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What is your record for number of hours on a single game?

And what game?

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Are we counting WoW? Because that's measured in years.
- Your comment made me curious enough to go check my /played, and I regret my decision. Over 500 days of play time.
  
  This is why I never started
- oh boy... yeah WoW was around 3 hours a day x 5 days a week for about 4 years. Some days were more, some days were less, and I took a few breaks here and there. That comes out to around 100 days.
  
  I think that's the low end for wow players as well. I played it excessively for like a whole year (wake up, play, go to bed with very few obligations during that time), I have no idea how much time I spent in that game overall, because I've had a few periods like that in my life (though never that crazy)

Roughly 30 000 hours in WoW. I've been playing it since 2005 - mostly active, only a couple of 1-6 month breaks.
Quick approximation - let's just ignore the exact dates:
18 years * 365 = 6570 days
30000 hours / 6570 days = ~4.57 hours/day
During the last 18 years, I've played an average of 4h 34min of WoW every day.
In other words: if I sleep 8 hours a day, during the last 18 years, I've spent about 28% of my waking hours playing WoW.
While I'm at it: I'm 34 years old. I have spent roughly 10% of my life playing WoW.
jfc lmao
Other MMOs: Guild Wars 1 & 2, FFXIV, are all between 1000-1500 hours each.
Outside of MMOs, the #1 is probably Trackmania (2020) at ~600 hours.
- I think you can use /played in the console it will tell you how much that character has been played. I did it once it came out in years scale too
  
  Yup, that's what I used to get the number - along with an addon that saves all the data from different characters and sums up the played time of all of them. Last time I checked it showed over 1200 days (=28 800 hours) for me - but it's been a while since I checked the total, and it doesn't include characters in Classic (or deleted characters). So I just rounded it to 30k hours, close enough.
  My most played character is my shaman, with 450 days (_{11k hours) played - it was my main character from TBC to WoD (from 2007 to early 2015). Current main is Druid with 240 days (}6k hours). So these two characters alone are more than half of my total played time. :D
- How much of that time was actually spent playing? A huge percentage of my /played is standing around either AFK or using the game as a chat client
  
  Vast majority of it is active playing - I've thought about this earlier too, and I really rarely just afk or stand around while in game. Even if I'm just waiting for eg. raid to start, I usually just go do some gathering, pet battles, dailies, something.

Over 12,000 hours so far on RimWorld. I've had the game for just over 6 years so that is roughly 5 1/2 hours a day. I think it takes 10000 hours to be considered an expert at something.
Hey mom look I finally made something of myself. :)
- About 3,000 hours of Rimworld for me, easily my most played game.
  I started off by pirating the game so I don't know the exact count, but the game was so incredible I've purchased it 4 times now.
- After so many hours how is to start a new town? Going through the same motions again, more or less. Or do you pick a totally different setup each time to keep it fresh, but by now you surely have done most starts a few times.
  
  I try different scenarios that players create or create my own. Sometimes I try to limit myself by not doing research or disabling certain options.
  And honestly the mods make the game completely different so I'll try various types of mods and just play with the new or changed features.
- I have similar. With mods its hard to put down.

Minecraft. Probably over 15,000 hours playing servers modpacks, developing mods. It's been 13 years now!?!
- I wish I had my Minecraft hours. I've been playing since Beta on PC across many PCs. I bought it on Xbox 360, separately for Xbox One, and Android. I think I would compete with some of the WOW players here tbh..

3,545 hrs in Rimworld. Minecraft is probably up there too, but I don't have an exact number. In both cases, I just keep coming back and starting over with a fresh set of mods.

I passed 520 hours last night in Stardew Valley
- That's a long night there!
  
  It felt like almost a month!

Somehwere between 3000-4000 hours, 23 years of playing persistent worlds on Neverwinter Nights.
Most of that occurred between 2002-2010. It was legit a gaming addiction.

Slay The Spire: 850 hours. I feel like I'll never get bored at a retirement home because I'll just keep playing Slay The Spire. It'll be my mahjong equivalent.

Almost 1000 hours in Rocksmith 2014. Yes, I still suck.

3,000 - Oblivion
That's spread over 40 or so characters, and dating all the way back to 2006.
- Oblivion is my most played as well. I "only" had a little over a thousand... Then my Xbox hard drive died.

World of Warcraft since 2004. Why measure in hours when you can measure in years?
- Same same. It's something disgusting too like 4+ years.
  Other than that one probably football manager at like 2k hours.

13,027 hours and counting - Final Fantasy XI
- That is impressive.
  Can you go into details on when you started, how often you play, etc. Really interested in this.
  
  They started playing 18 months ago, paused and haven't had a chance to jump back in.
  
  Hi! I started back in 2006 and have played off and on over the years. I've had periods of time where I unsubbed and didn't play at all, and other times where it was my only game! I got back in to playing in 2020 during the pandemic lockdowns and I'm still logging in daily even now! No other game has captured me quite like FFXI.
- i started playing Final Fantasy with FFII on SNES. when they came out with III, i was a bit reluctant because of the obvious 2nd lie, but the game was so good, i played it more than II. after that, i couldn't take anymore lying, and completely disconnected from the series. now, theyre on XI‽ is Final Fantasy XI thee actual final fantasy, or are they still peddling their lies??
  
  TFW they find it about FF XVI.
  
  Bahahaa! Yes, the heroes have averted so many apocalyptic and reality-destroying situations that "final" is definitely misleading! Of course, if the heroes never set out on their journeys, then maybe the world doesn't get saved...
  Anyway FFXI is the first MMORPG Final Fantasy (FFXIV being the more recent one) and it's jam-packed with many different potential "final" fantasies! It's kept me busy since 2006!

5 figures and counting on Factorio. Do not recommend, gets somewhat repetitive after a while.
- I'm over 5,500 hours of efficiency workings.
  Mods. Mods are all it is.
  Bob Angels is such an amazing modpack to do (expect 120 hours roughly for a full run).
  Seablock is the next step up (300 hours to finish).
  Then space exploration. That just goes hard for 500 hours easy.
  I've taken a big break since a SE finish so that I have that 'omg this game is amazing" when the DLC comes out.

I'd rather not say exactly how many hours, but it's Factorio so... a lot.

Ignoring idle games and MMO's for obvious reasons, ~2k hours in each Factorio and Rimworld, followed by 1k in KSP.

I've got 2222.1 (and counting) hours into Oxygen Not Included. Though it spends a fair a bit of time running in the background.
- Go on...
  
  They are that's why it's and counting
  
  Things are going pretty well on all my colonies, I've almost got my 2nd nuclear rocket refueling station built. Good thing too, because I've got a broken pipe in my oxygen condenser so my petroleum rocket is grounded.

It is a toss up between Starcraft Brood War and Minecraft. I stopped counting at 30,000 starcraft games and Ive played minecraft since java classic
- Gotta feed the beast

World of Warcraft no doubt. About 2500 hours per year and been active for 12-ish years.
War thunder is probably second at about 3.5k hours.
I have no way of estimating Diablo 2 or Starcraft 2 or Baldurs gate 2.
- Just to put the in context, you would need to play every single day for roughly 6.8 hours in order to rack up 2500 hours in a year.
  To further contextualize, in the U.S. a full time job, that is a job wherein one works a combination of days each week (typically 5 8-hour days but sometimes 4 10-hour days) is around 40 hours each week, or 2080 hours a year.
  The typical worker also takes vacation, sick days, etc equaling between 1-3 weeks each year. Meaning they may not even work an actual 2000 hours each year due to time off.
  So you are putting in more time to WoW each year than the typical full time worker is to their job.
  And you still have time for other games.
  
  I do one game at a time, but about 2500 hours per year.
  I've got 5 weeks of paid vacation and 40 hours work week.
  I don't like traveling, I don't want kids, I don't like going out on weekends, I don't watch TV or series on Netflix. Minor optimization on adult chores such as meal prep and a 10 minute commute leaves a lot of time for whatever I want.
- 2500 hours per year
  That is... more than a full-time job
- Jesus Christ dude. Do you have a job?
  
  Yes, average 40 hours per week for the last 10 years.

14,388.7 hours in Cookie Clicker. 100% achievements in just under two years.

I have put more hours into Planetside 2 than is even reasonable for how fucking bad I still am at that game.

According to my Steam account, it's Satisfactory with 823.4 hours played. Runner up: Team Fortress 2 with 547.5 hours.
I'm not sure that count is accurate for games I've owned a long time like the Half Life series; I KNOW I have more than Steam's claimed 32 hours in Half Life 2, and I absolutely have more time than the 12.1 hours logged in Half Life 1.
I'm kinda curious about certain SNES games like A Link to the Past, which I've played over and over since they were new. I bet I have a thousand hours in at least one SNES game.

Duke Nukem 3D.
Started installing and playing friday afternoon around 4pm, get to the end of the game around 6am next saturday.
14 hours in a row. It was 30 years ago, never again.

One time as a kid I played a game of Monopoly with my Uncle and cousins that took like 5 hours. I never played Monopoly with them ever again. Don't play Monopoly against a banker, the game quickly becomes way too serious

3.7 years of WoW... but I'm sure I had more time playing the Quake/halflife games/mods.

Probably chess. I have tens of thousands of games on all the separate accounts I use online, not counting over the board games- both casual and tournament. Also game analysis, reading chess books, and watching chess videos.
I have no way of estimating but I'm certain we're in the thousands of hours region.
- Guess it depends on which time format you are playing, but even ten thousand games of bullet adds up, and it always amazes me how much time increments can add to total duration too. What’s your rating after that many games?
  
  On 2+1 bullet I hover around 1900-2100 depending on the week. 10+0 I'm consistently 2100~
  When I started playing chess I was like 600. I quickly made it up to around ~1200 and then got stuck for a while. Then it was like 6 or 7 years or so playing chess on and off. Would go up 100 or 200 points and then plateau for 6 months.
  Also yeah most of the games are bullet. But I do have >1000 10+0 games

This is over the course of 9 years. I haven't played in a couple months now, (the aug 22 last played was just me entering my house so it doesn't get demolished) but the itch will come back. It always does.
- Yeah I've got about 6k hours in FFXIV as well

2100 Binding of Isaac Rebirth

Arma 3, 1,234 hours according to Steam.
- This, but 4k hours. Simultaneously the best and worst game I've ever played.
- DayZ mod?
  
  I messed with that a bit in the early days but it was so janky. Chernarus is my favorite map though.
  I played the campaigns co-op, a lot of co-op scenarios, and also a lot of scenarios like Pilgrimage, Antistasi, and all the randomized ones like DUWS.
  Cart racing, Star Wars mods, WW2 mods, the mods really made A3 amazing.

Not as impressive as the other ones but 170h in Project Zomboid. Waiting for build 42 to play again.
- There's no release date announced for 42 yet, right? I'm just so hyped to play it again when 42 is released.

2,184 hours in Factorio, and possibly more in Minecraft, I just don't have a record.

497 hours in Satisfactory

I had >5000 hours in WoW by 2007, haven't checked since.

Car Mechanic Simulator 2021
- Truly, awesome!

I'm not sure how many hours, but definitely Dark Age of Camelot
- Hoo boy, a college roommate of mine got so hooked on that one that he became effectively nocturnal. To his credit, he was courteous enough to put his bedsheets down over the foot of his bed so the glare from his monitor didn't bother me while I was sleeping. I googled his name a while back and apparently he got his shit together, but that year was very worrying.
  
  It kept out of bars and fights while I was in the Army... Except for that one time a guy wanted to fight me for not going to a bar with him because I was playing DAoC lol

After xfire started supporting java games and before it ceased to exist, I clocked in some 2000 hours into Minecraft. I suppose 4000 hours into it isn't an unreasonable estimate.

1100 fallout 4. Just edging out Factorio with 1000 hours.
- man I really tried to get into factorio, just wasn't for me.
  i should try it again.

Elite Dangerous, 1,041 hours.
I played a lot during the lockdowns when they closed everything, even stuff like the ski resorts. It's how I met my SO, we are gonna celebrate our second anniversary soon.
I've moved on to other games, but sometimes I still gotta hop into elite and explore the stars and do some combat in VR. So much fun :)
It ignited my interest in space, seeing some of our wildest stars and the core of our galaxy.

Based on Steam numbers I have ~2200+ hours on EU IV
- I'm at 1600+ so I'm still a noob.
  
  Dude I feel you. At least you made it past the tutorial (1000 hours)
  I still have only managed to form Rome once in this whole time, and have yet to do a world conquest

I am not exaggerating when I say I have 10k+ hours into fallout new Vegas. I've got 600 hours since November alone.
- How tho, are mods that much content or are you some kind of speed runner
  
  The exact opposite of a speed runner, he hasn't even finished the game yet

5,423 in elder scrolls online... In 2 years.
I'm pretty sure I played up a lot more.

Guild Wars. When i was younger it was my life, played almost 18 hours everyday for years. Then less when the game become outdated in 2012 with Guild Wars 2 drop. Played second game too but didn't last more that two years. Probably in 12 years I have 25.000 hours totally from both games. Now I'm playing something else but with so much less enthusiasm, and actually I am about to drop any game to looking forward to the real life.

Over 200 hours on Death Stranding. During lockdown it was like therapy. Not into MMOs. Possibly more on other games but that is the one that surprised me most when I saw how long it took to platinum it. And then game+ing it too.

I have like 10000 hours into Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 i guess between 7000 and 8000.
Also have lots of hours into counter strike, don't know how much but it's also a lot.

1000+ hours, Port Royal 2, over the last 6+ years. I just love expanding my trade empire.

I remember being amazed when I hit 100 hours in Final Fantasy VII, thinking that a game could never match it. Then I put 12,000 hours into World of Warcraft over about 12 years, so I guess I lacked imagination. I don't think in the rest of my life I will ever be able to beat that with a single game.

I've got a little over 1,350 hours in Fallout 4, probably that many across Fallout 3 + NV, and gawd knows how many in Minecraft. Nothing record breaking.

4 figures:
Skyrim. I don't regret it. It was like escaping into another world and with mods is endlessly varied. Some of the mods were genuinely moving and stuff like The Forgotten City or Enderal are food for the soul.
Fallout 4. Don't regret that either. A much needed escape and with mods it's endlessly varied. Also enjoyable building settlements.
New Vegas: same as skyrim.
Star Trek Online MMO: regret it. It wasn't fun after the first hundred hours, it was like feeding an addiction at a very low point in my life. I returned after many years, and had much the same experience. Doubly sad because Trek has given me so much joy over the years.

Hearthstone for me. I don't know the hours, but I've been playing since it launched, and I'm close to having 1000 ranked wins on all classes (Death Knight still needs a lot) and I'm not even that good, so I've lost even more.
Add in messing around with Battlegrounds, Tavern Brawls, and ugh, Mercenaries on top of that.
I can't even imagine how many hours that was.

On the new PS5 firmware beta, it lists my most played games.
Rocket League is at the top with 1,027 hours. 😬 Though I haven't played it for a couple of years now.
- Also Rocket League, 1,267.3 hours per STEAM. I think I can now hit the ball sometimes. Although, like you, have not played for a while.
  
  I used to be decent at it, then the eSports pros who could fly around everywhere turned up and suddenly I wasn't as good anymore. 😂

2,732 hours in Rust. I'm not proud of it
- Jesus that's a lot of suffering the worst people in the known universe
  
  You're not wrong

720 hours in Battlefield 2042, I know I'm not proud of this either.

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