300 hours on one Game ?

[Ennohex]

I bet the people who play WoW never have the time to read this.

[Pilot_51]

My best way to track gameplay hours is on Xfire, where I have over 4800 hours (200 days) across around 100 games since joining on 2004-01-26. Of course, many of those games I've barely put any time into and only around 30 have 10+ hours or 10 have 100+ hours. My all-time favorite game, Battlefield 1942, is the only one over 1000 hours.
On Metroid Prime Hunters (which has in-game time tracking) I have 300+ hours, or 200+ on Wi-Fi. I damaged 2 touch screens (each lasted about a year and a half) because of my excessive playing of MPH, but have long since stopped playing because cheaters ruined it and friends rarely play it.

I try to balance my play time across several games, not only to keep things fresh and interesting but I think more than about 30 hours constantly in a single game within a week is bordering on addiction. That's mostly the case for multiplayer games since they never really come to an end that makes it extremely easy to stop playing.

As much as I like gaming, I'm not particularly happy about the time I've spent playing games, time that could've been used to do something more productive, like making games and earning a living.


Anyway, "good value" is relative, price is an extremely important factor. It's obvious so I won't go into details. "Good game" on the other hand would be a better way to put it.

The time spent playing also isn't the best indicator of how good a game is, especially when comparing between single-player and multiplayer games. A single-player game could have incredible gameplay but no matter what it's nearly impossible to get the replay value as good as a decent multiplayer game. I'm a big multiplayer gamer mainly because I don't have much money to shell out for games and want the best play time for my buck, but the single-player games are some of the most memorable, and cooperative multiplayer in a single-player storyline (which is very underrated) makes it so much better. I very rarely buy single-player-only games alone, it usually takes a bundle like the Orange Box to get me to get one; BTW as short as it is, Portal is a great single-player game, but in my case I probably wouldn't have paid even $5 for it alone considering how short-lived it is. I'd say, in my case again, about 10 cents per hour or better is good value (that's 5 hours every day to make WoW worth it with the monthly cost, but then it becomes addiction), the time period doesn't really matter.