Guild Wars 2

How many hours total do you have logged in GW2?

Quickly approaching 6k here… There are people with more play time than me, right? I forget what the sun looks like.

Someone posted 7.4k hours as of the 1000th day, so you’re definitely not the “worst”. I’m personally at 1600 hours (exactly) after 736 days with little or no AFKing.

3,800 hours here! 1000 days with little to no AFK time either.

Just a measley 2,000 hours.

4.3k hours in the past 1006 days.

Approx 6100 hours over 32 months.

I have waaaaaaay more hours logged than you OP. But you know, I’m nuts. lol

Never, never /age yourself!

…2.3k hours. >_>"

8938 hours over 1,006 days

2424 hours in 905 days.

What command do you type to see this?

Ralanost.8913:

What command do you type to see this?

/age

):

Hope this puts a smile on your face OP

Just for you OP.

if i still played like i used too. I dont know how many id have. but all i do is dailies now.

1,055 hours in total. Now consider I took about 2 years off.

1450 hours, 800 days. i guess i’m not that bad :P

2900 hours over the last 1006 days…

Of course I earned two A.S. degrees since I’ve been playing and I work.

penelopehannibal.8947:

Hope this puts a smile on your face OP

10k?! Good god ><. We have the gamer’s life, that’s for sure :P.

Anyone else here break 10,000 hours? lol

Cuddy.6247:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Hope this puts a smile on your face OP

That’s ten hours a day…

Seeing some of the numbers in this thread, does this seriously not bother some of you guys? Because if I looked back on two years and noticed I logged 10 hours a day on a computer game I’d probably throw myself off the nearest bridge.

Not really. I work, i go to school(College) i play video games, i talk to my BF for the one hour hes up at the same time i am(Yay different parts of the world), so its pretty easy to get a mass number of hours logged

penelopehannibal.8947:

Hope this puts a smile on your face OP

Well then son, you’ve got a condition.

Okay guys this was to help with self esteem not to put people down. Some of us such as myself have a lot of play time for personal reasons, no need to go questioning the reasons behind having a ton of play time or making fun.

Dante.1763:

Cuddy.6247:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Hope this puts a smile on your face OP

That’s ten hours a day…

Seeing some of the numbers in this thread, does this seriously not bother some of you guys? Because if I looked back on two years and noticed I logged 10 hours a day on a computer game I’d probably throw myself off the nearest bridge.

Not really. I work, i go to school(College) i play video games, i talk to my BF for the one hour hes up at the same time i am(Yay different parts of the world), so its pretty easy to get a mass number of hours logged

Maybe I’m just old-fashioned but being plugged-in for most, if not all, of your free time just seems like you’re avoiding the awkwardness that can come with real life, spontaneous interaction.

Cuddy.6247:

Maybe I’m just old-fashioned but being plugged-in for most, if not all, of your free time just seems like you’re avoiding the awkwardness that can come with real life, spontaneous interaction.

Musta missed the part where i work and go to college huh? 4-9 hours of work most days and 3-4 hours of college, thats quite enough human interaction for me! xD

Vayne.8563:

I have waaaaaaay more hours logged than you OP. But you know, I’m nuts. lol

I remember this:

Vayne.8563:

3335 Hours over the past 9 months.

Let me guess: around 11.850 hours by now?

Test.8734:

Vayne.8563:

I have waaaaaaay more hours logged than you OP. But you know, I’m nuts. lol

I remember this:

Vayne.8563:

3335 Hours over the past 9 months.

Let me guess: around 11.850 hours by now?

10,154. Obviously, even though I’m often logged in, I’m not actively playing during all that time.

Vayne.8563:

Test.8734:

Vayne.8563:

I have waaaaaaay more hours logged than you OP. But you know, I’m nuts. lol

I remember this:

Vayne.8563:

3335 Hours over the past 9 months.

Let me guess: around 11.850 hours by now?

10,154. Obviously, even though I’m often logged in, I’m not actively playing during all that time.

I’m surprised that so many people from that topic are still around.

Test.8734:

Vayne.8563:

Test.8734:

Vayne.8563:

I have waaaaaaay more hours logged than you OP. But you know, I’m nuts. lol

I remember this:

Vayne.8563:

3335 Hours over the past 9 months.

Let me guess: around 11.850 hours by now?

10,154. Obviously, even though I’m often logged in, I’m not actively playing during all that time.

I’m surprised that so many people from that topic are still around.

I’m not really. If you like the game, you like the game. It hasn’t really substantially changed. And there’s no other MMORPG out there that gives me what I get from this game. If there had been, it might have been a different story.

OP must “afk” less (or in his case let the game idle less)

Dante.1763:

Cuddy.6247:

Maybe I’m just old-fashioned but being plugged-in for most, if not all, of your free time just seems like you’re avoiding the awkwardness that can come with real life, spontaneous interaction.

Musta missed the part where i work and go to college huh? 4-9 hours of work most days and 3-4 hours of college, thats quite enough human interaction for me! xD

You must have missed the part where I was discussing in relation to the absurd times of 8-10 hours/day, which you categorically fall out of. Keep in mind that these are averages. This isn’t like just wanting to not get out of the house on a rainy day so played games instead. This is systematically logging in enough hours to have an average of 8-10 hours per day. This obviously doesn’t apply to you, since you’re working and mingling in school.

Not to mention the times wouldn’t add up. Assuming that people are in good health and actually sleep about eight hours a night, you only have 16 hours left – 8-12 of which will be spent doing other activities (such as your job and school). There’s no room for ten hour times for you. If you’d trade your social interaction at work/school though for more game time, I would say that’s socially unhealthy.

I’m pretty sure I’m somewhere between 2.5 and 3k hours. I’m not at home, and don’t have the game on my work laptop, to check.

I just want to point out to those people assuming way too much about others lives, it is quite possible that people who suffer from physical or mental disabilities play these kinds of games a lot. Therefore you just sound ridiculous telling others how to live their lives. Not everyone is able to go do the things you can. And hey if you play at all you have no reason to make anyone feel bad for also playing. Cause that’s just being a hypocrite.

For myself I think I’m around 2.5k hrs most of that before the NPE and trait changes.

ozmaniandevil.6805:

it is quite possible that people who suffer from physical or mental disabilities play these kinds of games a lot.

After all this time pugging as a necromancer, I would have to agree. Not the physical part, but the mental.

ozmaniandevil.6805:

I just want to point out to those people assuming way too much about others lives, it is quite possible that people who suffer from physical or mental disabilities play these kinds of games a lot. Therefore you just sound ridiculous telling others how to live their lives. Not everyone is able to go do the things you can. And hey if you play at all you have no reason to make anyone feel bad for also playing. Cause that’s just being a hypocrite.

For myself I think I’m around 2.5k hrs most of that before the NPE and trait changes.

It’s true. I know a married couple in Guild Wars 1 where the wife has lots of medical conditions and is wheelchair bound, and therefore stays at home most of the time and spends her time playing and socializing in that game.

ozmaniandevil.6805:

it is quite possible that people who suffer from physical or mental disabilities play these kinds of games a lot.

Which changes what, exactly? Homes to the disabled just end up feeling like gilded cages. No medical professional who values their career or knowledge would suggest that disabled people shouldn’t live socially constructive lives.

Cuddy.6247:

ozmaniandevil.6805:

it is quite possible that people who suffer from physical or mental disabilities play these kinds of games a lot.

Which changes what, exactly? Homes to the disabled just end up feeling like gilded cages. No medical professional who values their career or knowledge would suggest that disabled people shouldn’t live socially constructive lives.

And if that person suffers agorophobia? Unless you’re a doctor, you probably shouldn’t comment on what is healthy for other people, or even what doctors would say.

I’m at about 4800 hours in a little over two years (I think my two year bday was a month ago).

You can speculate all you want about why someone has x amount of hours, but you don’t really know that person. I was not working much, depressed, going through a tough time and for some of us, the game becomes an escape. It’s also where we meet some of our best friends. And I can honestly say that my in game friends were a lot more interested in listening and talking with me than my “irl” ones.

I’m playing less now, but I still occasionally binge play for 8 hours at a time (usually lose track of time in wvw).

People work 9-5 in a job they hate until they die. Who’s to say what’s wasted time anyhow? Is is what you do or what you get out of it?

Ultimately it’s all just chemicals and electricity in the grey matter.

Vayne.8563:

Cuddy.6247:

ozmaniandevil.6805:

it is quite possible that people who suffer from physical or mental disabilities play these kinds of games a lot.

Which changes what, exactly? Homes to the disabled just end up feeling like gilded cages. No medical professional who values their career or knowledge would suggest that disabled people shouldn’t live socially constructive lives.

And if that person suffers agorophobia? Unless you’re a doctor, you probably shouldn’t comment on what is healthy for other people, or even what doctors would say.

Or unless they have any kind of medical condition that stops them from going outside. What do we know though.

Just gonna leave this here and stop replying, because this thread is way off topic and what should have been a relatively fun thread is no longer. @Cuddy, Dont judge others, You dont know them, you dont know how they live, and you dont know where they have been or what they have been through. I dont care if you dont approve how they spend their time, with hold your judgement about them. Which is how this whole thing started, you pretty much told the people here that they should throw themselves off a bridge because they where spending so long on video games. Congrats on that.

Cuddy.6247:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Hope this puts a smile on your face OP

That’s ten hours a day…

Seeing some of the numbers in this thread, does this seriously not bother some of you guys? Because if I looked back on two years and noticed I logged 10 hours a day on a computer game I’d probably throw myself off the nearest bridge.

But then you did not only “waste” 10k hours on a video game, but also threw away the rest of your life.

I’m agoraphobic and have severe anxiety on top of it. I do not leave my house except for very special reasons (usually doctor appts or family gatherings I cannot miss).
Reading comments like most of these posted here- telling me because I seek socialization in a video game is bad only serves to make my problem worse.
Would you rather someone in my situation not play an MMO and be completely cut off from the world in total?
Yes, I read, have crafts, even an indoor garden. But why should I not be allowed to have interaction with others for most of my day as well?
I have just over 1300h in GW2 over 794d. I took off several months to go back to WoW after WoD launched, and I have come back recently due to the rising toxicity in WoW.
This is not what I ever expected form the GW2 community. This is heading down the same path, and will most likely drive me away from the forums.
I am in a guild of one. I do not do dungeons or fractals because pugs give me anxiety attacks. I do not party with others unless someone else sends a request (which is very infrequent).
I come here, to “lurk” and learn what’s going on in the community but it seems that is coming to an end as well. There’s always been a bias against “people like me”… It almost brings me to tears to see myself and others like me (either mentally or physically chained this way) to be treated such.
Happy day. Safe Journeys.

Cuddy.6247:

That’s ten hours a day…

Seeing some of the numbers in this thread, does this seriously not bother some of you guys? Because if I looked back on two years and noticed I logged 10 hours a day on a computer game I’d probably throw myself off the nearest bridge.

Cuddy.6247:

Maybe I’m just old-fashioned but being plugged-in for most, if not all, of your free time just seems like you’re avoiding the awkwardness that can come with real life, spontaneous interaction.

Thank you for your wavering concern regarding the amount of hours I’ve spent on Guild Wars 2, and of course, for the state of my mental health.

If it’s really important to you that I must clarify why I’ve managed to spend so much time in the game without throwing myself off a bridge, it is because I am a full-time carer for my disabled wife who needs my care during the day as she suffers from more than one disability.

Sometimes I have to walk away from the game to administer her medication, so there is some AFK time there. Some nights during the week, I engage in RP with my guild mates. Mostly Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

Also, on a Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, my guild and some of our friends hang out in Divinity’s Reach listening to one of our guild member’s radio shows.

As for actual gameplay, I first spent a lot of time levelling alts, then after so many I decided to see how many I can get to 100% map completion. I’ve done eight so far, working on character No. 9.

Some people choose to play and interact with video games instead of watching TV all day. Not everyone is a Game of Thrones fan!!!

I hope this puts to one side some of your concerns, and that I can assure you that both my mental and my physical conditions are at the moment, quite stable and I have no plans in the near future to go throw myself off a bridge.

3147 hours! 1007 days! The odd working week taken off! *back to game*

Wasted time is just a perspective dude. It’s all just concepts and made up rules. All value is assigned.

How many of those 7k-10k hours are spent AFK? Like they log in play a couple of hours, leave it on go make dinner, watch a movie, play another game, sleep, whatever, and then come back?

Even if you average say 10 hours a day, that means on some days you are playing less than 10 hours, and sometimes more. I just find it very unlikely someone spends 8-10 hours a day actually playing the game.

Double post bug

2,345 hours over 1,007 days.

Edit: An average of 2.3 hours a day apparently. But of course some days it’s more like 8 hours and others I don’t play at all.

penelopehannibal.8947:

Cuddy.6247:

That’s ten hours a day…

Seeing some of the numbers in this thread, does this seriously not bother some of you guys? Because if I looked back on two years and noticed I logged 10 hours a day on a computer game I’d probably throw myself off the nearest bridge.

Cuddy.6247:

Maybe I’m just old-fashioned but being plugged-in for most, if not all, of your free time just seems like you’re avoiding the awkwardness that can come with real life, spontaneous interaction.

Thank you for your wavering concern regarding the amount of hours I’ve spent on Guild Wars 2, and of course, for the state of my mental health.

If it’s really important to you that I must clarify why I’ve managed to spend so much time in the game without throwing myself off a bridge, it is because I am a full-time carer for my disabled wife who needs my care during the day as she suffers from more than one disability.

Sometimes I have to walk away from the game to administer her medication, so there is some AFK time there. Some nights during the week, I engage in RP with my guild mates. Mostly Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

Also, on a Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, my guild and some of our friends hang out in Divinity’s Reach listening to one of our guild member’s radio shows.

As for actual gameplay, I first spent a lot of time levelling alts, then after so many I decided to see how many I can get to 100% map completion. I’ve done eight so far, working on character No. 9.

Some people choose to play and interact with video games instead of watching TV all day. Not everyone is a Game of Thrones fan!!!

I hope this puts to one side some of your concerns, and that I can assure you that both my mental and my physical conditions are at the moment, quite stable and I have no plans in the near future to go throw myself off a bridge.

You’re not alone, and you shouldn’t listen to the naysayers. Those who have never experienced it have no idea and shouldn’t judge.

We all do what we have to to get through the night.

Some of us understand that. Those that don’t understand shouldn’t be talking.