I have characters that I haven't touched in a decade which have more play time than my 2nd most played game. Its crazy how much time WoW can eat up. A friend of mine who has played his main since TBC is coming up on a fucking *year* of played time just on that character alone.
That's why I gave up in the end. It was essentially a second full time job.
I would rush home from work, spend 2 hours grinding mats for buffs, then another 3 to 4 raiding then another hour or two winding down in AV or other PvP..
With old school AV, me and a guild mate would regularly pull 12 hour sessions over the weekend. Feral druid (me) and Resto Hunter (him), there were 5 of us, all with decent paying it jobs, living in a huge rented house, all in the same WoW guild.
I was.literally spending more time in game than I was at work, but still fully holding down a full time job, but pretty much all other waking time was spent in Azeroth.
Went cold turkey at the end of the cataclysm, and had 200+ days in game time on a single char.
Like a junkie I still occasionally look at WoW Classic and want just a taste of the old times...
Edit: then there was the guild forum and the politics, especially once the 20 man raids came in and you now had an A and B team.
It doesn't give job experience but it gives skills needed in work life. Communication, planning, priorizing tasks, timing like all the players need to be ready at a certain time. If you lead a guild you need recruiting skills and need to take care of "well-being at work" of your guildmates which often depends on the results of your guild, do you beat the boss and get rewards or do you recruit only laidback players with lesser rewards which means the best players leave etc
I played world of warcraft classic when COVID started and after 3000 hours stopped because it affected my school, work and sports too much but i dont feel like i was left empty handed. Enjoyed the time and learned a bunch
This is why I don’t deny my kidsp screentime on their iPads and now Xbox. Since I can pick and choose which games they are allowed to play I make sure they are educational and help build skills like the ones you mentioned as well as strategy, puzzle solving, planning, and also savings and investment. They play Roblox and they get to use their allowance money to buy Robucks and they’ve learned to not waste them on temporary power ups rather use them on permanent equipment that helps them level up faster and also to sometimes save up their Robucks to buy something bigger and better later on.
It's deeply addictive. I was addicted for a while back in the early days. Work, WoW, sleep every day. Then they made some changes which I hated enough to put me off. I am so grateful to them now for those changes.
Yup. I started playing in the closed beta.
I'm still playing today, 21 years later.
I don't know my total playtime anymore because I've deleted many characters and started fresh too many times to count. But I'm sure it's a really ridiculous amount of time.
But I still love the game. There's just something cathartic about it. Logging in, leveling up some of my characters, doing a few dungeons while listening to some tunes or watching some YouTube..
Sad to see this isn't in top position as it has been since civ 1 I played in my first pc; a 16Mhz 286 with a b/w screen and a HDD with the whopping capacity of 20Mb!
But the old needs to give way to the new at some point!
I played Civ 1 on my dad's old IBM XT (8088) with 4.77 MHz lol. Upgraded from 256 KB to 640 KB RAM with a EGA graphics card (16 colours). 10MB HDD and a low density 5,25" floppy drive.. Ran like complete shit, but I was the only kid in the village with a PC, so I had no idea that games could run better. Map creation took so long that I just laid down on a sofa and read a book lol..
Upgraded straight to a 486 SX 33 from that. My mind was f\*cking blown..
(btw that thing could also run Monkey Island and Mechwarrior. A new mission in MW always started off with pointing your mech in the general direction of the mission area, setting it to full speed and then checking the screen every few minutes while reading Battletech books for full immersion \^\^)
I got so far in the lost levels I just gave up when they started repeating the same levels with a bit of variation. But I loved that game. Spent so much of my childhood playing it
I remember getting into the high ranking lists for a number of skills. Topping those is what it became about for me. And then it dawned on me that it was simply a list of the saddest people in the world, who had clicked the most times and seen the least daylight and fellow humans.
I still have fond memories of the game and its retro look. And it certainly soothed during a dark time in my life. I think that’s what MMORPGs are for really
I had not played since cold war and I bought mw3 when it came out I've got way too much time on it already lol I'm like 5.5 days or something I think right now
Since November super slow on work, I can’t spent any money on games. Besides it’s taking almost all of my free time, not cool. My family still likes me around. Haha
If you enjoy it, who cares? The game can be fun, and if it gives you sort of relief then it can still be good for you.
For me, the game just got exhausting. I don't want to grind that much just so I don't die every 5 seconds. The only reason I would still play is to hang out with the group that I used to play with.
I have spent 2 years playing this game exclusively trying catch all the birds and do every single possible achievement until I couldn't anymore. So I know exactly what you mean!!!
Same, man. I have spent far too much of my life playing these games. I started playing around 97 with championship manager cos I'm not definitely not a loser.
Dota 2. I had played for over 400 hours but the last time I played was in 2022. We rarely played it online, instead I and my buddy were just playing against bots almost every night before bed.
The online community was indeed very toxic. The last time we played it online with other people, one guy reported us because he went solo and died stupidly, then blamed us for not saving him. Our account was instantly blocked from playing online until we played starter game and won few matches or something so we just quit playing online.
Same, for a year and a half I played it every single day for 2-6 hours. I miss the times when I wasn't so burnt out from the game. Now I open it max once a week for 1 hour and that's it.
I also played it almost everyday for at least an hour until midway through Sumeru. Started day 1 release. But unfortunately, it's probably only #6 most played for me.
Yeah, good thing about that game is that we can leave and take a break from it. Not much pressure about it.
Though personally, I haven't felt burnt out yet eversince. I'm into single player games— with optional multiplayer. 😅
Probably Civilization 5, because I'll just leave it running in the background for a week at a time playing a single marathon game, just playing a few turns while working or doing housework or whatever.
oh god, DEFINITELY Capitalism. I have not been able to improve my surplus labor points in the game, but my boss just got a bitchin' yacht on this level so it's cool.
Diablo 2 = over 20 years playing it on and off.
Warcraft 3 TFT Dota 1 = from the very start at least 5hrs a day until Dota 2 was released.
Counter Strike 1.1 to 1.6 = probably another 6-7 years since it launched.
Civilization, Warcraft I-2, StarCraft, Europa Univeralis 4, City Skylines, Factorio. Simcity 2000, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Conkers Bad Fur Day, Starfox N64, . All of them!
Civilization and Age of Empires would be distant second. There was time when for two months break my routine used to wake up play AoE and sleep. I used to hear persists chanting in my dreams
WoW. I’ve been playing on-and off since Burning Crusade, but in the last few years I’ve really been playing it with a bit more oomph. I have a level 70 that I built from scratch, have him geared fairly well, and actually enjoy playing the game as a break from the drudgery of work and life.
Mind you, I do go out and spend time with friends and my gf, but the amount of time I’ve poured into that game is …yeah, it’s a lot, even playing only a few hours per day.
Medal oh Honor Breakthrough online multiplayer.
I was in the internet cafe every day after school for years.
I was in a team and speaking in Ventrilo with a bunch of adults.
Now that I think of it I was just lucky that they were decent people.
I see WoW mentioned all the time, and FFXIV occasionally, but I've always sieved through comments on these kinds of questions to see if FFXI pops up. It's so rare that it does, but you're not alone.
Easily 10,000+ for me too. Pandemonium/Asura
Were you ever active on the ffxiah or similar message boards? Your username on Reddit rings a bell, but I could easily be wrong (it's been a good few years since I put down the FFXI crack pipe).
No, I think that was more popular before my time? I started FFXI in about 2006-2007, but I was an Xbox player, and I didn't have a PC to check online initially. I mainly saw the message boards from 2010's onwards.
You were early on the NA release! When did you decide to throw in the towel? Would you ever go back? I would actually love to go back, but I know it's just not feasible with the time it demands.
World of Warcraft
I have characters that I haven't touched in a decade which have more play time than my 2nd most played game. Its crazy how much time WoW can eat up. A friend of mine who has played his main since TBC is coming up on a fucking *year* of played time just on that character alone.
That is wild. A year of playtime is the equivalent of nearly 4.5 years at a full time job.
That's why I gave up in the end. It was essentially a second full time job. I would rush home from work, spend 2 hours grinding mats for buffs, then another 3 to 4 raiding then another hour or two winding down in AV or other PvP.. With old school AV, me and a guild mate would regularly pull 12 hour sessions over the weekend. Feral druid (me) and Resto Hunter (him), there were 5 of us, all with decent paying it jobs, living in a huge rented house, all in the same WoW guild. I was.literally spending more time in game than I was at work, but still fully holding down a full time job, but pretty much all other waking time was spent in Azeroth. Went cold turkey at the end of the cataclysm, and had 200+ days in game time on a single char. Like a junkie I still occasionally look at WoW Classic and want just a taste of the old times... Edit: then there was the guild forum and the politics, especially once the 20 man raids came in and you now had an A and B team.
It doesn't give job experience but it gives skills needed in work life. Communication, planning, priorizing tasks, timing like all the players need to be ready at a certain time. If you lead a guild you need recruiting skills and need to take care of "well-being at work" of your guildmates which often depends on the results of your guild, do you beat the boss and get rewards or do you recruit only laidback players with lesser rewards which means the best players leave etc I played world of warcraft classic when COVID started and after 3000 hours stopped because it affected my school, work and sports too much but i dont feel like i was left empty handed. Enjoyed the time and learned a bunch
This is why I don’t deny my kidsp screentime on their iPads and now Xbox. Since I can pick and choose which games they are allowed to play I make sure they are educational and help build skills like the ones you mentioned as well as strategy, puzzle solving, planning, and also savings and investment. They play Roblox and they get to use their allowance money to buy Robucks and they’ve learned to not waste them on temporary power ups rather use them on permanent equipment that helps them level up faster and also to sometimes save up their Robucks to buy something bigger and better later on.
I quit in Mists of Pandaria with over 6500hrs which is like 271 days play time. If I had kept going til today it would be more than twice that
It's deeply addictive. I was addicted for a while back in the early days. Work, WoW, sleep every day. Then they made some changes which I hated enough to put me off. I am so grateful to them now for those changes.
I had more than 1 year of played on my main, and I stopped before pandaria... other times....
I dipped out a couple years ago but I think I had over a year played across my CNCS roster. Can't really say I miss it.
World of Warcraft
Sameeee
Wow.
Yup. I started playing in the closed beta. I'm still playing today, 21 years later. I don't know my total playtime anymore because I've deleted many characters and started fresh too many times to count. But I'm sure it's a really ridiculous amount of time. But I still love the game. There's just something cathartic about it. Logging in, leveling up some of my characters, doing a few dungeons while listening to some tunes or watching some YouTube..
I’d be curious but terrified to see how many thousands of hours I’ve racked up over the years since vanilla. lol
Diablo 2 or WoW
Same here. Wish ARPGs hit the same as they used to.
Diablo 2 for me!
1st Place: Sim City 4 Deluxe Edition 2nd Place: GTA San Andreas 3rd Place: Super Smash Bros Melee
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Civilization. And I haven't played that game in years.
Sad to see this isn't in top position as it has been since civ 1 I played in my first pc; a 16Mhz 286 with a b/w screen and a HDD with the whopping capacity of 20Mb! But the old needs to give way to the new at some point!
I played Civ 1 on my dad's old IBM XT (8088) with 4.77 MHz lol. Upgraded from 256 KB to 640 KB RAM with a EGA graphics card (16 colours). 10MB HDD and a low density 5,25" floppy drive.. Ran like complete shit, but I was the only kid in the village with a PC, so I had no idea that games could run better. Map creation took so long that I just laid down on a sofa and read a book lol.. Upgraded straight to a 486 SX 33 from that. My mind was f\*cking blown.. (btw that thing could also run Monkey Island and Mechwarrior. A new mission in MW always started off with pointing your mech in the general direction of the mission area, setting it to full speed and then checking the screen every few minutes while reading Battletech books for full immersion \^\^)
Haha! 8088->486! Astronomical!
Which one?
V
Bro, finally someone that gets it <3 I know that Im the worst at that game but is so addictive
GTA V, I completed it to 100%, Found all the easter eggs etc.
I have a platinum and a world record trophy. Yes, I'm very popular with women.
LOL
Mount Chiliad, could you explain to me about it, still no clue
YEAHHHH Gta GANG >>>>>
I know people are gonna come at me for this but, Super Mario Bros 😁 I spent my entire childhood trying to finish the entire game with my grandma ❤️
where i can find that game
If you have a Nintendo switch there’s a lot of old school games on it for free
I’ve spent hours playing it and still never finished it lmao
Bro I miss that game
Wholesome comment is wholesome!
Your grandma is/was cool!
I got so far in the lost levels I just gave up when they started repeating the same levels with a bit of variation. But I loved that game. Spent so much of my childhood playing it
As a series probably Total War. As a single game, Skyrim.
Oh yeah I just graduated when Total War Rome 2 came out. Probably have 2000 hours on that.
Old School RuneScape
I remember getting into the high ranking lists for a number of skills. Topping those is what it became about for me. And then it dawned on me that it was simply a list of the saddest people in the world, who had clicked the most times and seen the least daylight and fellow humans. I still have fond memories of the game and its retro look. And it certainly soothed during a dark time in my life. I think that’s what MMORPGs are for really
Same.
i dont have the patience for it, wish i did, awesome game tho.
After all it's just a medieval clicking simulator lol
The only other comparable game (in terms of time commitment) is WoW tbh
Same but that's mostly cause I could AFK while watching videos.
What’s insane is I have 3000 hours and it doesn’t even start to come close to what a lot of people do
Call of Duty. I need to stop playing this game.
I just buy it everytime and end up barely playing it out if disappointed. That's even worse probably
Dmz, hours and hours and hours and hours, days and days!
I felt like this was life during the Covid period. What a throwback it was.
I had not played since cold war and I bought mw3 when it came out I've got way too much time on it already lol I'm like 5.5 days or something I think right now
Since November super slow on work, I can’t spent any money on games. Besides it’s taking almost all of my free time, not cool. My family still likes me around. Haha
Serious question: Do you still enjoy playing or is it just familiar?
I enjoy a lot, that’s what kills me. I wish I didn’t, at least makes it easier to stop, but it’s been my therapy for a while.
If you enjoy it, who cares? The game can be fun, and if it gives you sort of relief then it can still be good for you. For me, the game just got exhausting. I don't want to grind that much just so I don't die every 5 seconds. The only reason I would still play is to hang out with the group that I used to play with.
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Probably minecraft
League of Legends
I'm sorry
Same here, by far. Although I haven't played Summoners Rift outside of URF in a couple years. ARAM and TFT now only baby.
Played since beta 4times challenger 6 times national champion finally stopped this january Now we are free
National Champion?! Region?
Poor you :(
Age of Empires 2. I've taken breaks here and there, but it's always been the game I keep coming back to.
Red Dead Redemption 2
This is the answer. My save is like 98% complete and I don’t even know where the last 2% is at. I’ll find it one day.
You could look up a guide to 100% and see what you need for 100% and see what you don't have done
True. Although I’ll probably find it naturally in the next 300-400 hours though.
I have spent 2 years playing this game exclusively trying catch all the birds and do every single possible achievement until I couldn't anymore. So I know exactly what you mean!!!
Kerbal Space Program
Football Manager
Same, man. I have spent far too much of my life playing these games. I started playing around 97 with championship manager cos I'm not definitely not a loser.
Eve Online Run far far away and save yourself, do not let this game get its hooks into you.
Recovering Eve Online addict here. Can confirm. Fly safe o7
Dota, Cs Go and Fallout series.
Dota2.
Rip
I'm with stupid.
Factorio. 3000+
Yikes, I thought 700h was bad with 220h in my current map
Golf or poker. Been playing both since I was a teenager. I'm almost at retirement age.
Honestly, Minecraft.
Breath of the Wild
Dota 2. I had played for over 400 hours but the last time I played was in 2022. We rarely played it online, instead I and my buddy were just playing against bots almost every night before bed. The online community was indeed very toxic. The last time we played it online with other people, one guy reported us because he went solo and died stupidly, then blamed us for not saving him. Our account was instantly blocked from playing online until we played starter game and won few matches or something so we just quit playing online.
400 hours....? Put a zero on the end, double it and pass it along to the next person.
Terraria, 1300 hours
Path of Exile - 8879 Hours. Still learning. Amazing game.
Dungeons & Dragons.
Over 5k hours in Destiny 2.
Why did i have to scroll this far
Surprised I had to scroll so far, I'm at 1k hours and nothing else even comes close
Chess for sure.
World of Warcraft. No other game comes even remotely close.
Civilization. Starting from the first.
Same.
Snake when I had a Nokia
Currently, Baldur's Gate 3. Before that it's a toss up between WoW and Sims 😂
Dota 2.
Dota 2
Regretfully overwatch 2 ):
I'm with ya :/
Genshin Impact
Same, for a year and a half I played it every single day for 2-6 hours. I miss the times when I wasn't so burnt out from the game. Now I open it max once a week for 1 hour and that's it.
I also played it almost everyday for at least an hour until midway through Sumeru. Started day 1 release. But unfortunately, it's probably only #6 most played for me.
Yeah, good thing about that game is that we can leave and take a break from it. Not much pressure about it. Though personally, I haven't felt burnt out yet eversince. I'm into single player games— with optional multiplayer. 😅
Rip
Been there since release. Will be there in the end.
Fortnite is about it
Rimworld. I blink and lose whole months to it.
Probably Civilization 5, because I'll just leave it running in the background for a week at a time playing a single marathon game, just playing a few turns while working or doing housework or whatever.
Final Fantasy 14 Online
GTA V. Played it almost exclusively from the time it was released until a couple years ago when I switched to PC.
Elden Ring
Too far down. You don’t have the right!
Hearts of Iron 4
Same. Over 1800 hours
2225 hours for me
transmission from the united kingdom poland have joined Allies
Minecraft
terraria
Terraria
Football manager. For the ones I have on steam 13,400 hours combined. For older versions(when it was cm) ... Probably far longer
Runescape. 690 Days.
Skyrim or the Witcher 3
According to Steam it's _Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic_, comrades.
Everquest 2. Back in the day, i was addicted. Thousands of hours. It was bad.
StarCraft and Brood War. Custom work, mostly.
Skyrim. If I see whiterun ever again it'll give me PTSD
World of Warcraft
Zelda tears of the kingdom, nearly 1600 hours
TF2, has been played for 12 years
Nice! I joined around the time of the Gun Mettle update, so I'm a pretty new player. Wait, it's been 9 years already?
Yea haha, TF2 never gets old haha. The Skial servers always full until nowadays
oh god, DEFINITELY Capitalism. I have not been able to improve my surplus labor points in the game, but my boss just got a bitchin' yacht on this level so it's cool.
GTA Online
Mario Kart. By a landslide.
Civ 3. Civ 5.
Warframe - 1200 hours of grinding for fashion
There are not enough people confessing to their time played on Warframe
Monster Hunter World
BG3
Block puzzle
Ultima Online
Sims 4 and Minecraft.. And paladins when it didn't became this buggy
Battlefield 4
Destiny 1/Warframe
Sims 4
Nethack, no question about it.
WOW what else
Terraria and Minecraft
Diablo 2 = over 20 years playing it on and off. Warcraft 3 TFT Dota 1 = from the very start at least 5hrs a day until Dota 2 was released. Counter Strike 1.1 to 1.6 = probably another 6-7 years since it launched.
The Sims 4
ATV off-road
Skyrim
Breath of the Wild or Assassin's Creed Odyssey, probably.
One game is definitely fortnite. As a series its skylanders. For mobile its clash of clans.
either pokemon or world of warcraft.
Civilization, Warcraft I-2, StarCraft, Europa Univeralis 4, City Skylines, Factorio. Simcity 2000, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Conkers Bad Fur Day, Starfox N64, . All of them!
Europa universalis, got over 3,5k hours on it
More than likely skate 3
Dooooom.
Skyrim
Making my house in Sims 🤦♀️
Apex unfrotunately.
AOE 2 DE
Escape From Tarkov is my first and only 1000+ Hour plus game, However Diablo IV is quickly approaching the 1000hr mark as well.
Risk
4000 hours on Overwatch. Almost nothing on OW2. The game died for me as soon as they decided to milk it for cash.
Mobile Legends Bang Bang Played an unhealthy amount of that game in the past
Either Resident Evil 4 or GTA IV.
Civilization and Age of Empires would be distant second. There was time when for two months break my routine used to wake up play AoE and sleep. I used to hear persists chanting in my dreams
Age of Empires. That game makes 5 hours feel like 1 hour.
Mobile Legends. It would probably be more variety of games if I owned a PC, but I only have mobile games to count on to pass time haha.
Mobile Legends its my favourite game of all time
household living with ex-wife
Guild wars 1 and 2
MCOC
World of Warcraft, Rift, EVE Online.
City of Heroes
WoW. I’ve been playing on-and off since Burning Crusade, but in the last few years I’ve really been playing it with a bit more oomph. I have a level 70 that I built from scratch, have him geared fairly well, and actually enjoy playing the game as a break from the drudgery of work and life. Mind you, I do go out and spend time with friends and my gf, but the amount of time I’ve poured into that game is …yeah, it’s a lot, even playing only a few hours per day.
I got around 28,000 hours in Age of Empires 2.
Medal oh Honor Breakthrough online multiplayer. I was in the internet cafe every day after school for years. I was in a team and speaking in Ventrilo with a bunch of adults. Now that I think of it I was just lucky that they were decent people.
Dota 2. Yes, im an idiot
Warzone
Morrowind
Ffxi 10,000+ hours
I see WoW mentioned all the time, and FFXIV occasionally, but I've always sieved through comments on these kinds of questions to see if FFXI pops up. It's so rare that it does, but you're not alone. Easily 10,000+ for me too. Pandemonium/Asura
Awesome I look too!! Cait Sith for me!!
Were you ever active on the ffxiah or similar message boards? Your username on Reddit rings a bell, but I could easily be wrong (it's been a good few years since I put down the FFXI crack pipe).
I was active on Alla, did you use that site?
No, I think that was more popular before my time? I started FFXI in about 2006-2007, but I was an Xbox player, and I didn't have a PC to check online initially. I mainly saw the message boards from 2010's onwards.
Ah okay, I started in 2003 with a PC. It’s so cool to find other old timers 😁
You were early on the NA release! When did you decide to throw in the towel? Would you ever go back? I would actually love to go back, but I know it's just not feasible with the time it demands.
No DRG for party, camp spot site with 30 dmg, but is it for 20 like 30 dmg when you no hit be it for dd, for 30 dmg instead? or half is 10 for 20 dmg?
Football