How do some users have over 1 million hours playtime?

[Nightweaver20xx]

That's actually temporally impossible, because that's longer than the lifespan of a human (114 years). The highest playtime on Steam Ladder is 1.7 million hours! That's 195 YEARS! Somebody explain this to me.

[Zucht]

Nguyên văn bởi MalikQayum:

the more games you have + the powerful your pc is, the more games you can "launch" so you could launch 3000 games for 1 hour that would be 3000 hours. do that for 24 hours and then 7 days and you should hit around half a million hours.

you don't actually have to install the games, as you can use tools that will run idle games that are not installed that you own.

This is a lie, you can only do 32 games at a time.

[Zucht]

Nguyên văn bởi The HopelessGamer™:

They cheated. Simple. There are ways of spoofing pretty much anything on steam.

How is that cheating anyways? Hours mean nothing on Steam.

Who cares if people idle,. Steam doesn't care and neither should its users.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Nguyên văn bởi Zucht:

Nguyên văn bởi The HopelessGamer™:

They cheated. Simple. There are ways of spoofing pretty much anything on steam.

How is that cheating anyways? Hours mean nothing on Steam.

Who cares if people idle,. Steam doesn't care and neither should its users.

Pretty much, no one really cares if anyone idles their games, even Steam, GoG, PSN, Xbox, and etc doesn't cares if people idle their games.

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

Nguyên văn bởi M:

they are just idling all games to get attention.

so they can post "funny" reviews" saying a game is not that good, while they have 13.000 (fake) gameplay hours.
other people idle "steam" for 10.000+ hours. also just for attention.

nothing really new, i guess they just don't understand how pointless that is.

Don't lump everyone into the same category when you don't actually know...

And just because you think it's pointless doesn't mean we do. Much like there are people out there that think video games are pointless, that doesn't make them right either.

[The HopelessGamer™]

Nguyên văn bởi Zucht:

Nguyên văn bởi The HopelessGamer™:

They cheated. Simple. There are ways of spoofing pretty much anything on steam.

How is that cheating anyways? Hours mean nothing on Steam.

Who cares if people idle,. Steam doesn't care and neither should its users.

When i said cheating i did not mean it as in "Those people are bad, they cheated in hours", basically saying they did not get those hours legitimately. I have nothing against people who use tools to change things when they do not harm others.

[IFIYGD]

Nguyên văn bởi M:

they are just idling all games to get attention. <snip snip snippety snip>

Not all. Some, maybe. But not all

Some people use idling SW to get Trading Card drops for Trading or Selling.
And some never leave reviews of any kind. They're just there to get the cards.
Which racks up a lot of hours, while the SW idles 32 games at once.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[IFIYGD]

Nguyên văn bởi M:

Nguyên văn bởi IFIYGD:

Some people use idling SW to get Trading Card drops for Trading or Selling.
And some never leave reviews of any kind. They're just there to get the cards.
Which racks up a lot of hours, while the SW idles 32 games at once.

i have 6000+ games and idle them all, too for cards. but i'm far away from gameplay hours like this.

if people have 20.000hours+ gameplay hours overall it's 100% attention grabbing.

Eh, I don;t have nearly as many games. I did used to idle games for cards, but stopped after getting enough badges to level up. The cost for having the computer on constantly vs. the Steam wallet funds from selling excess cards was not worth continuing.

But just because you think people are idling "just for attention" does not make it so. A bit of confirmation bias there, friend. People do a lot of weird things for a lot of weird reasons. If people looking for attention bothers you, stop giving them attention, perhaps? Problem solved.
Lots of other things to worry about these days.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

Nguyên văn bởi M:

so you can have an opinion, but others can't i see. :winter2019joyfultearsyul:

and sorry, if you think people with 1 million hours, have it because of regular playtime that's just delusional.

You can have an opinion..... You just proclain that "they" (taken as everyone) that idles is doing it for "attention" your own words, which is 100% wrong.

I idle while I play games, I could care less about who knows and I don't go around saying "ahahah, I have more hours than you" or making stupid reviews with large amounts of hours on them.

[Nightweaver20xx]

I appreciate all the discussion this has spawned. I think my question has been sufficiently answered, however. Thank you.

[nagy fekete trombitás]

Your welcome!

[Win2000Fan]

If they really have this many hours then they have no life. If they tried to cheat for this stupid amount of time then they still have no life. I love computer games but have a life well beyond them. Maybe an eighth or less of my life is spent on these stupid games and I do not live in the basement of my mummies house.

[Zucht]

Nguyên văn bởi Oldestdude51:

If they really have this many hours then they have no life. If they tried to cheat for this stupid amount of time then they still have no life. I love computer games but have a life well beyond them. Maybe an eighth or less of my life is spent on these stupid games and I do not live in the basement of my mummies house.

Well aren't you special.

Don't judge others because of how much they play video games... you're part of the problem just like those who claim video games cause violence.

Stop it.

[Lost]

Nguyên văn bởi Zucht:

Nguyên văn bởi Oldestdude51:

If they really have this many hours then they have no life. If they tried to cheat for this stupid amount of time then they still have no life. I love computer games but have a life well beyond them. Maybe an eighth or less of my life is spent on these stupid games and I do not live in the basement of my mummies house.

Well aren't you special.

Don't judge others because of how much they play video games... you're part of the problem just like those who claim video games cause violence.

Stop it.

hes a miserable old fart online, what do u expect... look at his profile

[Freddan]

Can someone send me the ladder? i really want to se it

[Nico]

Nguyên văn bởi IFIYGD:

Eh, I don;t have nearly as many games. I did used to idle games for cards, but stopped after getting enough badges to level up. The cost for having the computer on constantly vs. the Steam wallet funds from selling excess cards was not worth continuing.

You can simulate to run the games in your phone, in case it's on constantly