10 - 12 hours seems the average with 6 - 7 hours if you don't care about actually enjoying the atmosphere and searching for content. I'll probably take around 15 hours to beat this. About average for this time of game.

It's split in parts, I doubt you need me to link you every single part, you can see them on his channel by yourself. And yes, it is the only actual proof right now because you can actually see him beating it in under 6 hours.

What people say doesn't prove anything.

I can also just say ya I played it and it took me 15 hours if I like. 

Do you not think that the amount of game you are going to be getting has any effect on your decision to pay x amount of money? I have seen some people say that they would gladly pay 60$ for a 1 hour experience as long as the game is good, and that just doesn't make sense to me. There just isn't enough game there to justify that price. 

With only about 4 hours of gameplay in The Order, that just doesn't justify the price tag to me. You can really only do so much in four hours when it comes to games. I have watched the first hour of The Order (at the time thinking that the game was 12 hours) and my thinking was that the gameplay was minimal and it did nothing interesting. The player was of little consequence, and the game did its best to make you feel like a casual observer instead of a part of the story, by breaking immersion with on screen button prompts or giving cinematic cuts every time you did the most menial of tasks. Add to that the fact that fail states are extremely jarring, simply fading to a black screen and rewinding the tape by 15seconds. There was one section where this baddy took a guy hostage and you tried to save him. If you fail, you get a black screen and have to try again. That just feels lazy. How hard would it have been to just let that guy die, and give you a line of dialogue? But no, you have to stay on the path. The story is the only priority here...

This isn't just a game lasting under 6 hours (PS: You read that comment wrong when you said the game was 12hours long...read it again), its a game with about four hours of fluffy gameplay wrapped in a pretty package. 

PS: TWD S1 is about 12-13 hours according to How Long to Beat, but it has its own share of faults

Play time depends on how you play the game; some people rush everything and don't explore, other people play games more deeply. If one gamer manages to finish a game in less than X hours, this does not mean I will finish it in those X hours. End of the story.

If you add these numbers, you are doing it wrong

You're looking at on average around 10 hours. From people's reaction to The Order, it's a great game too. FUD just travels facter than facts.

Enlighten yourself on how long it generally takes to complete a story driven action adventure game.

http://howlongtobeat.com/

But suddenly it's an issue.

You can clearly beat both games in a deceptive amount of time, if you ignore large quantities of the game, so in that regard the comparisons are apt.   Yes, it's unlikely you'll know how to beat SMW in under 20 minutes on your first playthrough, but it is possible to stumble across the solution.  Regardless, we know SMW takes longer to 100%, just as we know that it takes longer to 100% the Order, if you actually care about the game, versus just adding another notch to your belt of conquered IP.

Why?

Because, the first value was a value of total playtime, while the second value was total playtime minus the length of cutscene only chapters. It seems some people misunderstood the comment, thinking that the two values were something they were not.