I was looking at my playtime for some games and realized I have over 450 hours in PlanetSide 2.

I’ve been wanting to find a new game to sink some hours into so I’m curious what Lemmy plays the most.

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    5 days ago

    Dota, 9,000+ hours. I don’t play it anymore though, toxic af

    I now mostly play Path of Exile and World of Warships

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    7 days ago

    I wish I could filter out idle and clicker games. My biggies are Factorio and KSP for non-idle games. Several thousand hours in each.

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    9 days ago

    I got suckered into playing 800+ hours of GTA Online and paying thousands of SEK for shark cards over a year or two before I realized what a terrible game it is.

    I was addicted to it, and paid money every month to buy shark cards.

    When my work situation improved however, I took a few steps back and realized that I had wasted a lot of money on it and that I was only chasing the dragon that was just out of reach, kept away from me by carefully crafted mental mechanics of the game.

    I was disgusted and refused to participate further.

    I uninstalled it right away and have never looked back.

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      9 days ago

      Super proud of you internet stranger. Addictions fucking suck and are hard to break. Congratulations!

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        Yeah, I never let it spiral out of control, but I did let it take all of my lessiure money for a year or two, not fun.

        But educational.

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      I never spent a dime on it, but I did play for over 3000 hours before rock star blocked linux. I enjoyed the grind rather than the reward, so it sort of became my little safe-space game when I was really stresses out. could always just go hang out with my buds for a few hours and grind out a million bucks. I’m still kinda torn up about the anticheat situation tbh, I would gladly play alone if there were any way to play the same game. but story mode just doesnt compare for me, completly different game :(

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    Rimworld, way too much Rimworld. A big part of it is that I’ll often have it one a second computer during the workday just on pause to pop in during downtime but I guess that still counts as playtime just being loaded.

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      9 days ago

      Ive got 2.2k hours in RimWorld and I’ve only ever tried to launch a spaceship once(spoiler I died).

      Such a good game, such good modding scene.

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        9 days ago

        I’ve tried the game a few times and it doesn’t click with me. What’s is it that you find so appealing?

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          9 days ago

          I like that each pawn builds up a personality overtime and grows as a character. I pretty much just play Rimworld as a doll house simulator

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              8 days ago

              When someone does a heroic move I elevate them to hero status in the colony and they get a better bedroom, better armour and the best weapon.

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                  Look for the “vanilla expanded” mods.

                  It is a dedicated and organized team of modders that has output a stunning amount of content, all of it cohesive, and what many would consider required “base game” content.

                  They have literally put out dozens of mods that could be standalone DLC, all for free.

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                  7 days ago

                  Charge rifles or charge lances in vanilla. More laser weapons that you could ever use if you use mods.

        • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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          For me a lot of it is in trying to maximize efficiencies. Setting up task duties and resources where you have plenty enough but not overloading your storage. Defensive position designs to counter any possible situation. Layouts to the base to allow free movement.

          Lot of others try for specific artistic ideas or scenario goals, but I’m something of engineer minded player.

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            9 days ago

            I’m not efficiency oriented at all. Which I dislike because I wish I was, but simply not. I do like base building games, and enjoyed Banished a lot.

            I imagine you’ve played Satisfactory.

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      TF2 is one of my highest as well, but only half as many hours as you! Lots of hats… cashed out all my unusuals for an Index.

      Highest is probably Diablo II+D2R, played every day in my teens, from when I got home to when I slept. Then I started playing while botting. Has to be 3k+ hours. Never been so addicted to a video game.

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      Same, my most played game ever. I find it funny, at least to me, a game from 2007 thats barely supported by the dev is significantly better than the other modern derivatives of tf2 like overwatch and marvel bandwaggon money maker.

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        I’ll tell you what it is. Freedom.

        We can make servers, host servers, have our own communities and set our own rules. Hell, I haven’t played a Valve server in five years.

        Overwatch isn’t a matter of better or worse. It fails to do, at base value, what I value TF2 for, freedom.

        Add however many neat little gameplay mechanics you want, if I can’t play the game the way I want to, I’m not going to get into it or care.

        shrug

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          9 days ago

          I gave it a shot within the first year it came out, only ever played ~10 hours and just didn’t find it that fun I suppose.

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        Playing it with my boyfriend, I have about 500 hours, about to head to aquilo for the first time, wish us luck!

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          8 days ago

          Good luck and don’t forget to bring heat pipes!

          (More realistically, given you posted this 11 hours ago; hope y’all weren’t stranded!)

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            Actually we ended up just fixing production on Nauvis and getting epic mech armor lol.

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      9 days ago

      5500 on steam. 1500 before steam. The best game, and most value for money i have ever spent

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    World of Warcraft by a huge margin. A couple of years ago, I went through all my characters, and added the /played time up. I think it was already over 10k back then, and I’ve played a bunch since then. Also, I often delete characters, so I can’t count those. My sub runs for another 10 days, so I might take the time to check again.

    Next is probably Diablo 2, but that was 20 years ago, when this stuff wasn’t really automatically tracked.

    On Steam I have two idle games at 800 hours, FF14 650h, both Nioh games 600h each.

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      for sure wow… i remember in xfire days it logged like 20-25k hrs

      … i literally have nightmares where my character is reaching out of a black void sobbing “please im so lonely come back and play with me”

      fuck that whole game

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      9 days ago

      Likewise for me.

      I have upwards of 6k hours in WoW and my next closest games is Rainbow 6:Siege is ~500

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      I played Wow for the first 3-4 years after its launch.

      I had a part time job back then, but otherwise I was playing wow. At some point my /played time passed a year, after that I refused to look. I don’t know if it ever got to two years, but I fear it may have…

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    Factorio for me. Steam has 3000 hours logged, but I played it for ages before getting Steam version so really no idea. Estimating 4000 hours total.

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    9 days ago

    Before this I used to play certain games exclusively, often for 10+ hours a day (beefy laptop at work and then home).

    QuakeWorld - '98-2003

    Ragnarok Online - 2003-2008

    WoW - 2008-2012

    EVE - 2012-2014

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        I used to. Not since 2012. I had a night shift job, getting paid to do nothing.

        Also since 2020 I’ve been wfh. So technically yes, I play games at work.

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    I’ve been playing a Half-Life mod called Sven Coop since 1999. I play almost daily, if only for a half an hour when I get home to unwind. Multiple server owners have given me admin rights to help manage their servers so sometimes I’m just there to kick griefers or change levels that are broken so people don’t leave. There are many thousands of user made levels. People are still making them. The mod is still getting updated. Just did actually.

    It wasn’t added to Steam until 2016. So there was no way for me to track play hours until then. Since 2016 it shows that I have a little over 3000 hours. And I used to play more before I became an adult and had to do adult things. So I can only imagine what my total hours are.

    10,000 hours? And that’s probably conservative.

    I will have been playing regularly for 26 years this January.

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    The culling was nice until they ruined it, hunt was nice until they finally ran me off with their monetization efforts, valves deadlock is climbing my playtime ranks though. It’s now 7th place at 224 hours.

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      I’m trying so hard to get into deadlock but the game runs horribly. It’s not like I have a weak system, it’s mid range.

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        It certainly has a long way to go in some areas and is ahead of what I’d expect in others. It supposedly works on Linux but crashes immediately for me so Windows it is… here’s to hoping for a solid optimization patch.