• De_Narm@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    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.

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      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.

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        6 days ago

        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.

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      8 days ago

      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.

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      7 days ago

      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.

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      7 days ago

      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.