• macisr@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    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.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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      3 months ago

      Also all day while in doing chores and stuffed. That way I can jump in and out faster as I have time between tasks.

  • Valmond@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Leaving *Commandos" on pause when I don’t play racks up hours it seems 🤷🏼‍♀️

  • TheOakTree@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • CptEnder@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      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

  • shneancy@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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!

    • crapwittyname@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      I too use Skyrim for dysphoria therapy! Although my dysphoria is less intense and just linked to… gestures broadly

    • Khrux@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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.

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        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.

  • DrownedRats@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • NostraDavid@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    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 😂