed a large group of disconnected people to accomplish group tasks”
If they can pull that off then you can pull this one.
That amount of work would qualify you as a master tradesman in many fields.
A typical apprenticeship is 6-8k
o7 pilot, keep those numbers up
Woo, means I can officially add Warframe to my work experience (2.7k)!
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.
I strongly believe that video games are underappreciated in just how much they help us develop certain skills.
I’m talking long-term planning, resource distribution, tactics, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, skillset comprehension and task allocation based on it, language skills, interpersonal skills (ironically), and can even serve as a font of self-knowledge if one dives deep enough!
Yea, no. It surely has some positive, just like pretty much anything. But if you look at it as something you do instead of something else, you start accumulating a lot of negatives.
There’s no way any fine motor skill is somehow more developed than, say, playing almost any sport, that involves more than just two hands, and a similar thing can be said as far as teamwork and resilence goes.
On the fantasy side you have to compete with reading or, more broadly, studying.
It probably wins against binge watching b-rated tv series or idlessly watching TV, but if you get the wrong tytle you won’t bring home that much value. (Say you are stuck playing COD on a loop).
I think an healthy varied diet of activities and stimuli is still the way for getting the best out of life.
I respect your opinion, and the fact that it differs from mine:))
I think it very much depends on the game. Some reflex-based games most certainly compete, same with a lot of team-based games and story-focused ones. Some even excel at this, it all depends on the intention behind them. I can personally say that having played a lot of strategy and management games has helped me to develop palpable planning and management skills, of which I’ve made ample use while I held a Project Manager position, as an example.
My teenage years were spent in Warcraft III. I sucked at it, I’m terrible at multitasking.
It could very well be that you were already good at that and that translated both into enjoying strategy game and succeeding as a Project Manager.
Well, there ya’ go! I still suck at Warcraft III, and not for a lack of trying!:))
Maybe you do have a point about having predilections for certain skillsets, but I can say with certainty that I’ve never aced a game the first (dozens of) time I picked it up. But they helped me narrow down my thinking in terms of priorities, they helped me develop a “nose” for strengths and shortcomings in someone’s skillset, they basically taught me what the practical side of management entails.
Same with long-form sim games, those taught me how to plan for the long-term, how to form contingencies, how to deal with the unforeseen, etc.
A study once showed that pro gamers did actually have better reaction times than professional athletes of other types.
As far as the other stuff in their list, though, games are too shallow to have any weight towards experiencing the real life equivalent of their themes.
Leaving a game running in the backvround while doing other things still adds up
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
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!
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.
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.
I too use Skyrim for dysphoria therapy! Although my dysphoria is less intense and just linked to… gestures broadly
Yeah, precisely this
Warframe is a hell of a drug.
It’s occasionally fun to hop into for a bit but I didn’t really like what they did with the last update. Mainly cause I hate the drifter…
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.
At least half of my Elite Dangerous hours were slept through.
At least half of my Elite Dangerous hours were slept through.
What space trucking does to a mf
I leave the game running at night while I sleep
Also all day while in doing chores and stuffed. That way I can jump in and out faster as I have time between tasks.
why not put your computer to sleep?
Leaving *Commandos" on pause when I don’t play racks up hours it seems 🤷🏼♀️
Rust can take while to load. I swear a few hundred of those hours were AFK.
How many hours yearly do people work?
Assume 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year. That makes 2000 hours a year. So yeah, how do people pull through with this?
Well they play for more than a year.
🤯
1000-2000 hours in several games. It’s a mix of several reasons:
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Some games are more replayable than others. My high-playtime games tend to be roguelikes, played over multiple years
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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
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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. Just once and you’re looking at ~20 hours added to your playtime. Rinse and repeat for multiple nights
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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.
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.
May I suggest Valkyria Chronicles?
not huge on turn based combat, but if the sandbox elements are good i could definitely thoroughly enjoy it. I’ll have to look at it sometime.
+1, highly recommended. The game usually goes on sale, worth a try at least.
one of my steam friends has a program that farms steam hours, just for the shock factor
The fact that he does this is the shock factor.
On the other hand I purge friends from my list regularly because I feel too shy
Like aw no they are gonna perceive me
this is considered strange behavior in my house
Sooo Furry Hitler 2 is not as good as Furry Hitler 1?
The sex scenes have fewer fetishes
Is there a game called “My girlfriend’s cock is bigger than mine”? I need that alongside with the program that farms steam hours.
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.
Me and satisfactory
My top two are Kerbal Space Program, at 2007 hours, and Satisfactory at 1,787 hours. And yeah, Satisfactory has its time exaggerated, as often you just got to let the factory run.
My play time on Kerbal Space Program 2?
17 minutes.
Forget getting to the moon my team crashed against dat learning curve
My preferred mode of play is what I call “Iron Kerbal.” Career mode. No reloads. No respawning. No reverting flights. I can manage everything except an Eve landing and return without reloads. Or, late game, I can manage an Eve landing and recovery if I have enough resources to just keep throwing crews at the planet.
Yeah the amount of hours I’ve clocked because of 1 hour of play, pause to do task, get busy and then go to bed, next day after dinner sit down to game and unpause. Bang 20 hours for 1 hour of play.
My friend just shared this with me:
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.
I appreciate the praise but it belongs to someone else
My most played is 250 hours for a game from 2008
Omg, I’ll share this with them and say they have rookie numbers haha
How ?
I ask myself the same thing! I wish I had a singular game I loved as much as they love FF14
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.
I guess some of it could be idling.
Pretty shitty that you immediately assume the worst of people, just for having a game they enjoy.
I’m not sure if that was a joke but I laughed.
“I bet that guy roleplays”
‘Why would you accuse him of such heinous behavior???’
lol
I personally wish I could roleplay and get into it, id seriously e playing more ff if I could
Yeah I’ve never actually RPed in FF and I think I’m approaching 2k hours now… Lots of existing, it’s a chatroom with more dumbness and random adventures mixed in
I did it in person when I was in like the third grade. A girl four years older than me in my neighborhood would sneak onto the elementary school playground and just take turns describing what our OCs were doing in the story while we swung on the swing set. I can’t remember any plotlines, only visualizations.
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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. 😔
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Love rs3,I should play my account again
Ironman btw
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.
Yeah, my friend has this same issue. She has been playing The Sims 4 for like seven months now.
You let your PC run through 2 weeks of vacation?
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.
I would hate that so much that I would get Dark Souls removed from my account.
I have over 1,900 hrs on Deep Rock Galactic.
The key is persistence.
Rock and Stone! oT
3500 here. Actually, the key is procrastination.
Rock and stone! It never gets old oT
Did I hear a Rock and Stone?! oT
If you don’t rock and stone, you ain’t comin’ home! oT
ROCK AND STONE, TO THE BONE
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