• SatansMaggotyCumFart
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          162 months ago

          Man the only things I’ve spent thirty-five hundred hours on are shitting, sleeping, working and eating.

          • fushuan [he/him]
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            62 months ago

            People that play 1-2 hours a day for the year for 5-10 years will have 3560 hours by the end of it. Anymore than that and it will be more.

            +3k hours is not that hard for games that have been there for a while.

          • RaivoKulli
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            32 months ago

            I wonder if I’d prefer DOTA for 8,5 hours daily or working

            • @Honytawk@feddit.nl
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              12 months ago

              I’d get bored of it after a week when I have done everything the game has to offer. Unless it was behind grind-fests, then it would be sooner.

              • RaivoKulli
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                12 months ago

                In some jobs that “all it has to offer” comes way quicker than a week

      • @jballs@sh.itjust.works
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        102 months ago

        That’s actually a brilliant review and sums up my feelings on having played League of Legends for several years.

    • @plm00@lemmy.ml
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      442 months ago

      From what I’ve seen it means the game used to be good (or had good potential), then the developers messed things up.

    • @Karjalan@lemmy.world
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      392 months ago

      Usually games as a service, they’ll release a large patch or expansion that makes significant, unpopular, changes. So lots of long time fans will review bomb it, in a good way, to show their displeasure.

      It’s sometimes works too.

      • @Vipsu@lemmy.world
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        42 months ago

        One does not even need to review bomb as a single update can easily ruin a game. After that it’s no longer comparable to the game one was playing for possibly thousands of hours.

  • Shadowedcross
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    252 months ago

    Think I have something like 16k hours across all my PC games, with EU5 having the most at ~1.7k, I’ll never understand how someone can have more than 10k in one game.

    • @Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world
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      92 months ago

      My most played games like Terraria are well under 1K. Even this was before I become a parent and started working full-time.

      These days if I put more than 50 hours into a game its considered a lot. I just finished the Oblivion Remastered and literally this was the only game I played for many weeks, with a playtime of ~45 hours.

      I can’t imagine playing something for 10K hours.

    • @Honytawk@feddit.nl
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      Some people are afraid of trying new things. And they also don’t mind doing the exact same thing over and over.

      So they play repetitive games like Call Of Duty, Rocket League, LoL, Dota, Counter Strike, … where every match is the same gameplay. And they don’t get bored, even after 10k hours.

      If they were to play Terraria, they would be the ones mining the entire map as a “challenge”

      • @Phunter@lemmy.zip
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        52 months ago

        PvP is inherently not repetitive due to the fact you will be interacting with many many different people over your gameplay sessions. And people are random, inconsistent, and weird.

        Also, some people like honing a particular skill. It’s not really about being afraid to try new things, but rather trying to be better at one thing.

        • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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          12 months ago

          that’s true to a degree, but not for 10k hours, 10k hours is literally the amount of time people use as a benchmark for slogging away at something until you master it and i can’t think of any FPS game that is quite that varied unless you just play a new map every day

    • @Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
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      352 months ago

      I’ve left a game open on the main screen, or paused, so many times that my play counters are not remotely trustworthy

        • MeatPilot
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          That’s 4 years or 104 fortnights or 1,458+ poop socks.

          To put that much time into something and say you don’t like, obviously it capture that person’s attention well beyond it’s intended shelf life. How can anyone improve on something that captured someone’s attention for four fucking years of playtime.

          • @ipitco@lemmybefree.net
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            12 months ago

            Streamers have a good life

            Unless you’re handicapped or unable to work for some reason and get a passive revenue that allows you to live, i’m not sure how people can do this

      • @SirQuack@feddit.nl
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        I did this with Garry’s Mod, writing gamemodes and occasionally testing if it works.

        Back before GMod 11 the game startup time was atrocious, so I just kept it running.

        But in the end, it was about 5k hours

    • jawa22
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      12 months ago

      I have much more played time on EverQuest, but I’ve been playing that game for 26 years, so…

  • @cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk
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    72 months ago

    When I see reviews like this, I assume they’ve just played the game too much. Nothing stays fun after 30k hours, go and do something else!

  • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)
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    -22 months ago

    The thing about this meme is those people are either review bombing because “reasons”, or they are all masochists, either way I would disregard them as spam and look for better reviews.

    • snooggums
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      262 months ago

      If they typed out an explanation like the game was massively changed for the worse after the vast majority of their game time then they are probably legit. Like if there was suddenly an additional 3rd party login added, or the game became unplayable due to a bug introduced and not fixed, or something along those lines.

      Most “reasons” for players with thousands of hours tend to be pretty reasonable in my experience.

      • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)
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        11 month ago

        Sure, but then if a legit issue made the game unplayable by even the most devoted gamers, then someone with a handful of hours shouldn’t be surprised at all. Either way this meme makes zero sense.

    • @Honytawk@feddit.nl
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      12 months ago

      Review bombing is when people who did not play the game get influenced to downvote it.

      People with thousands of hours don’t fall under it.

      • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)
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        02 months ago

        If a group of people are influenced by whatever, and suddenly write a bunch of negative reviews I would consider that a review bomb if they played 0 hours, or 10k hours. Adding the weird stipulation that it needs to be people that never played it is not a requirement I’ve ever heard. Now is it more likely that the trolls will be people who haven’t played, absolutely, because the low cost (nothing) of doing so while the people that play games are actually gaming.

        Review bombing is a coordinated online campaign where a large group of people post a deluge of negative reviews for a product, service, or business, often with the intent to harm its reputation or sales. This tactic is usually employed as a form of protest, coercion, or even just trolling, and is often seen in response to perceived issues with the product or its creators.

        • Googles stupid AI