one of my steam friends has a program that farms steam hours, just for the shock factor
Is there a game called “My girlfriend’s cock is bigger than mine”? I need that alongside with the program that farms steam hours.
Sooo Furry Hitler 2 is not as good as Furry Hitler 1?
The sex scenes have fewer fetishes
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
I have over 1,900 hrs on Deep Rock Galactic.
The key is persistence.
Rock and Stone! oT
尺ㄖ匚Ҝ 卂几ᗪ 丂ㄒㄖ几乇
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
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
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.
o7 pilot, keep those numbers up
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I got 800 hours across 3 years in a game. It was a huge time commitment. Loved every minute, until the dev team stopped outsourcing and lost their source code.
1200+ hours is a terrifying thought to current me. That’s years of concerted effort. Anyone capable of focusing on a game for so long has a screw loose.
I’m not really an avid gamer but I’ve been gaming since I was around 10 which is 22 years ago. I think most games I played somewhere around 300 hours, like Borderlands, Borderlands 2, The Pre-Sequel and 3, so that adds up to about 1200 hours. I finished quite a list of rpg’s over the years.
But, I bought Rocket League in 2016 or so and since you can just casually play a game or two in between other stuff I’ve got over 1500 hours in. I’m not even really that good at it. I think some 100 hours would be just sitting in main menu with friends or leaving it open while going to do something else. Sometimes, I could just listen to music while absent-mindedly driving my rocket car around the field in casual.
So what I’m saying is, time span is an important measure here. Steam should also include stats about how many hours a year people have put in on average, or per month. I think those thousands of hours for some might be put into better perspective.
1500 hours in. I’m not even really that good at it
I suck at some of the games I have a lot of time in. But that’s mostly because I learned to stop caring about how good I am, and just enjoyed them.
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?
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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Well they play for more than a year.
🤯
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.
I play 2-3 hours a day and sometimes 5 on the weekends. Easily get a few 1000 hours in a year and if I like a game ill play it for years
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.
Factorio enters chat.
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 since 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.
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.
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. In a year, that’s 6.8 hours a night, every night. Fuck me, that’s a JOB. Can’t understand how people rack up these numbers.
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.
That’s an insane amount of time per day. Are you a child or without a job? That’s 5.5 hours a day.
In 3 months ~64 day would be weekdays and ~26 days would be weekends.
So a likely scenario is 64*4+26*9.4
For me this kind of distribution is plausible during phases when I’m really into a specific game. I’m 31, single, full time employed (which means 42 hours per week, or 8.4 a day, here in Switzerland).
I have work today, I’m there now, and could still put in 6 hours if I felt like it or was deep enough in a game to do it.
Im almost 30, work just over 20 hours a week (weekends for the extra $10/hr). No kids no partner.
I have 3 games recorded over 1000 hours and Minecraft doesn’t record but would be 5000+ easily over the last decade.
I am rural so there’s not really anything else to do unless gardening is your kind of thing.
I am rural
This is a big factor. I think I doubled my time on the computer when I moved to an area with no true neighbors for miles.
5.5 hours a day is easy when you have a job if you don’t have anything else going on. I have much more time for games as an adult than I did when I was a kid.
Are you single?
I can only play 1-2 hours a day with a family. I could see that if I got home and just ate and gamed.
I’m single, and I eat while playing. The sad thing is that I’m not actually super interested in video games these days but I don’t have much else going on.
Just you watch videos and play on your phone as you game? Also do you only play one game? I do the same thing and it makes me not care about anything?
So I’m not the guy you are replying to, but I work from home. My kid is still young with an 830pm bedtime. 2 hours is easy, 4 hours is possible, 6 hours is too much.
I really only have to drive my kid to school and I usually have groceries delivered, but that’s a luxury I can afford. Splitting the time up with his mother frees up a bunch of extra time (we’re separated). A good chunk of time playing comes from playing something with him too. Pokemon, Minecraft, Lego video games. Sometimes he asks me to play one of the games I’ll tell him a story about, which I’ll oblige if it won’t scare him (for instance Elden Ring and Path of Exile are out, but monster hunter and Helldivers are ok [the Helldivers one I don’t get, you’d think for a kid who thinks aliens and skeletons are terrifying he wouldn’t enjoy that one as much as he does. That one I also didn’t intend to show him, he woke up one night and I was playing it and he thought it was hilarious 🤷♂️]).
I don’t really want to do other things. I’ve been told that it’s a coping mechanism because I was in that unhealthy relationship for 15 years. My personal view is that it’s a coping mechanism of how boring reality is.
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.
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.
The level and art design of the latest expansion is amazing, but nothing compares to classic gameplay. Retail is boring IMO.
Activision agrees and started hosting the classic servers themselves.
I said Warcraft 3, not WoW.
I’m playing Team Fortress 2 since 2010 and have around 2500 hours. So it’s not hard to reach high numbers if the game is old enough, which some are.
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.
There’s an MMO I have played off and on for almost 2 decades now. I can’t even imagine how many hours I’ve accumulated, especially back when I was a kid with nothing to do but school.
Life is so much busier and way more things demanding my time as a grown-up, and I simply cannot sit in a chair like that for any long stretch of time, I get antsy.
You just got to find the right game that will ruin your life.
I have around 1500 in KSP but tbf, most of that is AFK where I’ve had to do long manouvre burns in the multiples of hours so I’ve just set it and walked away lol.
And here I am struggling to get into orbit with my duct tape and boosters. Hour long burns seem insane.
