Most hours played in a game!

[francisbaud]

LoL : about 5,000 hours
WarRock : about 2,500 hours
Rappelz : about 1,250 hours

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

As the title says, I thought this could be interesting to see and for people to compete hours against others.

Post your most played game in hours, or most played games with highest hours.

To keep comments from getting spammed, feel free to post a maximum of 1-3-5 Games, Feel free to update your comment whenever you want

My most played games hour,

1. Fallout 3 - Average 50,000 hours. - Own the CD version and Steam version.
2. ARMA: Armed Assault - ( average 40k) - CD version. "GOLD EDITION"
3. Arma 2 - Average again about (average 30k) - Owned it since release - includes steam and CD
4. Fallout 4 - ( 7.842)
5. Arma 3 - 632 hours.
6. Star Trek Online 537 hours.

^ lovely quote from a guy at the bottom!

So you spent between 5 and 6 year's total playing fallout3,. Get help dude, it's a recognised issue these days.

 

[Valantar]

So you spent between 5 and 6 year's total playing fallout3,. Get help dude, it's a recognised issue these days.

It's well established at this point that those playtimes are literally impossible - there isn't enough time since the launch of those games to play them that much combined.

 

[Pikolo]

There is great article about dota 2 longest games http://mmoauctions.bravesites.com/

 

[EntropyZ]

Around 28K+ hours in Skyrim now, counting every edition released so far from all the save, play data and crashed runtimes I kept from logs. This is not mentioning the time taken modding the things in the first place.

No other game has had this much attention since it's launch. The first 5 years with the game were painful because there were little to no engine function mitigations to prevent crashing and losing hours of progress. The other is just dying because I was new to Requiem, The Roleplaying Overhaul.

 

[MrGRiMv25]

I've got 1445 hours logged in Trials Fusion, another 14-1500 on Evo, that also doesn't count the offline hours since Steam doesn't seem to track those for whatever reason.



Some of us are totally not video game addicts.

 

[Erazor6000]

I have just over 500 hours of Dota 2, which is not much, but I probably made at least 1000 hours in Dota 1 as well. (1500+ in total)
Also, at least 500 hours in TES 3 - Morrowind and only 100 in Skyrim.
Thousands of hours in Heroes 3/4 and Call Of Duty Modern Warfare.

P.S
I almost forgot, I have about 600 hours in Fallout 76. Played it for 7-8 months.

 

[SanityGaming]

I have just over 500 hours of Dota 2, which is not much, but I probably made at least 1000 hours in Dota 1 as well. (1500+ in total)
Also, at least 500 hours in TES 3 - Morrowind and only 100 in Skyrim.
Thousands of hours in Heroes 3/4 and Call Of Duty Modern Warfare.

P.S
I almost forgot, I have about 600 hours in Fallout 76. Played it for 7-8 months.

Damn, people still post here, NICE, and I've never played dota, those games aren't my thing, but that seems like a lot, I play smite!, Dota's an extremely popular game!, Call of Duty is amazing, but I only play for zombies

I only have maybe a thousand hours in fallout 76, pre-ordered it.

So you spent between 5 and 6 year's total playing fallout3,. Get help dude, it's a recognised issue these days.

Well I stay home 24/7, I'm on suicide watch and spend most of my time at home, I can understand what you've said is a joke I assume so, but I spend my life playing games, that's why I made a quote on the OP... I've been on suicide protection and more since I was an extremely young child. Fallout 3 was the first-ever open-world game I ever played, and it introduced me to open-world games!, it's so fun and I love playing it! Though over the years I haven't played it, the last time I played was maybe a year or 2 ago!

 

[Frick]

Well I stay home 24/7, I'm on suicide watch and spend most of my time at home, I can understand what you've said is a joke I assume so, but I spend my life playing games, that's why I made a quote on the OP... I've been on suicide protection and more since I was an extremely young child. The fallout 1 was the first-ever open-world game I ever played, and it introduced me to open-world games!, it's so fun and I love playing it! Though over the years I haven't played it, the last time I played was maybe a year or 2 ago!

If true well done for not doing it. But a serious question in a silly thread: Why does staying home help? For the vast majority of mental problems you don't want to stay at home becuase that generally adds to the isolation and that is rarely a good thing. I say this as someone who was on medical/government assistence during his entire 20's due to recidivating clinical depression (think of it as a unipolar bipolar disorder) and anxiety.

If you don't want to get into it in public, messege. If you feel like it.

 

[Taz100420]

Eve: ~10 years (Quit playing)
Dual Universe: ~1,000 hours (New addiction)
Final Fantasy VII: ~800 hours (Don't ask, love the game and re-play still to this day)
7 Days to Die: 277 Hours
Empyrion: 241 hours

Moved into the Building/Survival type games and haven't looked back lol. Started with 7 Days to Die, moved to Empyrion and then discovered Dual Universe was in Alpha last year and life has been gone lol. I have 5 Beta keys for free play for the year to give out if anyone wants to try it

 

[milewski1015]

~1300 hours in Apex Legends
~830 hours across the Borderlands series
Unknown amount of time on Valorant but it's probably approaching second place if it hasn't already passed the BL series

 

[Ahhzz]

Eve: ~10 years (Quit playing)
Dual Universe: ~1,000 hours (New addiction)
Final Fantasy VII: ~800 hours (Don't ask, love the game and re-play still to this day)
7 Days to Die: 277 Hours
Empyrion: 241 hours

Moved into the Building/Survival type games and haven't looked back lol. Started with 7 Days to Die, moved to Empyrion and then discovered Dual Universe was in Alpha last year and life has been gone lol. I have 5 Beta keys for free play for the year to give out if anyone wants to try it

Hey, if you still have one, I'd like to give it a try

 

[SanityGaming]

Eve: ~10 years (Quit playing)
Dual Universe: ~1,000 hours (New addiction)
Final Fantasy VII: ~800 hours (Don't ask, love the game and re-play still to this day)
7 Days to Die: 277 Hours
Empyrion: 241 hours

Moved into the Building/Survival type games and haven't looked back lol. Started with 7 Days to Die, moved to Empyrion and then discovered Dual Universe was in Alpha last year and life has been gone lol. I have 5 Beta keys for free play for the year to give out if anyone wants to try it

Dual universe looks amazing "It is reported to combine elements of Eve Online and Star Citizen, as well as Minecraft, No Man's Sky, and Space Engineers "

I mean if you don't mind I'd take a beta key! that's amazing, and I love no mans sky and star citizen!

 

[John Naylor]

As the title says, I thought this could be interesting to see and for people to compete hours against others.

I don't think I'm understanding the rules here. BTW, are there categories for having a job, owning multiple businesses, significant other, kids ? <joking>

1st post has 3 games with 120,000 hours (50k, 40k, 30k) ... I think I'm reading this wrong ..... are these game time line hours of real life ? At 8 hours a day, that's 15,000 days or 41+ years of playing time

I have been playing The Saga of Ryzom since the 1st beta ... Had several toons the last main being created in may 2004. Recorded IRL played time in the game on that toon is 1070 days ~ 25,680 hours. Tho to be fair, that's not all play time. It includes time logged into the game while creating various 3rd party apps for the game as well is in game Web IG Apps.

 

[Valantar]

I don't think I'm understanding the rules here. BTW, are there categories for having a job, owning multiple businesses, significant other, kids ? <joking>

1st post has 3 games with 120,000 hours (50k, 40k, 30k) ... I think I'm reading this wrong ..... are these game time line hours of real life ? At 8 hours a day, that's 15,000 days or 41+ years of playing time

I have been playing The Saga of Ryzom since the 1st beta ... Had several toons the last main being created in may 2004. Recorded IRL played time in the game on that toon is 1070 days ~ 25,680 hours. Tho to be fair, that's not all play time. It includes time logged into the game while creating various 3rd party apps for the game as well is in game Web IG Apps.

There's already been a discussion of this, that post claims to have been playing for significantly more than 24 hours a day for the period after those games launched, so it's obviously not true unless that poster has invented a time machine.

 

[jboydgolfer]

i think Escape from tarkov must be my highest, but im not much of a gamer.

 

[The Foldinator]

Gta5 and Realflight9/AccuRC 2. no idea for how long tho..

 

[Space Lynx]

Final Fantasy XIV for me, between the betas, first launch, reborn, and expansions I'd say a good 400 hours playtime, but I am just guessing.

 

[JustAnEngineer]

5400 hours in Guild Wars 2 in the past 8 years.

 

[SanityGaming]

If true well done for not doing it. But a serious question in a silly thread: Why does staying home help? For the vast majority of mental problems you don't want to stay at home becuase that generally adds to the isolation and that is rarely a good thing. I say this as someone who was on medical/government assistence during his entire 20's due to recidivating clinical depression (think of it as a unipolar bipolar disorder) and anxiety.

If you don't want to get into it in public, messege. If you feel like it.

Thanks for the comment, only just going over posts now at 5;52am, after getting off war thunder, probably going to get back on, trying to unlock a bunch of tanks in the British tree!,
I don't mind messaging you in private. Nice to see someone who's not a troll and judging me or bettling my thread or derailing it, like some loser up and above who' doesn't know me and is just spamming and trolling, so at least now I can't see that losers comments because he's a LOSER, this is a simple thread, not a thread where someone can come along claim lies left and right and more and act like he knows everything!

 

[robot zombie]

On staying home due to mental disorders: it depends on the disorder. Sometimes it basically comes down to two options: stay home with relative comfort and freedom (as much as possible in one building,) OR prolonged inpatient care. There really isn't a better or worse there... if you're at that crossroads, it's basically a quality of life/cost/viability of care thing. It's a question of what is the best way to not worsen things or come under undue harm, while still having ways to be happy. But it does assume that due to the nature of the condition, it is unsafe or at least extremely detrimental to be out and about. It can definitely be like that. With typical anxiety and depression, interaction and just being a part of the world can count for a whole lot. But I'm assuming that in @SanityGaming 's case it's something much more debilitating and probably lifelong. Some disorders make it hard to leave the house, but not impossible. Others make it a serious risk to safety and well-being, due to uncontrollable thoughts and behaviors brought out. There comes a point where it only exacerbates things, sadly. Agoraphobia and lack of real-world interaction can be the least of a person's problems.

I may be wrong and don't want to pry, but I can't help but think it's something like that. There have been people in my family who've found themselves in similar situations indefinitely, due to nasty comorbidity with often permanent, difficult to treat disorders. It's a different world with completely different challenges.


I would say the game I've put the most time in is FO4, due to modding, testing, and just playing till I hate it. 1370 hours. Factor-in the time I've spent on mods alone and you can probably double that number. I think Skyrim is probably a close second, but steam doesn't count the time right, so it's hard to know. I'd wager I put in double the time in FF6. I have done and gotten literally everything in that game over a couple of years. I had notebooks with little maps drawn, character setups, party combos, micro/macro strategies, checklists, secrets, etc.. I meta'd the shit out of that game. But there's no way of knowing how much time I put in. At least a few thousand. I wouldn't just beat a boss fight. I would load back and try to beat it 3 or 4 other ways before I counted it and moved on. If I had to go back and get stuff, I would figure it out, plot the most efficient way, and line it up. Again, a lot of writing stuff down and going back over it. Something about the gear and battle mechanics of that game ticked all of my boxes and I just always wanted to be taking it further.

Nothing else comes close to what I have logged for FO4. But I really don't play a lot of games these days. I work too much and have other hobbies to attend to/blow cash on. Lately it's been a little more since I can't exactly go out like I used to. But usually I'd be spending more of my weekends seeing friends/family. Or if I'm really lucky landing a date. There's only so much time I can spend playing video games. I enjoy them as much as ever, just can't go as deep as I used to.

Ever since my mid 20's I've been trying really hard to keep a decent balance and not fall into ruts. That's about the time when I felt like things needed to change. I wasn't taking my ADHD seriously enough and it was keeping me in these cycles of touring the same old bad places. With ADHD it is easy to get VERY stuck on games, especially when I start to struggle with extra problems that come with the territory. So part of managing it for me is keeping every activity in its proper place and not letting it become comfort food that lets me excuse away skipping the veggies. They're like magic with this disorder. There have been times when gaming was the only thing that made me feel like my brain was working and I could truly be in the moment. Looong periods of time. It's hard to explain the feeling - you always want to be more 'where you are' and yet at the same time, it's as if nowhere you can go is far enough from wherever you are in your day. It's like my mind can't latch onto things. It starts to, only to deflate and fall right off. You are both under- and over- stimulated at the same time, pretty much perpetually in limbo. This can wind up being months of near-constant frustration and emotional torture.

With a lot of added stress you can keep up with the bare minimum needed for your life, but past that, there's just nothing. I lose the ability to connect with things that are important to me, I can't fully engage with any of it on a functional level... I just become increasingly more worn down and it gradually gets even harder. The tank is empty and too much gaming deprives it of chances to fill back up. ADHD-brain has a very small tank and a very powerful, but fast-burning engine. The immediacy of games with their constant streams of new information and feedback bypasses this - I can always play them with my full faculties. So it becomes like a little escape from consntantly feeling exhausted, spinning plates even when nothing is happening. Games can make certain problems with ADHD seem to go away, but it actually prolongs them if you let the games work on you too much. I can focus on games... have clarity and satisfaction I'm lacking, but the actual reason I lack those things comes down to my habits and vigilance. Too much gaming puts me in a haze where no amount of motivation can keep me from being useless to myself. And that's not a good place to be. Depression is a pretty common bonus round with mismanaged ADHD - that's something I know all too well.

I'm sure this can go for all people to some extent, but for me it's extra important because it becomes more than just a matter of losing will from too much elevated stimulation. I am an excruciatingly conscientious person. It ultimately amounts to degradation of my ability to function to the point where I actually can't get things together, no matter how much I want to. I can't recall things, let alone order them. I don't even have a working sense of time for most of my day. I'm constantly playing catch-up with things that are drifting in different directions - just chasing balloons. Even without depression setting in! I have to climb back out of that over the weeks and weeks before things start falling apart around me. Things stop making sense. Well, I comprehend everything, but nothing is where I need it. So it's not like I stop the games at that point and things go back to normal. They mask natural tendencies of my screwy brain that throw my whole life equilibrium out of whack a bit more easily than most folks. It's much easier to just regiment my time.

 

[AlwaysHope]

My steam A/C indicates over 1,000 for FO4 & its DLC.
Can't get enough of post apocalyptic open world RPG with FPV.
But nice I've moved on...

 

[Valantar]

I have to admit it's rather odd to be yelled at and (seemingly) blocked due to insisting that it is impossible to play games for more than 24 hours a day (and even that would be impossible for any extended period of time), though for what I'd call obvious reasons I won't bother reporting anything here. I would guess these impossible play times come down to several games or launchers running simultaneously, being left running without the PC going to sleep when not in use, etc. If anything, it goes to show how flawed a method counting cumulative application run times is for measuring play time. And obviously it doesn't take away from the fact that the OP has some seriously impressive playtimes in several games, even if they physically can't quite match the recorded times. (I also don't believe I ever claimed that anyone was lying, nor belittled anyone, though I'll freely admit that that time machine comment was completely unnecessary.)

I do want to chime in a bit on @Frick's question though, as it is a topic well worth discussing and that I have some experience with, even if it's completely OT. I would say that while there is some truth in that (social or physical) isolation can exacerbate some mental illnesses, this is extremely individuated and might just as well go the other way. Social anxiety and other similar anxieties are frequently comorbid with other mental illnesses, not to mention that even disregarding this, social interaction can be very stressful and draining on those with a more introverted personality, and can even trigger significant negative developments. So there are indeed many cases where staying in (at least for the most part) is by far the best approach, though that being said active treatment (in whatever form that may take - nothing is universal when it comes to treating mental illness) is obviously the only road towards getting better. Which, again, might not be possible, leaving techniques helping to alleviate symptoms and maintaining the best possible quality of life as the best course of action. As such, it's a question well worth asking, but also one that one ought to be a bit careful with, as it (regardless of intent) can come off dangerously close to the dismissive and damaging sentiment that people struggling with mental illnesses "just need to get out more".

 

[John Naylor]

There's already been a discussion of this, that post claims to have been playing for significantly more than 24 hours a day for the period after those games launched, so it's obviously not true unless that poster has invented a time machine.

Val:

While I'm sympathetic to the OPs situation, it serves no one to just ignore the impossible and just "go with it". This is a technical message board. In order to properly respond, one has to understand and accept the premise. In order to respond, folks are being asked to accept a condition which defies logic as well as mathematics. Since the math is impossible, one could only assume that this was an error in presentation. When people have different assumptions / positions, I like to use the saying "No one is ever wrong, one of them has simply been misinformed." On 1st read, to my eyes, there was misunderstanding of the data presented or the source of the data was somehow misrecorded or misinterpreted. Name calling and threats in response to a valid question is inappropriate.

Date Duration Calculator: Days Between Dates

The Duration Calculator calculates the number of days, months and years between two dates.

www.timeanddate.com

Fallout 3 (Release Date October 28, 2008) - Time since release = 4,330 days
ARMA: Armed Assault (February 16, 2007 ) - Time since release = 4,950 days
Arma 2 (June 19, 2009) - Time since release = 4,096 days

The average time in those games is 4,458.67 x 24 hours = 107,008 hours where a butt was in a chair playing PC games can not accomplish 150,000 hours of game time. ... and that's no sleep, no meals, no bathing, no bathroom breaks, no doctors / dentist visits, no family functions, no tutoring , no home schooling, no sicknesses, no reboots, no PC build time, no game download times no download game update time, no OS Updates, no hardware upgrades, no other games played, no power outrages ... and still the total is 30% beyond any measure sound reasoning. It essentially means playing 3 games 24/7 and doing nothing else for even a minute for the last 17.1 years ... from 2003 to present . To have played these 3 games for 150,000 hours, one would have had to start playing 24/7 on July 27th, 2003.... more than 3 years before the 1st game came out.

If one has certain In Game responsibilities to your team, guild, clan whatever, many folks will leave their toon logged in even when they are not playing. This allows members of the same group to leave messages, set group activity times, requested crafted items , etc. But playing one game while logged into 1 or 2 or 5 others, does not constitute "playing time". Gaining 150,000 of played time while being in the chair for 107,000 hours ....obviously, not possible. Sitting in a game chair, 24/7 and never getting up once to perform basic life necessities in 17.1 years from the age of 8 to 25 ? ... again, impossible.

I would suggest that the OP go back and look at the origin of the data and find where the wrong assumption was made. Was it a guestimate ? off the cuff ? A typo? ... math error ? Whatever it is. If there is an interest in maintaining the thread for the purpose of logical discourse, the original post needs to be edited and then responses could be geared to something within the realm of the possible.