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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's me. I have numerous games like this. The answer? Alt-tab + multiple monitors + powerful PC. It's easier for me to just switch to another application and switch back when I want to keep gaming than to close the game completely and open it again... Only sometimes it's more than a day before I get back to playing again. And there's how you end up with numerous games with thousands and thousands of hours on Steam.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

More than a day?

So you don’t shut down your Pc when done? I only ask as I always turn it off.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Only time my pc shutdowns is for kernel updates or it crashes.

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 18 hours ago

I will literally go months without my PC being turned off or even rebooted. To each their own. 😂

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

The only games I have over 1000 hours in are games that I've owned for more than 10 years and are online. TF2, Counter-Strike, Arma 2 and 3, Rocket League...

I love Souls games and have played the shit out of every single one; but they average 300-500 hours of total playtime.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow that Factorio time is a lot and I’m on my way there.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cracktorio is a hell of a drug.

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[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

My steam account has just over 4000 hours logged in Dota 2, plus there's about 1000 hours sitting on another dead account somewhere.

I played the game for like 7 years, pretty much daily for anywhere between 30 minutes to... Well I did a 24 hour stream once when I finally decided to play ranked for a while. I think about that stream whenever I consider going back to the game, but the audience has changed so much and language barriers are so difficult in games like that

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Leaving *Commandos" on pause when I don't play racks up hours it seems 🤷🏼‍♀️

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

How many hours yearly do people work?

Assume 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year. That makes 2000 hours a year. So yeah, how do people pull through with this?

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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

Forget to turn the launcher off and your computer off a few times and it adds up.

Some people are also lucky enough to have a bullshit job and still be remote.

[–] don@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

Some like a game enough to play it for years. I wasn’t one, until I found an obscure racing combat game called “OnRush”, and have over 3700 hours in it. Can’t even get it on the PS Store anymore, but I still play it drunk now and again.

[–] Epzillon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

My max is csgo with 600 hrs and I'm still trash at it.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 5 points 1 day ago

You just got to find the right game that will ruin your life.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

When you find that one game that you love that also has infinite replayability. Four years later your likely to have thousands of hours if you play it everyday.

[–] xelar@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Running the game servers with Steam installed can do that.

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago

Factorio enters chat.

[–] DrownedRats@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have around 1500 in KSP but tbf, most of that is AFK where I've had to do long manouvre burns in the multiples of hours so I've just set it and walked away lol.

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