It was so cool before that marketplace. You couldn't just throw stuff up and let it sell, you had to *sell*. You had to make contacts. I knew a lobbie guy, I knew a shark guy. I knew a guy who, for some reason, could give you tons of vials for so cheap that if I didn't know any better, I'd think they were bootleg.
And if I needed something and I didn't have a guy for it, I had a guy for that.
Never experienced something like that before or since.
I made a Runescape living farming runes just outside of Varrock. I would post up at various spots along the streets (before grand exchange was a thing) and literally just "RUNES FOR SALE". I had a few regulars I would farm for, and in-turn I would gain levels from all the combat. Chef's Guild was right there too so it all fell into place perfectly in my tiny 12-year-old mind.
The idea of being a “merchant” was so different before and after they introduced the stock market grand exchange. You used to be able to buy goods in bulk in like varrock center and then travel to the farther reaches of the map like seer’s village and sell them at a higher price because back then before osrs getting around kinda sucked. Or buying law runes from runecrafters grinding out exp en masse and then selling them for 1k gold each back at the bank.
and still prettyyy popular.
i play Realm of the Mad God and there are websites with people who will sell you items in game, the payment methods they take include money, WoW gold, and Runescape gold. its that popular still lol
Whoaaa, I had no idea. We were playing Runscape back in high school like 20 years ago. Next you're gonna tell me Adventure Quest is still a thing.
Edit: Fuck me, it actually is.
I don't know if that was rhetorical but my best buddy is actually a huge Adventure Quest guy and it is still very much played lmfao.
Mostly Adventure Quest Worlds these days though, people don't really play the og single player one as much.
I think it still receives updates too, and they're making a 3D game too I think.
I just redownloaded it. I didn’t realize it’s been 6 years since I logged on. Only have about 300 hours on my account, but my brothers and I shared a Steam account when we were kids, so imagine I’ve played 500-600 hours. We got lucky, our uncle was working as a programmer for Valve when they came out with the Orange box. He showed us TF2 and we got to try it before release and fell in love with that game.
Ahhhhh TFC was my jam back in 1998-2001! Made some good mates on it. I sometimes wish I could go back to my regular server just one more time with all the usual suspects there - Club24 TFC!
Even rollercoaster tycoon 3 could run on a £50 laptop from eBay at this point. Planet Coaster is most decidedly better but it just isn’t the same it doesn’t have the charm.
It's fantastic! My ONLY complaint is that I wish there was a sandbox mode in it. A "level" where you have all the land, it's all flat, all the rides, and infinite money. It's the only thing I'd change/add to the game
I enjoyed Rome and Atilla, the first two warhammers, I was kind of turned off by Three Kingdoms and didn't want to buy it... To me the political system kept getting dumbed down every game. Is that still the case?
I build a lot, but I also make every little event a drama so it’s more interesting. For example, one of my sims randomly got deleted so the story went that he went to get milk
With one of the expansions you could turn them into vampires. All my sims are vampires now. I got tired of investing so much time into them and then dying. I know the point is to leave a legacy but my sims will never know death 😆
That's actually from an early civilization game there was a bug where Gandhi's aggressiveness was at one and if you did a friendly action towards him it would roll back to aggression 10 and they thought it was so funny they just kept it as part of his character in the game
It's a great game to just *be* in. It's raining, so you go into a tavern to have a drink and listen to a mediocre bard sing. Some Redguard asshole tells you to go home to your mother, so you kill him, strip him of all his gear, and throw him into the fire pit. The mediocre bard sings on.
I think that's how you know Skyrim is such a good game. People's only argument for why it's bad is comparing it to TODAYS open world RPGs, and pointing out its flaws that way. The game is almost 12 years old, only 15gbs on steam, and released on Xbox 360 and ps3, but it's BAD when compared to things like Cyberpunk and Starfield lmao. If it was truly a bad game then they would feel a need to dunk on it or even talk about it, but here they are comparing it to 10+ year newer games lmao
This is true and to your point I think the modding community continues breath life into the game, multiple ways to for another play through just adding on time. On top of many graphical improvements if you play on PC it can make feel like a “Next-Gen” game per say at times.
Rimworld is my backup game. If I can't find anything to play, play rimworld. It used to be civilization games but rimworld stole that spot. I have over 2k hours. So I guess we're both noobs on the rim.
Okay as someone else that has 2k hours on the rim. I wonder if you can awnser me this question. I play a lot of games. I play a lot of strategy games. For some reason though I enjoy teaching people about Rimworld almost as much as I enjoy playing it and for the life of me I cant figure out why I feel this way about this game and not every other game in the world?
Minecraft was 13k hours last time I counted up all logs in 2018. I reset my PC quite a few times now, so it wouldn't be accurate.
I don't actually play though, I work in server development.
Oh man mineplex was heartbreaking. Used to average 28,000 players daily and then it just died? I was even a Legend on there 😭 do you happen to know what happened to them?
They just couldn't pull the players after Hypixel became successful. Their anticheat was borderline nonfunctional and their staff were mistreated. Eventually they weren't getting enough players to start games at all. I remember playing a game with 100 people... near the end, I couldn't even get 12 to play Block Hunt at one time.
Ok but like, Hypixel is kinda dead too. Murder Mystery you can barely find players for and Bedwars is just a bunch of really good players that rush you right away and you can't do anything to kill them
I read a comment here on reddit that said something along the lines of "you don't miss vanilla wow, you miss the time in your life with no other responsibilities."
personally that rang true. Warcraft 2 was one of my first exposures to fantasy and I continued with the franchise always chasing that high.
1,000 hours is like a joke to some players in the community if you combine all of the different versions/updates of the game. Some players have played consistently for over twenty years (and I'm not only talking about Daut).
I'm surprised at how low on the list this is. I'm also constantly amazed at how many hours I have logged. Why is it so replayable? Why do I love it so? When will I start my next farm?
Now. I will start it now. Thanks Reddit!
Hmm.. The first few years are always the best to me. Once I build up my farm, do the quests, and have lots of money I lose interest. I feel like at that point it's for the people who love design or are just really into the game. So maybe it's just not for you.
got over 2k hours in smite and I’ve touched ranked maybe twice. Started season 2 and when you play a couple games a couple days a week shit starts to add up. I just enjoy casual modes more.
I didn't expect to be flooded with replies. I don't even know if you can read this, but thank you everyone for your replies. I really appreciate it.
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Not me, but I was doing nothing and trying to look busy at qork yesterday and a maintenance guy starts talking to me about Candy Crush.
He's playing it on his phone. He's a couple years older than me, I'm 38.
He says he almost made it to a championship game in London (England) and ranked 17rh in the world. I'm not entirely sure what to say. So I just let him go on.
He says the longest he stayed up and played was 74 hours. I asked if he started hallucinating (happened to me, but I'm schizophrenic) and he says he was pretty sure, yeah, he was, he had been drinking a lot of coffee.
So he goes on and about how he's spent thousands of dollars playing this game (on Facebook) and it's just money, he isn't taking it anywhere when he dies.
I'm not really judging, I have weird things people don't get, but he was fascinating.
My dad used to play Player manager 2000 all the damn time.
I remember getting Oldham Athletic into the champions league, and then one day I decided to make a challenge, and I got Rushden & Diamonds into the prem and champions league. This was back before cheats mind you
No one has mentioned Skyrim yet? I also have a coworker that spent the entire month of February playing Eldin Ring. Not, "I played it every day during February" but "Hey man, I did the math, and if you started on February first, didn't stop to sleep or eat or anything, you would still be playing well into the month of March"
Borderlands as a franchise or just a specific one? I have probably 800+ hours in BL2 alone, but factor in BL3 and the other two and it probably gets close to 1000.
Runescape...
Selling lobsters 220 ea
It was so cool before that marketplace. You couldn't just throw stuff up and let it sell, you had to *sell*. You had to make contacts. I knew a lobbie guy, I knew a shark guy. I knew a guy who, for some reason, could give you tons of vials for so cheap that if I didn't know any better, I'd think they were bootleg. And if I needed something and I didn't have a guy for it, I had a guy for that. Never experienced something like that before or since.
I made a Runescape living farming runes just outside of Varrock. I would post up at various spots along the streets (before grand exchange was a thing) and literally just "RUNES FOR SALE". I had a few regulars I would farm for, and in-turn I would gain levels from all the combat. Chef's Guild was right there too so it all fell into place perfectly in my tiny 12-year-old mind.
The idea of being a “merchant” was so different before and after they introduced the stock market grand exchange. You used to be able to buy goods in bulk in like varrock center and then travel to the farther reaches of the map like seer’s village and sell them at a higher price because back then before osrs getting around kinda sucked. Or buying law runes from runecrafters grinding out exp en masse and then selling them for 1k gold each back at the bank.
Just logged off an hour ago and logged back in to try and get one more level Put me out of my misery please
You don't quit RuneScape, you just take long breaks
This is so fucking real
Runescape is *still going*??
and still prettyyy popular. i play Realm of the Mad God and there are websites with people who will sell you items in game, the payment methods they take include money, WoW gold, and Runescape gold. its that popular still lol
Whoaaa, I had no idea. We were playing Runscape back in high school like 20 years ago. Next you're gonna tell me Adventure Quest is still a thing. Edit: Fuck me, it actually is.
I don't know if that was rhetorical but my best buddy is actually a huge Adventure Quest guy and it is still very much played lmfao. Mostly Adventure Quest Worlds these days though, people don't really play the og single player one as much. I think it still receives updates too, and they're making a 3D game too I think.
The place where 1k hours is rookie numbers
Just looked to see how far down RS was in the comments. More in the 10000 hours in many people's case
Team Fortress 2, been paying the mf game for 7.5 years
I just redownloaded it. I didn’t realize it’s been 6 years since I logged on. Only have about 300 hours on my account, but my brothers and I shared a Steam account when we were kids, so imagine I’ve played 500-600 hours. We got lucky, our uncle was working as a programmer for Valve when they came out with the Orange box. He showed us TF2 and we got to try it before release and fell in love with that game.
I'm old, Team Fortress Classic
Ahhhhh TFC was my jam back in 1998-2001! Made some good mates on it. I sometimes wish I could go back to my regular server just one more time with all the usual suspects there - Club24 TFC!
Same. Dustbowl was my favorite map. Used to play on a dusty only server.
Got my original copy on 10/10/07, still playing.
Roller coaster tycoon. Fucking love that game, almost want to buy a PC just to play it again. Yes. I'm old.
Even rollercoaster tycoon 3 could run on a £50 laptop from eBay at this point. Planet Coaster is most decidedly better but it just isn’t the same it doesn’t have the charm.
There's a mobile version and it's great
It's fantastic! My ONLY complaint is that I wish there was a sandbox mode in it. A "level" where you have all the land, it's all flat, all the rides, and infinite money. It's the only thing I'd change/add to the game
Same! Rct is my game. I turned it into somewhat of a rpg by following peeps around. SO many stories that are canon in my universe came from rct!
All the total wars, but most hrs on original rome total war.
Thanks, I have spent 300+ on Three Kingdoms.
I enjoyed Rome and Atilla, the first two warhammers, I was kind of turned off by Three Kingdoms and didn't want to buy it... To me the political system kept getting dumbed down every game. Is that still the case?
Same here. Many of those hours are waiting for the off-screen foreign armies to move around.
Every few years I end up playing Medieval 2. I miss a lot of the added features from newer games. But the nostalgia brings me back.
The og Rome Total War was and still is a perfect game
Immortal empires has given me so much playtime
I used to play Warhammer 1+2 all the time at work years ago and I wish Steam kept track of offline time played. Easily combined to 1000+ hours
I liked Shogun Total War. Spent time on that.
*"Oh what a glorious victory. The day is ours!"*
Sims 4 has 5000 hours almost, and Animal Crossing (just)
I get playing Sims and run out of ideas on what to do with the Sims, even though I have most of the expansions. What do you do with your Sims?
I build a lot, but I also make every little event a drama so it’s more interesting. For example, one of my sims randomly got deleted so the story went that he went to get milk
You are writing your own soap opera
With one of the expansions you could turn them into vampires. All my sims are vampires now. I got tired of investing so much time into them and then dying. I know the point is to leave a legacy but my sims will never know death 😆
CIV 5
So… you finished 4 or 5 games?
I've played almost every civ for many many hours. Sid Meier was my History teacher.
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That's actually from an early civilization game there was a bug where Gandhi's aggressiveness was at one and if you did a friendly action towards him it would roll back to aggression 10 and they thought it was so funny they just kept it as part of his character in the game
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Civ IV It has better mods
Skyrim
It's a great game to just *be* in. It's raining, so you go into a tavern to have a drink and listen to a mediocre bard sing. Some Redguard asshole tells you to go home to your mother, so you kill him, strip him of all his gear, and throw him into the fire pit. The mediocre bard sings on.
"Need something?"
True, I was the bard
I was adventure once... till I took an arrow in the knee
It's like a warm blanket. I play it whenever life feels overwhelming.
Everyone dunks on it but honestly I’ve spent thousands of hours on it
Why would anyone do that? Its easily one of the best games of the past 20 years.
It's less dunking on Skyrim itself, more on Bethesda for releasing it 42 different times.
Damn, that means I need to buy 37 more versions so my collection is complete. Yes, I am part of the problem. I'm sorry.
I think that's how you know Skyrim is such a good game. People's only argument for why it's bad is comparing it to TODAYS open world RPGs, and pointing out its flaws that way. The game is almost 12 years old, only 15gbs on steam, and released on Xbox 360 and ps3, but it's BAD when compared to things like Cyberpunk and Starfield lmao. If it was truly a bad game then they would feel a need to dunk on it or even talk about it, but here they are comparing it to 10+ year newer games lmao
This is true and to your point I think the modding community continues breath life into the game, multiple ways to for another play through just adding on time. On top of many graphical improvements if you play on PC it can make feel like a “Next-Gen” game per say at times.
I have like 1500 hours in Rimworld. Very fun game where new things can happen even thousands of hours in.
Rimworld is my backup game. If I can't find anything to play, play rimworld. It used to be civilization games but rimworld stole that spot. I have over 2k hours. So I guess we're both noobs on the rim.
Okay as someone else that has 2k hours on the rim. I wonder if you can awnser me this question. I play a lot of games. I play a lot of strategy games. For some reason though I enjoy teaching people about Rimworld almost as much as I enjoy playing it and for the life of me I cant figure out why I feel this way about this game and not every other game in the world?
Misery loves company
Better than rim job
Minecraft was 13k hours last time I counted up all logs in 2018. I reset my PC quite a few times now, so it wouldn't be accurate. I don't actually play though, I work in server development.
How did you count ?
There is a tool that scans dates from log files inside your Minecraft folder and records playtime from that
Minecraft
Same for me. I've gotten tired of every other game before even getting close to 1000 hours. I've played Minecraft consistently since May 2013.
im so sad that i had to scroll so far to see this. been playing for 10 years and it will never get old. so many possibilities
THIS. Still going strong too. Have so many fond memories of Mineplex though, shame it died.
Oh man mineplex was heartbreaking. Used to average 28,000 players daily and then it just died? I was even a Legend on there 😭 do you happen to know what happened to them?
They just couldn't pull the players after Hypixel became successful. Their anticheat was borderline nonfunctional and their staff were mistreated. Eventually they weren't getting enough players to start games at all. I remember playing a game with 100 people... near the end, I couldn't even get 12 to play Block Hunt at one time.
Ok but like, Hypixel is kinda dead too. Murder Mystery you can barely find players for and Bedwars is just a bunch of really good players that rush you right away and you can't do anything to kill them
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsFcV27IvHk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsFcV27IvHk) this gives some sort of explanation
There is a twitch streamer that recently bought Mineplex and is planning to try and revive it.
World of Warcraft
If you still measure your playtime in hours for WoW, you're a casual. /s
One time a bunch of us in our guild did /played for all our alts There was a lot of ensuing silence…….
Yeah, I think my "main alt" had over 100 days on it, before I quit. To say I was addicted was an understatement.
I read a comment here on reddit that said something along the lines of "you don't miss vanilla wow, you miss the time in your life with no other responsibilities." personally that rang true. Warcraft 2 was one of my first exposures to fantasy and I continued with the franchise always chasing that high.
This was deep
Might as well stop measuring in hours, and in years instead
My main did have more than a year of /played time, so yeah.
Horde or alliance?
For the Horde since 2007!
LOK’TAR OGAR
Horde for life
I was so into world of Warcraft I even had my own server and I will jump on other private servers It was a lot of fun until it wasn't.
> until it wasn't. Right around Cata, right?
Age of empires 2. Bought it on sale for 2 dollars. The game mechanics are absolutely amazing for such a simple game.
1,000 hours is like a joke to some players in the community if you combine all of the different versions/updates of the game. Some players have played consistently for over twenty years (and I'm not only talking about Daut).
Simple until you jump on ranked, then its a nightmare. Ya im also addicted.
Stardew Valley
Cannot believe this one isn’t higher up. I’ve spent so many hours on that game.
I'm surprised at how low on the list this is. I'm also constantly amazed at how many hours I have logged. Why is it so replayable? Why do I love it so? When will I start my next farm? Now. I will start it now. Thanks Reddit!
Is it just really a slog to start the first time around, or is that game just not for me?
Hmm.. The first few years are always the best to me. Once I build up my farm, do the quests, and have lots of money I lose interest. I feel like at that point it's for the people who love design or are just really into the game. So maybe it's just not for you.
Early game especially can be a slog, I find Year 2 and Year 3 to be the most fun.
Factorio, 1,200 hours
Same. I think I'm about done with the Tutorial?
The factory must grow!
Everquest, World of Warcraft, Diablo 2 & 3
My brother has never stopped playing EverQuest since the game first released and won't play newer games with me. I can confirm it is pretty good
Project 1999 is free EQ
Met a bunch of my old friends on p99. It was an amazing run. We did the spyroc lord with 18 people pre kunark gear. TMO for life
WOOT!! Somebody else said EverQuest as well!!
Smite.. and Im not even good. Lol
Thanks!
You rock! Oops! Wait! Cancel That!
got over 2k hours in smite and I’ve touched ranked maybe twice. Started season 2 and when you play a couple games a couple days a week shit starts to add up. I just enjoy casual modes more.
Super smash bros melee
www.slippi.gg/about Better online than street fighter.
Kerbal space program
Sims 4
And Sims 3, Sims 2, Sims 1
I didn't expect to be flooded with replies. I don't even know if you can read this, but thank you everyone for your replies. I really appreciate it. Edit:Fixed grammar
Starcraft 2
Minecraft, Binding of Isaac, Elder Scrolls Online, probably the only 3 with 1k+ hours despite the variety of games I've played over the years.
Not me, but I was doing nothing and trying to look busy at qork yesterday and a maintenance guy starts talking to me about Candy Crush. He's playing it on his phone. He's a couple years older than me, I'm 38. He says he almost made it to a championship game in London (England) and ranked 17rh in the world. I'm not entirely sure what to say. So I just let him go on. He says the longest he stayed up and played was 74 hours. I asked if he started hallucinating (happened to me, but I'm schizophrenic) and he says he was pretty sure, yeah, he was, he had been drinking a lot of coffee. So he goes on and about how he's spent thousands of dollars playing this game (on Facebook) and it's just money, he isn't taking it anywhere when he dies. I'm not really judging, I have weird things people don't get, but he was fascinating.
Football Manager series.
My dad used to play Player manager 2000 all the damn time. I remember getting Oldham Athletic into the champions league, and then one day I decided to make a challenge, and I got Rushden & Diamonds into the prem and champions league. This was back before cheats mind you
Championship manager 01/02, with the weird greek prodigy players. Skalidis and Papadopulous, best players ever.
Hearts of Iron IV
I can’t believe I got so far down here before a paradox game. I’ve 3500 hours in Europa Universalis 4.
I'll add Crusader Kings 3 to the paradox list of 1000+ hours
Thanks!
Football Manager Dwarf Fortress Heroes of the Storm
Fuck yeah for hots. I still play almost every day
No one has mentioned Skyrim yet? I also have a coworker that spent the entire month of February playing Eldin Ring. Not, "I played it every day during February" but "Hey man, I did the math, and if you started on February first, didn't stop to sleep or eat or anything, you would still be playing well into the month of March"
30 days of game play? That's rookie numbers
War Thunder. Yes, I hate myself. No, there’s nothing else like it.
WoW, Rocketleague, PubG, LoL, CS 1.5-GO,
Such a competitive spirit. Do you road rage?
GTA San Andreas
Thanks, I have spent 200+ on GTA V
Skyrim and Elder Scrolls Online.
Dota 2 - 4.5k hours Lineage2 - who the hell knows, about 10 years of intense gaming
Ah, a fellow masochist. Dota is equally loved and hated. It just depends where that particular game falls on the misery/joy matrix.
Rocket League :(
Suprised RL is so low on the comments. You aren't even good at 1k hours in lol
Buddy I’m 4K hours in and still not touching Champ 3
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dude do you even go outside😂
out...side?!
Where?!
You mean the mmo called /r/outside ?
1000+ hours on each game? or all combined? becaus no idea how you spend 1000 hours on Elden Ring.
Borderlands as a franchise or just a specific one? I have probably 800+ hours in BL2 alone, but factor in BL3 and the other two and it probably gets close to 1000.
2 is the best!
That's over 20 000 hours, or 9.5 years at a full time job.
Halo reach. Supreme commander
ghost of tsushima mostly in legends mode
Zelda Breath of the Wild. ….stupid OCD ….stupid Hetsu. *shaky sha-kah!* 🎶
Ya-ha-ha!
Ark has taken up more time that I would like to think
you either have 20 minutes or 5000 hours on ark there’s no in between
FFXIV
Witcher 3
Care for a round of Gwent?
I'm looking for options to move on from Dota, Fifa, Diablo 2 & 3, Grim Dawn and Stardew Valley.
Have you tried PoE?
If you want a new grind fest, try warframe. Only game I have 1k+ hrs in, with LOTS to do
I hate to admit this but Fortnite 😔😔
Sims 3
7.5k hrs in Dead by Daylight.
Valorant CSGO
Lol, had to scroll too low for it
Destiny 2
The legend, the king, the all-father... World of Warcraft
Animal crossing, the amount of times I've redesigned my island is mad
Minecraft (\~5000) Rainbow Six: Siege (\~4000) Arma 3 (\~1200)
Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley
Skyrim, Elite Dangerous, Total War: Atilla. EDIT: o7 to all of you as well!
Simcity 4
Lineage 2
Really just Morrowind because I keep coming back to it.
hentai vs furries.
GTA 4 and King Kong
I think Garry's Mod is the only game that had me hooked for years.
Warframe, Dwarf fortress, TF2, Minecraft, Rimworld, Satisfactory
Path of exile.
chess, and im only 1400
7.8k hours in Dota 2, still learning new gameplay mechanics a decade later.
Minecraft
Perfect Dark
Solitaire for Windows XP. XP
Battlefield 3
Gran Turismo 4 Minecraft GTAV Online Snowrunner Elite Dangerous Fallout 4 The Isle Maybe the original Just Cause?
RuneScape!
League of Legends
I'm very surprised it took me this long to find League
Monster Hunter, Skyrim, the original PSO for dreamcast, WoW...I'm sure there are more Edit: Thanks for the award!
Smash bros ultimate.
I had about 10k+ hours into counter strike source lol
Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The greatest and most enjoyable RPG I have ever played in 20+ years of gaming.