why removed time played?

[dorkenstein]

reviews don't show hours plays anymore. hard to tell which positive reviews are legit or not

[Ogami]

But they do? I still see the "xx hours on record" on every review.


For example: https://prnt.sc/7hceuX4lbZHl

[Ben Lubar]

Reviews of DLCs don't show time played because Steam doesn't track time played for DLCs.

[dorkenstein]

Originally posted by Ogami:

But they do? I still see the "xx hours on record" on every review.
:lunar2019deadpanpig:

For example: https://prnt.sc/7hceuX4lbZHl

can you see them on this game's reviews?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2933620/Call_of_Duty_Black_Ops_6/

[Kargor]

Originally posted by PyrrGunk:

Originally posted by Ogami:

But they do? I still see the "xx hours on record" on every review.
:lunar2019deadpanpig:

For example: https://prnt.sc/7hceuX4lbZHl

can you see them on this game's reviews?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2933620/Call_of_Duty_Black_Ops_6/

Again, it's possible that this is a DLC behind the scenes.

[dorkenstein]

Originally posted by Kargor:

Originally posted by PyrrGunk:

can you see them on this game's reviews?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2933620/Call_of_Duty_Black_Ops_6/

Again, it's possible that this is a DLC behind the scenes.

it's not a DLC. it's the main game.

[BJWyler]

Originally posted by PyrrGunk:

Originally posted by Kargor:

Again, it's possible that this is a DLC behind the scenes.

it's not a DLC. it's the main game.

It's a version upgrade, bud.

[dorkenstein]

Originally posted by BJWyler:

Originally posted by PyrrGunk:

it's not a DLC. it's the main game.

It's a version upgrade, bud.

Originally posted by BJWyler:

Originally posted by PyrrGunk:

it's not a DLC. it's the main game.

It's a version upgrade, bud.

ok, bud, show me the main game page with hours played

[Ogami]

The problem is ACTIVISION with their dumb overlaying launcher for all COD releases.
It counts the playtime for the launcher with all the games under it instead of the Black Ops 6 game which gets treated like a DLC even though its not.
That also leads to problems with refunds since the automatic system counts the playtime on the Activision launcher and not the individual games.
Threads with that problem come up regularly on the forums.
Its just how Activision set this whole thing up that treats BO 6 as a DLC in the Steam system.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by PyrrGunk:

Originally posted by BJWyler:

It's a version upgrade, bud.

Originally posted by BJWyler:

It's a version upgrade, bud.

ok, bud, show me the main game page with hours played

It's this - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1938090/Call_of_Duty/
or
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2933620/Call_of_Duty_Black_Ops_6/

But it looks to be a specific issue with that game, with a weird way of how its configured with the DLC

Hard to tell as they did something funky with that game, there are no forums or anything for black ops 6, and forum appid redirects, but its not a change on steam

[Kargor]

Originally posted by Brian9824:

Hard to tell as they did something funky with that game, there are no forums or anything for black ops 6, and forum appid redirects, but its not a change on steam

No surprise -- as far as I know, DLCs have no forum, and if the thing is actually a DLC behind the scenes...

[HikariLight]

DLCs and version upgrades are considered part of the base game in regards to the Time Played.

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by PyrrGunk:

Originally posted by Kargor:

Again, it's possible that this is a DLC behind the scenes.

it's not a DLC. it's the main game.

The game is executed as DLC because Activision have made the Call of Duty launcher the standalone appID so every product contained within (MW2, MW3, BO6+....) that runs through the launcher is considered DLC.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

The CoD HQ is the "base" game for all the titles inside the HQ.

Play time is only tracked on the HQ itself.

The forums are also tied to the HQ and Activision stopped caring to make sub-forums for their other titles in the HQ back when WZ2 launched.

[Kargor]

It's certainly an interesting setup. The game looks like a normal game when it comes to the shop page; it doesn't even have the usual "requires the base game ... to play", and on first glance, I can't figure out SteamDB for it either. I don't own it so I can't look at my own output for it (because fringe cases are always interesting :-))

Regardless, Activision seems to have figured out things that almost feel like abuse :-) I hope this kind of setup doesn't become popular, as it (probably) makes things like refunds more complicated when all your games from a publisher are actually DLCs so the game time is all mashed together into one "launcher game".

I kind of got the idea of doing this back on things like the Sega Classics, where they had an emulator "game" and DLCs with the "ROMs", but I think Activision is taking it too far... and, more importantly, the way Sega set it up didn't try to hide this.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

They've been working on the HQ for years, since MW19 and WZ with their HQ v1. They finally got it to where they want it.

They at least uncoupled the older games from the HQ v1.