Is the amount of hours we're playing being tracked? Will the devs ever add a feature so we know how many hours we have put in, or at least release it through event NPCs?
Or is this too depressing of a feature and should stay unimplemented?
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Is the amount of hours we're playing being tracked? Will the devs ever add a feature so we know how many hours we have put in, or at least release it through event NPCs?
Or is this too depressing of a feature and should stay unimplemented?
This would be cool to see in the future. When I look at the time played in XI I get this weird sense of gratitude for the creators of that game for giving me a whole another world to live in for all those da... coughmonthscough...ys of my life =)
/thumbsup
Do it to it!
I don't know back when i played ffxi and saw them numbers it worried me that I had a severe addiction. I spent a whole year logged in evidently lol.
It would be an interesting feature. They could just list it on the Character Select screen, kinda like loading a save in every FF since VI(I think)/Kingdom Hearts game.
Don't add it. Seeing your addiction isn't good. You might rehabilitate by quitting the game.
Yes please!
I was actually really dissappointed when I realised this wasn't in the game at launch!
i'd like to see my game hours too.
I don't see the harm in this, I didn't use it much in XI, but it's always good to check, and fun to know. :)
Some of us don't have very much idle time at all, I might afk to run to the store, but I bet my count's pretty accurate otherwise. Perhaps in the future they could make it so if a character doesn't move for ~10 minutes the clock stops counting, and provides a distinction between play time and idle time?
Example:
You type /playtime and it shows
Play time: 42 days, 7 hours, 6 minutes.
Idle time: 1 day, 4 hours, 17 minutes.
Really though, I'd be fine with just the amount of time we've been logged in.
I want to see my hours please add this feature.
I've got a PS memory card with FF1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9, CT, & CC files on it that show times. I copied it to my PS2 card that also had my X, X-2, and XII, KH and KH2 play times. Not to mention the ~170 days my /playtime showed in FFXI. But that's on the HDD, can't check from a memory card, of course.
/shamelessfanboy
Think the last time I checked in XI it was something like 5 years. Idled a lot though so...
/random or /roll as well
right click functionality as well
/sigh and /slap commands as well
We let the dev. team know about your desire to see how much time you've spent playing. They let us know that it might be something they could add on the time widget they're currently looking into implementing (one that shows the real world time in-game).
Thanks, Bay. You the Morbol.
They can make a time widget, but can't make a temp. kick command for LS's.... ;\ I'm just being bitter..
I read that, still, no temporary fix though. A temp fix while they're making a permanent fix is better then sitting here for another 6 months of remaking LS's. That's all we need, a stupid kick command...it would be nice to have a invite command, but the kick command would be the bare essential...
I agree i think a kick would be better but w/e i guess they just don't feel like doing the work just to rebuild it. I think the issue is crystal tool then top of that they ended up buying cheap servers. That they can't even give us more room to hold item due to the HDD that hold our char would be too much lol. They can't even add sign item from friends.
i don't think this game would even go p2p too other year at best. pretty sad too seeing like the game would be better due to all the troll gone and the game can get good idea from overlook people due to troll topics.
When there was the post about being unable to give us bigger bags due to the size of HDDs, meant that it would require too many constant upgrades I would expect, think about it, lets say for the sake of argument all characters currently on all servers need 2TBs of serverside data, then come ps3 release the population increases 5 times, that would need 10TBs, then every year for 3 years the population doubles they would need 20TBs, then 40TBs, then 80TBs.
This sort of upgrade can cost a company alot of money, and even more if they increase the amount of items they need to store, of course it would help if they brought more information client side, im sure alot of the character data on the servers can be brought to the client.
Oh i can understand the cost but when they release this game they had p2p in mind. What if they had so many people playing and the game was good? and they had low HDD space i mean i don't know why they would start with such cheap on a AAA MMO.
But w/e i know it cost money to upgrade there servers and such but i hope they do all this before ps3 release. I played the game a lot at release and beta even due to all the issue knowing they could fix it and so far looking good. I looking forward too the core system/servers fix/update the most then anything that and job updates ;)
They will probably give us bigger bags if the game ends up producing enough revenue to warrent HDD upgrades, but right now it isnt and there isnt any indecation if, when it goes p2p, they will get the money to warrent it, it all depends on if they can turn it around.
id love a place that shows obscure statistics, like how many treasure chests I have opened, how many monsters killed, and of course, playtime. :)
POOF /ffxifairyserver
I loved /playtime back when i played FFXI.
It was so nice to be able to see how many days of my life i wasted of a video game lol.
But i used to afk a lot back then. I don't do that anymore.
Jokes aside, i support this idea.