By leaving the game open when they go to sleep. Come on, anon, you know this.
Leaving a game running in the backvround while doing other things still adds up
one of my steam friends has a program that farms steam hours, just for the shock factor
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
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
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 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
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.
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 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.
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.
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'm sorry but I want to take a slight tangent to show just how high my power level is when it comes to this shit.
I was interested in tracking my game time on my games in years well before Steam was a thing. We had a family computer and a printer.
Some are expecting an excel spreadsheet, which was absolutely possible, and I'll come back to that, but no. I was maybe 8 years old and my solution was to print off an entire page of numbers, cut each of them out individually, then every time I played a game, I'd place the next number inside the CD case.
Naïve me thought printing up to 20 would be enough, but once I went over that, I simply kept the 20 in the case and added another number inside.
Years later - in my teens in the mid-00's - I was obsessed with Pro Evolution Soccer. This is where the excel spreadsheet came in. I logged every single game, the result, the date I played the game, colour coded the results red/yellow/green to show loss/draw/win respectively, won trophies, and a bunch of other stats.
I didn't move on to Steam properly until the start of the 2010s. Since then my biggest game is 2016's Motorsport Manager, which has logged in 1720 hours, followed by Civ V which has 1122 hours since I started playing in 2017.
My current time sink is Football Manager. I have played over 500 hours in little over a year. Anyone who has played FM knows those are rookie numbers.
I quit League some half a year ago after 10 years of playing. I can see now how impossible it seems to play that consistently when you just consume different games rather than having a single title.
It's a completely different experience.
As a side note, what's up with all the people saying "I played a game", just say what game it is, we are all nerds in here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Some games are more replayable than others. My high-playtime games tend to be roguelikes, played over multiple years
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
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
I have like 3700 hours in factorio, but I also leave it running when I’m not around… like an idle game
Rust can take while to load. I swear a few hundred of those hours were AFK.
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.
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
Leaving *Commandos" on pause when I don't play racks up hours it seems 🤷🏼♀️
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.
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 😂
You just got to find the right game that will ruin your life.
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