Re: Steam Families

On 3/22/2024 7:30 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:

kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote at 17:54 this Friday (GMT):

On 3/22/2024 4:50 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:

kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote at 13:50 this Thursday (GMT):

On 3/21/2024 2:21 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:36:07 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 21/03/2024 10:24, kyonshi wrote:

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I find the playtime stat. basically useless as I tend to play a game,
leave it open and then comeback to it later. I also noticed that there
are games like Portal that I've played through I think three times and
the total playtime is 1 min.

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I've seen this too. Oddly, it seems to happen most with Valve's own
games. According to Steam, I've only played Portal for 85 minutes,
despite finishing it multiple times (I know it's a short game, but
c'mon!). Similarly, Steam says I've only logged 26 hours on "Half Life
2". But other games are affected too; "Batman: Arkham Asylum" (two
complete playthroughs) has only a 40 minute play-time.
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The 'time-played' stat is completely unreliable in my experience. It
doesn't always happen (my "Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" remains fixed at
654hours, and has for years) but it happens often enough that I
wouldn't rely on it for anything except basic amusement purposes.
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It for sure doesn't log anything if Steam doesn't see an online
connection. And there have been games that I tried once for five minutes
and then found running in the background two days later (putting Sonic 4
into my list of most-played games).
Still, I like looking at a list of the games I spent most time with. I
don't need completely accurate accounting as long as it shows me what
games I spent the most time with.

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/Why/ did you buy Sonic 4??
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(i cant judge too hard i did too ^^)

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it was in a bundle on Humble, together with lots of other Sonic games.
And I got enough playtime out of the Racing games and some of the other
platformers to make up for Sonic 4.

  Seems like a pretty good deal, even if S4 is negative value.

I mean, you would expect Sonic 4 to be at least decent, considering 1-3, but noooooo. it's a complete stinker.