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Playtime Confessions!

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Yesterday I officially joined the 300 club in Civ IV.

This isn't counting about a dozen hours of vanilla Civ IV before jumping up to BtS, nor is it counting about a dozen hours of a particular mod that Steam wouldn't track properly.

Ahh, it feels good. I love statistics like this. I love them to the point that I have been known to buy games on Steam that I already own just so it can start tracking my playtime. (It’s like Gaben really knows how to reel us obsessive-compulsives geekwads in!)

A few other games I played a lot tracked your time as well. I was really close to 300 hours in FF Tactics Advance. I’m also relatively sure I was close to it in my original Pokemon Red file, before it was inadvertently deleted.

Of course, MMOs deserve to be in a tier all to themselves when it comes to playtime. If I recall correctly, before quitting, I’d clocked up about 220 days played in WoW across all of my characters.

That's well over 5000 hours!

I think over half of it was spent on my main, Tawyn the Night Elf Hunter. As time went on and Blizzard bumped experience rates and made questing and LFG more streamlined, and as I got more experienced at the game myself, I’d spend less time on an individual character. For example, I think my resto druid had a mere 12 days or something similarly miniscule for her /played, despite the fact that I got her to (then) endgame and was raiding with her for a little while.

So yeah, I doubt any other single game I’ve ever played could come close to what I dumped into WoW. Like I said, MMOs deserve their own tier in this “game”.

And I still wish I could see an accurate playtime counter for everything I’ve ever played. That would be fascinating.

Okay, lay it on me. What are your most played games, gentle readers?

Written by: Pike on August 5, 2011.

4 thoughts on “Playtime Confessions!”

  1. I certainly don’t come close in WoW, but the amount of time I have sunk into various strategy games like Civ IV (and II and III), Transport Tycoon, Theme Park, Hearts of Iron 2, SMAC, and so on, is quite a lot.

    I regret nothing but that I have so little time to spend playing games!

  2. Around 1200 hours on TF2 and 300 on Counter strike. I think i spent around 15 days on one wow character and several others which i can’t be bothered finding out.

  4. I have at least 270 days clocked in WoW. And this is just counting my four lvl 70+ characters.

    Also, I spent around 100 hours each on a few RPGs like FF7, P3P, and Mass Effect. (Oh, and I did buy ME1/2 on Steam just to let it track my play time, ha!)

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