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-Ack!- on 09 March 2015

OP are you implying that the value of gaming hours is the same for every game? For example: 8-15 hours is pretty decent for an average game, but 15 hours in Skyrim is nothing.

Same way I don't go to movies thinking that "...if this doesn't last at least 2 hours minimum I've wasted my money."

Same way I wouldn't buy a shitty game for 60 that lasts 20 hours just because "I'd get some value for my money". :D

So what if the price is 60 dollars now, it will be cheaper in the future, so just deal with it.

 

 



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mornelithe on 09 March 2015
Bristow9091 said:
mornelithe said:

I paid zero, and have 64,968 hours in a game. So, clearly, you're all doing it wrong. (Although, full disclosure, I did voluntarily donate $400 to it).

Sorry but I find this EXTREMELY hard to believe, since 64,968 hours is equal to 2,707 days, which again is equal to roughly seven and a half years of gametime, which I personally see as complete and utter bullshit, unless you can actually prove it to me... although these days it's way too easy to use an image editing program and change things, my brother tried to kid his friend that he'd spent over 10,000 hours on World of Warcraft when his playtime was in fact only around 300 hours... yet after he'd edited it in photoshop it looked like a completely legit screenshot, and he's only 12, so it can't be too hard to do.

Well, Guest didn't log in all night, so I'm assuming we're cool :D



Roma on 09 March 2015

but do00d dat graphix!


no not when there are a lot better movies out there



    R.I.P Mr Iwata :'(

Zkuq on 09 March 2015

Why would I? Brand new, I can get it for 50€. And if I'm willing to wait, I can get it for less than 10€. Or in some cases, I can even get it for free (and of course I'm speaking about legal alternatives).



skunkfish on 09 March 2015

My time is more valuable for than money, so the shorter, more intense the experience the better really.



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d21lewis on 09 March 2015

I pay $60 for a complete game. I don't pay by the hour like it's some common whore. I pay full price for the full experience (whatever that might be) like it is some uncommon whore that lets me revisit it whenever I want at any time for the rest of my life.

I'm a PS owner but I'm not a "Sony Guy". Even I disagree about the money vs playtime debate when it comes to The Order.

*still don't own it, yet*



mornelithe on 09 March 2015
Bristow9091 said:
mornelithe said:

Well, Guest didn't log in all night, so I'm assuming we're cool :D

I actually made a random name up, something like Heinekintor or something silly, can't remember it, but if you can see what other people type, I was just typing stuff like kill player, and it was like no player here so I tried being more specific and typed kill all the jews, and it said no all the jews here... terrible grammar! then I just kept typing what and help and shit like that, because seriously, I have no clue how to actually enjoy a text based game, lol... although I did manage to make myself a human, yay me, right? :P 

Hmmm, I'm sitting at Central Park, should've seen you log in...unless new Characters start in the Church (it's been over 2 decades since I started a new character there lol).  As far as killing players...due to, repeated abuses of the ability to kill players originally, you actually have to opt-in to becoming a pker (player killer).   So, without joining pk's you wouldn't have gotten anywhere with that.  Additionally, there are no-combat zones, the Church, Central Park, Post Office, Main Boards, and a few other noteworthy places are among them.

I'm honestly not sure how I was able to glean as much entertainment from a text-based game for this long, either.  But, I did used to play D&D, and a few other dice games.  So, that could have something to do with it (takes certain types..?), or it could just be that having started so far back when text-based MuD's were popular, it was easier to get into with so many people around.  

As far as grammar, heh, the syntax in MuD's are only as good as the people who made them, not that the folks who wrote Realms were bad, per-se (lots of college students programming for fun), but phrasing isn't universal.  And, man, there are some quests in there that're just brutal, brutal exercises in syntax futility.



Mnementh on 09 March 2015
mornelithe said:
Bristow9091 said:

Sorry but I find this EXTREMELY hard to believe, since 64,968 hours is equal to 2,707 days, which again is equal to roughly seven and a half years of gametime, which I personally see as complete and utter bullshit, unless you can actually prove it to me... although these days it's way too easy to use an image editing program and change things, my brother tried to kid his friend that he'd spent over 10,000 hours on World of Warcraft when his playtime was in fact only around 300 hours... yet after he'd edited it in photoshop it looked like a completely legit screenshot, and he's only 12, so it can't be too hard to do.

It's a mud that's been in operation since 1991 (that I've played since 1991).  It's text-based, and since it requires next to nothing in system resources, I've simply left the application open and logged in for...well, quite some time now.  I met a ridiculous amount of people on that game back when it was actually active...120-150 a day during peak hours, so the nostalgia factor rocks, and the off-chance some random old face stops in, it's cool to catch up and see where everyone is in life.

Realmsmud.org (you can connect via the web browser) or realmsmud.org portal 1501

log in, you can use guest

finger mornelithe.

Hmm, finger mornelithe@realmsmud doesn't work, maybe our muds don't have intermud-connection or the id of the mud is different then realmsmud. Anyways, I don't have 2.7K days, only 300:

Alter       : 372 Tage, 49 Minuten und 26 Sekunden

Alter=age

Tage=days

finger mnementh@wunderland

It's nice that a few mudders are still in existance.



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mornelithe on 09 March 2015
Bristow9091 said:

Well either way, since the game started in 1991 and I can see how easy it'd be to stay logged in (I rarely turn my PC off anyways and ny internet tabs are always open), I can see how you could spend so long playing (Although I'm assuming a lot of that time was spent idle while you were AFK), and for that I sincerely apologise for the remarks I made... forgive me? <3

Hah, nothing to forgive, it's an incredible number and should require some kind of proof or explanation.  I'd say possibly a quarter of that is playtime, give or take a month or two...not sure. The character was probably created ~93-4ish while I was in HS.  I was only able to turn on a tick timer (idle out in 45 mins of inactivity) sometime in the late 90's early 00's due to policies, but things relaxed substantially as the active player base dwindled.  But yes, much of that time is just idling while either AFK or in another window doing something else.

Mnementh said:

Hmm, finger mornelithe@realmsmud doesn't work, maybe our muds don't have intermud-connection or the id of the mud is different then realmsmud. Anyways, I don't have 2.7K days, only 300:

Alter       : 372 Tage, 49 Minuten und 26 Sekunden

Alter=age

Tage=days

finger mnementh@wunderland

It's nice that a few mudders are still in existance.

Just tried from my end, and the connection timed out.  It's entirely possible that some of that functionality was either disabled, or it's just not working at the moment.  The mudlib moved and I'm sure the new caretakers haven't poured over everything at this point. 

I appreciate it still being up, had some awesome times on here when I was a kid.



SvennoJ on 09 March 2015
-Ack!- said:

OP are you implying that the value of gaming hours is the same for every game? For example: 8-15 hours is pretty decent for an average game, but 15 hours in Skyrim is nothing.

Same way I don't go to movies thinking that "...if this doesn't last at least 2 hours minimum I've wasted my money."

Same way I wouldn't buy a shitty game for 60 that lasts 20 hours just because "I'd get some value for my money". :D

So what if the price is 60 dollars now, it will be cheaper in the future, so just deal with it.

Actually, when I was a teenager I choose which movie to rent based on the run time :/ Those 90 minute comedies weren't worth it to me. Movies that came on 2 tapes (yeah I'm old) even better! Nowadays it's the opposite. 2-3 hour movie, ugh, that's my whole evening.

With games I prefer both actually. Shorter games that I can finish in a week or two, and longer ones I can plug away at on my laptop an hour here or there while doing other stuff. Do I care I only paid 20 pounds for Elite Dangerous and have logged well over 100 hours on it so far, while I paid CAD 70 for The order. Not at all, totally different experience. One I play while browsing the internet or watching Netflix, the other in a dark room with the sound up totally immersed in the world.