Most Hours Spent On A Game

[road doggy dogg]

I've spent countless hours (long before Steam came out and logged said hours) playing various SimCity titles and Diablo 2. Tons of other guys.

Nothing will ever top the timesink that WoW was though. I remember back on my first account, around 2006 or so my /played (time spent logged into the game on that character) was over 300 days, meaning I'd spent pretty much a solid year out of 3 years of my real life in the game. That's when I sold my account because it was a real eye opener. Of course, I probably put in an equal amount of time since then because willpower what's that?

[Ruien]

Originally Posted by road doggy dogg I've spent countless hours (long before Steam came out and logged said hours) playing various SimCity titles and Diablo 2. Tons of other guys. Nothing will ever top the timesink that WoW was though. I remember back on my first account, around 2006 or so my /played (time spent logged into the game on that character) was over 300 days, meaning I'd spent pretty much a solid year out of 3 years of my real life in the game. That's when I sold my account because it was a real eye opener. Of course, I probably put in an equal amount of time since then because willpower what's that?

I was not as bad as that but I put over a year onto the game myself. Was not until 9 months ago I was able to get away from it and stop thinking about it. It REALLY helped the new expansion (it may be out now?) seemed like a big patch because it was not adding in new classes/races. At least from the little I seen. Just new content.

[mitchables]

Originally Posted by Ruien I was not as bad as that but I put over a year onto the game myself. Was not until 9 months ago I was able to get away from it and stop thinking about it. It REALLY helped the new expansion (it may be out now?) seemed like a big patch because it was not adding in new classes/races. At least from the little I seen. Just new content.

they added a new race and a new class for pandaria, are you thinking of cataclysm (two expansions ago)? i think you might be, because the next expansion is also definitely more than just a "big patch".

all of which is to say - like rdd, this, too, will forever be the game that i poured the most time into, because there is just no time in my life that i will ever have the disposable time/income to play a single game like i did wow, a game that i have literally spent more than a year of my life, in total hours, playing.

i still play it casually, so that figure will always stay ahead of any other game, but even if i never touched it again, i don't think i'd be able to replicate that kind of dedication to a single game.

[road doggy dogg]

Originally Posted by mitchables they added a new race and a new class for pandaria, are you thinking of cataclysm (two expansions ago)? i think you might be, because the next expansion is also definitely more than just a "big patch". all of which is to say - like rdd, this, too, will forever be the game that i poured the most time into, because there is just no time in my life that i will ever have the disposable time/income to play a single game like i did wow, a game that i have literally spent more than a year of my life, in total hours, playing. i still play it casually, so that figure will always stay ahead of any other game, but even if i never touched it again, i don't think i'd be able to replicate that kind of dedication to a single game.

Mists was okay, I think I've spent more time collecting/battling the Battle Pets than any singular other event in WoW over the past 4 years. Account currently frozen but the few months I did play Mists I quite enjoyed it.

That being said, I think WoD may be the first expansion I actually skip. Really not hyped for it at all tbh

[Ruien]

Originally Posted by mitchables they added a new race and a new class for pandaria, are you thinking of cataclysm (two expansions ago)? i think you might be, because the next expansion is also definitely more than just a "big patch". all of which is to say - like rdd, this, too, will forever be the game that i poured the most time into, because there is just no time in my life that i will ever have the disposable time/income to play a single game like i did wow, a game that i have literally spent more than a year of my life, in total hours, playing. i still play it casually, so that figure will always stay ahead of any other game, but even if i never touched it again, i don't think i'd be able to replicate that kind of dedication to a single game.

I was talking about the upcoming expansion. It may have changed into something more because I only really read about it when it was first announced.

This will also be my first time skipping the expansion.