I discovered today that my most played game on Steam is Astronner with about 500 hours, and my second most played is Surviving Mars with about 500 hours.
Before the community died off I had put just under 20,000 hours into Subspace / Continuum (mostly on EG). No, that’s not a typo. I learned what addiction looks like as I grew older.
Between that, NexusTK, The Realm and an unhealthy obsession with SNES JRPGs I don’t know how I managed to make it through grade / high school…
World of warcraft. Still true. I only played up through Crusade even. But it ate literally dozens of days of my life. I wouldn’t say I regret that, as it was a learning experience for me. But I would definitely not have played wow if I could go back.
I had over 300 days logged on my main, vanilla through cata.
For me, and I think most people with an obscene amount of time logged - we weren’t there for the game, we were there for the guild. It’s been years since I played, but I’m still in regular contact with some of those people - WAY more so than old friends from school and such.
Those folks were my digital family - I don’t regret those hours for a second.
Continuum. I have more than 10 thousand hours on my main account, 3 thousand more on alts I do not have access anymore. Most of the time was afk or just being online since it had a chat and very lightweight. You can see top players by usage time on the trenchwars server website.
For perspective, that’s like 6 years of full-time employment. I am equal parts impressed and horrified.
At the very least, that game has cost you over USD 87,000 in those six years in terms of money not earned. (assuming 12,000 hours of minimum wage work).
Yeah but we work to live, not the other way round. Apart from it being about the only way to get a trickle of money coming in, the time spent digging someone else’s ditch is the wasted time, not the fun times we have from spending the money.
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