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
In college I would study between rounds of civ and binding of isaac. These days I’ll use a rougelike or stardew or something as something to do while listening to an audiobook when the weather isn’t fit for biking
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.
I would hate that so much that I would get Dark Souls removed from my account.
Yeah, my friend has this same issue. She has been playing The Sims 4 for like seven months now.
I have like 3700 hours in factorio, but I also leave it running when I’m not around… like an idle game
The only games I have over 1000 hours in are games that I’ve owned for more than 10 years and are online. TF2, Counter-Strike, Arma 2 and 3, Rocket League…
I love Souls games and have played the shit out of every single one; but they average 300-500 hours of total playtime.
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.
My friend just shared this with me:
Omg, I’ll share this with them and say they have rookie numbers haha
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
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.
How ?
I ask myself the same thing! I wish I had a singular game I loved as much as they love FF14
16009 hours for those playing at home.
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. 😔
Ha true enough, though I did have Max Cape before the first time I quit, which was before Archaeology. I went back for a little to try that but never got it to 120. Necromancy I never tried.
Love rs3,I should play my account again
Ironman btw
My steam account has just over 4000 hours logged in Dota 2, plus there’s about 1000 hours sitting on another dead account somewhere.
I played the game for like 7 years, pretty much daily for anywhere between 30 minutes to… Well I did a 24 hour stream once when I finally decided to play ranked for a while. I think about that stream whenever I consider going back to the game, but the audience has changed so much and language barriers are so difficult in games like that
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.
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.
It’s me. I have numerous games like this. The answer? Alt-tab + multiple monitors + powerful PC. It’s easier for me to just switch to another application and switch back when I want to keep gaming than to close the game completely and open it again… Only sometimes it’s more than a day before I get back to playing again. And there’s how you end up with numerous games with thousands and thousands of hours on Steam.
More than a day?
So you don’t shut down your Pc when done? I only ask as I always turn it off.
Only time my pc shutdowns is for kernel updates or it crashes.
Makes me wonder whether turning it off regular and particularly when not in use if it would have more longevity.
I personally dont worry about because pcs usually get replaced after ~10 years anyway due to massive performance and efficiency increases.
Laptops would be the only exception if you rely alot on the battery.
Warframe is a hell of a drug.
It’s fine
Wow that Factorio time is a lot and I’m on my way there.
Cracktorio is a hell of a drug.
A typical working year is approximately 2,000 hours, just for context.
That is nuts.
Woo, means I can officially add Warframe to my work experience (2.7k)!
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
That amount of work would qualify you as a master tradesman in many fields.
A typical apprenticeship is 6-8k
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 😂).
