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rivethead

rivethead

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Holy smokes. Per the comments (I haven't confirmed, but no reason to believe it's not accurate), people have spent 430,000 years worth of man-hours playing Dota 2 - longer than the existence of man!
 
ImpulsE69

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Not a single game on that list I've spent more than 20 hours in (and only a handful I've even played).
 
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I wonder if the Civ5 rankings drastically changed after the expansions.
 
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xantub

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Paradox strategy games top my list. CK2 like 400+ hours. EU4 like 200+, Victoria 2 like 150+. EU3 was probably around 200+ hours but that is not in my Steam list.
 
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Lil Frier

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I think that explains a decent reason as to why I'm not a big PC gamer. Only the two Portal games are on there that I both own AND enjoy on PC, and they have no replay value to me. The stuff I tend to play is console-centric, but some of these things (Skyrim, Fallout) work better on PC, and I'd like to get them on there during a decent sale.

Online PC gaming? That seems dead to me, as I HATE MOBAs, and I wore myself out on TF2 and CS:GO pretty quickly.
 
ImpulsE69

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Lil Frier said:
I think that explains a decent reason as to why I'm not a big PC gamer. Only the two Portal games are on there that I both own AND enjoy on PC, and they have no replay value to me. The stuff I tend to play is console-centric, but some of these things (Skyrim, Fallout) work better on PC, and I'd like to get them on there during a decent sale.

Online PC gaming? That seems dead to me, as I HATE MOBAs, and I wore myself out on TF2 and CS:GO pretty quickly.
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PC online gaming is MUCH better than console online gaming. The games aren't really different but the actual online experience is completely different. I absolutely hate console online play.
 
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Lil Frier

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ImpulsE69 said:
PC online gaming is MUCH better than console online gaming. The games aren't really different but the actual online experience is completely different. I absolutely hate console online play.
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I'm so happy to hear your opinion-based fact.

In my experience, it's the opposite. PC gaming requires me to be at a desk, or something where I have room and stability to use a mouse and keyboard, and it is a pain to have such a setup in a bedroom (unless your bedroom is large).

I absolutely hate playing my PC online because I don't have a decent setup for it, and moving to PC gaming means having to give up some of my most-played franchises (Halo, Gears, Forza). Truth be told, RCT and WoW are the only PC-exclusive games I've played and enjoyed in the past 10 years, probably. WoW's not worth the sub, and RCT isn't getting a new installment until the end of the year.

Most of my PC gaming in the past few months has just been using a wired Xbox controller on a PC, at which point I question why I'm even bothering with the PC. The answer there is obviously the price, because the games I have on Steam were all purchased because of their deep discounts (Which Microsoft needs to improve upon with the consoles).
 
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darkewaffle

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I have a hard time believing 26 million people have played DotA2 and that it has a 1:1 owns to plays ratio (or something very very close to it), that seems off. Maybe it's taken off more than I realize though.

Also I'm surprised the privacy police aren't up in arms about this :colbert:
 
rivethead

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darkewaffle said:
Also I'm surprised the privacy police aren't up in arms about this :colbert:
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That data is at such a macro level that I don't think any one person can be concerned about privacy.....not that they can't bitch about it though.
 
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darkewaffle said:
I have a hard time believing 26 million people have played DotA2 and that it has a 1:1 owns to plays ratio (or something very very close to it), that seems off. Maybe it's taken off more than I realize though.

Also I'm surprised the privacy police aren't up in arms about this :colbert:
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F2P games are only "owned" on steam if you install it. So just about everyone who installs a game at least starts it up once.
 
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You might be in the wrong forum then.
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Not necessarily. I've only played a handful of games on that list as well, and they'd be a tiny minority of my time spent playing. I just don't care for FPS games, which are disproportionately represented on that list. Plus I spend far more time playing Blizzard games than I would generally care to admit. I have to guess that I'm not alone when it comes to that second point in particular. My 360, on the other hand, is largely a dust collector.
 
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