• vale@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    one of my steam friends has a program that farms steam hours, just for the shock factor

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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            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.

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    The only game I have that many hours in is because I left it open the whole day while I was working to take 5 minute breaks to play it.

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        FFXIV released in 2013. That’s ~12 years ago, which is about 105,120 hours of human existence.

        105,120/28,625 = 3.6723144104

        Meaning 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.

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          I appreciate the praise but it belongs to someone else

          My most played is 250 hours for a game from 2008

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      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.

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          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???’

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            lol

            I personally wish I could roleplay and get into it, id seriously e playing more ff if I could

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              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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              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

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    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.

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    I have something like 4k hours in Warframe.

    However, many of those hours come from having been a broke teenager and wanting to sell stuff for platinum (premium currency). Any time I was home, the game was running, and I had listings up on warframe.market. Most of those hours were just me doing homework and waiting for the chat message noise.

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    Got almost 5k hours between the two Ark games. About 4k of those are me playing by myself lmao

    Dunno what it is but I fucking love that game

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    It’s funny those 4 sets of numbers are basically my game time in ARMA II - ARMA R.

    I think I have ~14,000 hours in the whole franchise since like 2003.

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    Summary: 3k hours into World of Warcraft, Retail + WotLK private server.

    I’ve been playing vidya since… 1992? Classic Monochrome-green machine to play CalGames on.

    Ever since then, my limit for a game tended to be about 100 hours. I got 500 hours into Clicker Heroes, sure, but that game was made to be run in the background, so that doesn’t really count.

    It was not until I found World of Warcraft where I slowly pumped hour after hour into its massive world. I found it somewhere in 2021 - near the end of BFA. The Shadowlands beta was out, is when I started. OK sure, I played a few hours at a classmate’s house back in 2005, but I don’t feel that counts. Anyway, I found that there was a F2P version where I could freely try out most classes, quite a few races, and a ton of quests.

    I’ve walked everywhere (I even tracked where I’ve been in a massive image of the worldmap for about 500 hours-ish?), I walked because the mounts weren’t available for F2P yet, did all the quests I could, tried every race (which includes the starter zones), every class available (had an excel where I planned it all out).

    I ended up with 1000 hours. 500 for my main (Human Paladin - been wanting to play that since Warcraft 2), and another 500 spread out over my 40 or so alts. Ever since I’ve been coming back, because with each expansion release, a little bit more content becomes available, so I racked up another 500 hours there.

    In the meantime, WotLK Classic was going to release, but my income was still shit, so I found Warmane, a non-Blizzard server. You could level 7x as fast, which I did a few times, simply to learn the difference between “Classic” and “Retail”.

    Then it hit me. I want the Loremaster title. That meant doing a little over 3000 quests (about 99.99% of all quests in the game). But 7x made me level too fast. Luckily for me, there was a 0.5x XP option. So that’s how I grinded. I did every starter zone, every regular zone, every dungeon (I was typically the “overgeared” guy of the group, since the rest was rushing through). I had fun!

    That grind took me 1000 hours total. Plus another 500 for all the alts before that.

    I’m pretty sure I played over 3000 hours total.

    Oh, and I ended up getting my Loremaster title, as well as the World Explorer Tabbard (because I’ve been everywhere).

    My favourite places to run around was 100% the old world. Black Rock Depths just has an atmosphere that’s completely missing from TBC onwards :(

    I’ve been thinking of playing TurtleWoW, but not sure if I can survive the Vanilla client - the WotLK one was already pretty rough 😂

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      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…

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    I have like 3700 hours in factorio, but I also leave it running when I’m not around… like an idle game