Random poster in a thread about games: "Please tell me you've played more than a hundred games in your life. Think about it. A hundred. Should seem like a small number, compared to probably over a million games out there"
Interesting question. How many games HAVE I played? For the purposes of this question, let's say games you've played for a minimum of one hour. Beyond that, the definition is up to you (arcade, phone, flash, console, PC, whatever).
How many games are in your Steam/GoG libraries today?
I'm going to work on a more accurate count, but my GoG/Steam libraries have about 150 games, and I have certainly not played all of those. I would guess my bodycount is between 300 and 400, spanning from the late 80s to today, with a greatly diminished count in the last ten years.
What's yours?
I've got 650+ on Steam, though I've probably only beaten about half of them, with the other half being a mix of never played bundles or just not gripping enough to go back. So let's guess around 400 there.
I have a shelf in my house entirely devoted to my empty game cases, which I counted at around 300 a few years back. But that's an entire lifetime of slow collecting and bargain shopping.
The real problem is my close to 1500 days /played on a WoW account. Of which I haven't even played more than a few dozen since 2015.
I haven't logged in for a while, and I'm sure I'm not at 1500 days (!), but I have a still ridiculous number of hours in WoW. Played consistently through vanilla, BC, and WotLK, started taking some breaks during Cataclysm and Pandaria, and have played very sporadically since then. I still like to check out new expansions.
Yeah I went hardcore from the end of TBC up until the end of MoP, with on and off play at the start of each expansion after that until Dragonflight was finally too much for me.
And for a solid chunk of Cata and most of MoP I was getting paid for a lot of my playtime (the benefits of being a high up raider), and as that was my main source of income for that time I could probably call close to 300 days of that purely work.
I don’t quite know what it is about Dragonflight. It seems like it should be a good expansion, but I just didn’t enjoy it. I do know there too damn many systems, currencies, reps, etc. I logged in after the new patch came out (not having played for a couple of months) and I don’t have a clue what is going on.
Kudos for getting to that level of raiding. I’ve been a filthy casual for a lot of years at this point.
Ironically, I like having a lot of busy work. I'm an achievement whore at heart, and only got into raiding to be geared enough for soloing content (and getting raid only mounts). My big "quit moment" was how often later expansions would try to "seamlessly mix" all the various systems together. So if you weren't constantly running M+/raiding, you'd fall behind on everything and usually be too weak to do basic world quests.
Heck, my buddy just gave me a bunch of free months to play hardcore with him and I'll probably go back to farming my old expansion mounts and collections again in my down time. I love that shit.