does steam count witcher 3 hours while playing offline?

[Adros]

I read that it only counts to some games. Im mobile right now and i dont have internet since three days ago, so ive been playing lots. Im wondering if the hours played will be updated when i will be finally able to connect.

[Sig]

No it doesn't count the hours you have played with steam in offline mode, but you will still get achievements, they will appear in the activity the next time you go online.

[Adros]

Originally posted by Sigma:

No it doesn't count the hours you have played with steam in offline mode, but you will still get achievements, they will appear in the activity the next time you go online.

oh it's a shame. thank you though.

[BLiNDMaNKiND]

i saw this for myself, when i play offline over steam -> it count hours for gameplay, when i play over the .exe from witcher 3 folder -> it does not count hours to gameplay in steam

[Adros]

Originally posted by BLiNDMaNKiND:

i saw this for myself, when i play offline over steam -> it count hours for gameplay, when i play over the .exe from witcher 3 folder -> it does not count hours to gameplay in steam

So I should open steam, open the game on the library instead of just opening it from the .exe?

[BLiNDMaNKiND]

so it work for me
since i know it, i alltime start witcher 3 over over steam, that i can see, how much i played^^
but sometimes, when i played offline and had like 100h and then i start the game when im online, then sometimes some hours missed and show in steam like 96h ;s

[Sig]

Originally posted by BLiNDMaNKiND:

i saw this for myself, when i play offline over steam -> it count hours for gameplay, when i play over the .exe from witcher 3 folder -> it does not count hours to gameplay in steam

When you say offline you mean going to the top left menu > Steam > Go offline > Restart in offline mode? because if by offline you mean switching to "offline" on the friends tab, steam will be still connected to its servers.

[BDK]

No and also, who cares?

[Adros]

Originally posted by BDK:

No and also, who cares?

I'm asking, so I care.

I'm wondering because I know how many hours the game takes, so I like to know how much left of the game.

No reason to be stupid. Jeez.

[Wolf iz 4 Fite]

Originally posted by Adrien.:

I read that it only counts to some games. Im mobile right now and i dont have internet since three days ago, so ive been playing lots. Im wondering if the hours played will be updated when i will be finally able to connect.

Steam may not track your play time. But the game does. If you go into the options? I believe you can find total playtime for that save file. Can't really recall exactly where it is but if you do some digging im sure you can find it. It lists your playtime in days instead of hours. I have the GOG version of Witcher 3 and ran it through steam. The game told me I had 250+ hours in it. XD. Hope this helps.

But your overall playtime will vary depending on how many optional sidequests you do. I will say that you can expect the main story to take anywhere from 30-40 hours to complete. And I believe that number may be lowballing it a bit.

[Adros]

Originally posted by Cat iz 4 Fite:

Originally posted by Adrien.:

I read that it only counts to some games. Im mobile right now and i dont have internet since three days ago, so ive been playing lots. Im wondering if the hours played will be updated when i will be finally able to connect.

Steam may not track your play time. But the game does. If you go into the options? I believe you can find total playtime for that save file. Can't really recall exactly where it is but if you do some digging im sure you can find it. It lists your playtime in days instead of hours. I have the GOG version of Witcher 3 and ran it through steam. The game told me I had 250+ hours in it. XD. Hope this helps.

But your overall playtime will vary depending on how many optional sidequests you do. I will say that you can expect the main story to take anywhere from 30-40 hours to complete. And I believe that number may be lowballing it a bit.

You helped me a lot! Totally forgot the save file thing. I calculated the playtime by summing, since it doesn't really say how long I played just the hours (am/pm), but it's enough to know.

My friend did almost everything and have 200+, so I'm thinking that I'll get something close to that since I'm trying to do all side quests and contracts. I'm just skipping some treasure hunts because the mayority seems so useless.

Do you know if after the main quest is all done, can you get to still be playing, or it's just over? I guess Witcher 2 was like this, you couldn't continue exploring after ending all the main quest. I really want to comeplete it 100% some day, but the main story is so interesting I just don't wanna wait to find out every "?" of the game XD

[v0]

Well AFAICT steam only counts game EXE running time anyway. Just fire game up for 3 hrs but don't actually play and you'll recover those lost logged hours :P

Exploration, treasure hunts, monster contracts still available after main story's over. (And most of those '?' in Skellige just loot lying out there).

[Adros]

Originally posted by v0:

Well AFAICT steam only counts game EXE running time anyway. Just fire game up for 3 hrs but don't actually play and you'll recover those lost logged hours :P

Exploration, treasure hunts, monster contracts still available after main story's over. (And most of those '?' in Skellige just loot lying out there).

Hahahaha, I actually thought of that, but instead of 3 hours I must just open it for 7 hours XD

Yay, that's nice to hear. Thank you!