Is it possible to hack hours in Steam? Just asking.

[rabidkitty]

A friend of mine has more than 2k hours in the last 2 weeks, and some games with more than 1k hours, but no achivements. Is it bugged or what?

[Ogami]

He most likely using Idle Master or a similar programm that tells Steam a game is running even if its not even installed. You can run up to 30 games or so at once like that. Its to farm the trading cards of those games without needing to install/play them.
Since Steam counts each games time , if you you let 30 games run for 10 hours , Steam will show you a 300 hour combined playtime on your profile.

Its not "hacking" nor is it forbidden but also not that useful apart from getting the trading cards you would get anyway a bit faster. It also messes up your real playtime stats but some people dont care about that.


As for the game with 1000 hours, its possible that he just let the launcher or similar run in the background to collect game hours,or its a game that only unlocks achievements in certain modes.
I have a lot of time in many Paradox games but barely any or none achievements since they unlock only in hardcore mode which prevent manual saving, something that i hate.
Could be something simple like that.

[Sazzouu]

1 Game active = 1 hour of playtime per hour
2 Games active = 2 hours of playtime per hour
10 Games active = 10 hourse of playtime per hour
....

See the trick?
He uses a programm / script to run all of his games at once even though they are not actually running, so he farms multiple hours per hour (although it sounds stupid af)

[stew-iwnl-]

Is there any type of way people are able to get a lot of hours into one game specifically? I played with a guy recently who had 30,000hrs in csgo, he was terrible, along with other tens of thousands of hours in other games aswell, how he do dis?

[rabidkitty]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Even Skyrim, at the very beginning you get an achiv, he doesn't even have that, totally ridiculous man. Thanks for all the info :D

[rabidkitty]

Originally posted by B34tZ:

1 Game active = 1 hour of playtime per hour
2 Games active = 2 hours of playtime per hour
10 Games active = 10 hourse of playtime per hour
....

See the trick?
He uses a programm / script to run all of his games at once even though they are not actually running, so he farms multiple hours per hour (although it sounds stupid af)

It is stupid :D