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Louie on 05 January 2024
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Farsala said:
Louie said:

I never experienced this myself with a single game. I don't game that much, if I put 50 hours into a game it's a lot. I do sometimes have spells where I'll play more than I should (in terms of time consumption) but that never lasts long and it's always manageable. 

I did, however, use to play games together with a group of friends and at some point the whole group (except myself) started playing Dota 2 excessively. They always wanted me to join, but the game just seemed like a huge time sink. They all racked up like 10,000+ hours of game time and apparently you're still considered a Dota 2 noob at that point. A friend of mine still plays the game and I think he's at 20,000+ hours now, which is absolutely insane for someone who isn't into the game (I think my most played game of all time is Advance Wars Dual Strike on the DS with 250 hours, which I played on and off for years). He tends to have spells where he just plays Dota 2 excessively for hours and hours and then he has to force himself to stop playing for a few weeks or months. He literally won't leave his house during his Dota addiction spells. It makes me worried at times. 

10,000 hours in a moba is an insane amount of time, let alone 20,000. An average match in Dota 2 is longer than league maybe around 1 hour, so he played like 20,000 matches? Win rate be like 10,000 wins and losses if matchmaking works well. Just to be clear 20,000 hours is more than 2 years and 3 months of playing an intense game. Dota 2 has only existed since 2013, so out of 11 years he has played dota 2 for 2 years, sleep maybe 2 or 3 years? Job? I think only pro level players would be above 20,000 hours, so I hope your buddy is at least trying to go pro, and it is at least his job.

Actually found 7 accounts with more than 2 years played, is he one of them?

https://www.dotabuff.com/players/duration

Top 100 have around +10,000 hours maybe up to top 500.

Yeah, it's quite insane. I don't think he actually has more than 20,000 hours of playtime looking at the stats you provided (I guess he was bragging), but he's over 10,000 hours I think and that was quite some time ago (I remember because I thought through it and told him he's literally been playing the game for years). He has had no job for 7 or 8 years at this point and sometimes he's just playing Dota the whole day.

Edit: I have no idea how good he is at the game, but it's definitely not his job (he's not streaming or anything. He did find his ex-girlfriend via Dota, though. So I guess in that regards he was successful at least).