300 hours on one Game ?

***wraggster*** · August 31st, 2009, 11:24

You think playing a game for 20-40 hours represents good value? You're playing the wrong kind of game, pal. You need to be playing sports games, where people bleed their annually-released games dry.

EA Sports' Dave Littman - producer on NHL at EA Canada - has told us that "The average EA SPORTS gamer spends 200 to 300 hours playing their favorite sports game each year". That figure is a combination of both online and offline play. And is for just one game.

Can't think of too many games outside of WoW, Call of Duty 4 or Halo 3 where we'd be looking at figures like that. And those are one-off games, not regular, annual occurrences.

Sounds absolutely bonkers, I know, but as someone who probably sinks 50-100 hours or so into FIFA each year (amidst having to play pretty much everything else as well), it also sounds entirely plausible. It might be a stretch saying the "average" gamer spends that long, but with many sports games fans picking up one game and one game only (they're a Madden guy, or an NBA guy, etc), then playing that game for nearly 12 months, there'd still be a sizeable number of people out there racking up hundreds of hours on a single game.

http://kotaku.com/5348984/the-people...0-hours-a-year

i think i have racked up maybe 600 hours playing redlaert 2 and same for champ manager psp

**ojdon** · August 31st, 2009, 12:36

The only games I can play for long periods of time is Cod4, Champ Manager 5 or 2008 and 2007 on the PSP. Oh and Kotor II but they're no where near 300 hours...

**noname1** · August 31st, 2009, 14:16

I've only played wow such a long time. ^^
Oh and my second is pokemon gold for the gbc i've played it for 160 hours. XD

**kojiro7** · August 31st, 2009, 15:00

300 hours only?I have spend more than 3000 hours on sensible soccer and king of fighters

**apex05** · August 31st, 2009, 15:30

300 hours, 3000 hours.. Pha.. i must have done 5000 hours on Super Mario 3.

**User Name** · August 31st, 2009, 18:51

I know I played 350 hours on Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 Cobi's Journey for GBC.

**Ennohex** · August 31st, 2009, 18:59

Ha, much respect to kojiro7.
I've clocked that time alone in King of Fighters 98, I'VE BEEN PLAYING IT SINCE 1998!!

Let's not forget Street Fighter either.

Let's see a yearly sports game beat 10 years play time.

Viva arcade fighters! Viva!

**irishwhip** · August 31st, 2009, 20:26

split between three main saves, i've spent over 500 hours on oblivion

**-Tj-** · September 1st, 2009, 04:52

Between Monster Hunter Freedom 2 and Unite (throw 2nd G in there since I converted the save from JP to US) I have 1500+ hours, and still going.

20-40 hours isn't too bad a value, but it's not great. That's something I'd expect from a decent story-driven game. Seeing as I can watch someone play through the SP games of Killzone 2 or Haze in a matter of a few hours or so, I'm not sure of the value of those for myself, especially since I often don't play games online.

I still recall playing Lunar 2 for 50+ hours, and Skies of Arcadia for around the same amount of time when they were new. I still play those from time to time, so I'm sure that adds hours to the value.