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Koriana Feb 27, 2018 @ 2:35pm
Cumulative Hours Played
Hello!

I was wondering if we could ever get a cumulative total of hours we have played games across the duration of our steam account available to us? I was made aware that some third party sites may have this, but I think it would be awesome to see this on our account itself when we look in the Games tab, and it shows all the hours total per game. Would this be possible to implement for those of us who are curious how much of our lives have been devoted here?
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Jerry Feb 27, 2018 @ 2:58pm 
The problem about this is, that every game counts the time, it is played. And with players, who leave two or more titles running in the background, this can sum up to unreasonable amounts.
If you look for it, you will find players, who have played more than 50 days within the last 2 weeks. You would not want cases like this as a permanent statistic.
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Koriana Feb 27, 2018 @ 3:54pm 
That's just a few people. Why should a few ruin it for the rest of us? I'd like to see that metric myself.
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JPMcMillen Feb 27, 2018 @ 4:16pm 
Originally posted by Fatality:
That's just a few people. Why should a few ruin it for the rest of us? I'd like to see that metric myself.

Because that's how many things in life work.

There are already people that want to be able to hide their playtime from everyone (themselves included), so they really don't want to know what their total for all games are.
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Hextravert Feb 27, 2018 @ 7:04pm 
Great suggestion.

And of course it would be possible. They just haven't done it yet.

That's how many things in life work. :AWESOME:

Originally posted by Fatality:
Hello!

I was wondering if we could ever get a cumulative total of hours we have played games across the duration of our steam account available to us? I was made aware that some third party sites may have this, but I think it would be awesome to see this on our account itself when we look in the Games tab, and it shows all the hours total per game. Would this be possible to implement for those of us who are curious how much of our lives have been devoted here?
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B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t Feb 28, 2018 @ 7:04am 
I for one would love this as I use like 3-ish third party sites to keep track on my total gaming hours since it's the main point of counting time in the first place, I'd love for Valve to implement this feature in like Xfire had where it showed the [total time at the bottom of your games] and the individual gaming scores above it.
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Jerry Feb 28, 2018 @ 7:17am 
Originally posted by Fatality:
That's just a few people. Why should a few ruin it for the rest of us?

On the other hand, there's only a few people, who would actually want such a feature. An estimated 99.93% of all users won't see a benefit in the information, that they played 1 year, 7 months, 1 week, 2 days and 15 hours on their account.
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Koriana Feb 28, 2018 @ 9:04am 
Originally posted by Jerry:
An estimated 99.93% of all users won't see a benefit in the information, that they played 1 year, 7 months, 1 week, 2 days and 15 hours on their account.

Your statistic has no data backing up. It looks arbitrary, and therefore probably is. Where is your source, and that source's data pool?
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