Total gameplay time... can we have this?

[cookiecutter]

The development team is looking into adding a total play time function, but first they will need to see if it is technically possible. As soon as we know more, we will update everyone.

Sweet now I can see which one of my alts I favor more.

[Hyunckel]

Sweet now I can see which one of my alts I favor more.

Yeah knowing how much total time spent on FF14 is a good thing (for one to see if I spent more on this one than other games ).
What would be extra nice is to know which class is the most played ^^

[StrejdaTom]

I have this game in Steam but as non-steam application so it does not show my playtime. But I guess I have around 1100 or so. )

The moment you enjoyed wasting your time was not a waste of time so.. I enjoyed every hour I spent playing this game.

[whiskeybravo]

I would actually like to know this too

+1

[EternityFate]

The development team is looking into adding a total play time function, but first they will need to see if it is technically possible. As soon as we know more, we will update everyone.

YAY! i'm glad to hear this +_+ really thank you!

[Xine]

You guys don't want to know how much of your life you have spent in game. I do. I'm curious about it. I'm over 365 days in XI >.> that is a lot of time.

365 Days in FFXI was a lot? Damn I might need to rethink my FFXI time, over the course of about 9 years playing it I racked up over 1300 days if my memory is correct, considering I was unemployed for about a total of 5 years (at least) while playing it, a good majority of my time was actually spent playing, not afk.

As far implementing this, they had it in FFXI and if memory serves me correctly, in the later parts of FFXIV 1.0, though I could be wrong on that one. Regardless though, I don't see how they would have a problem implementing this unless they're talking about having a problem determining the total playtime of players characters from the launch of ARR up until its implementation. Though even with the wording given, it sounds like two entirely different issues to me. For the record, it was as easy as typing /playtime or /playlog and you'd get a system type message displaying your total playtime from character creation until that point in days, hours, minutes, seconds (in FFXI it was this way.)

[pinder2009]

I would like to be able to see but only after requesting it from a GM. I remember another game that I played where they did it like that. That was it remained somewhat "hidden" so you don't have to see if you don't want to.

[Asheilin]

considering that XI had the feature for what seemed like forever, My fiancee played it long before I had and said it was there as long as he played it.... Why would it be technically difficult?
Personally, I think we should have a tally on character selection with TOTAL playtime across all characters. Then when you log into a character, you can see total for character maybe with a class/job most time: example On selection__total playtime 56days 6hours___ On character Ahmira Soulrage ___48 days 17h, 48% Arcanist___ maybe by /playtime for that character and /tplaytime for total playtime cumulative.

[ThirdKeyOfSun]

It might be the case that all of these stats have not been recorded at all. In the case of the new player status there is a very real chance that once the time is up for the status to drop that it stops counting all together since there is nothing currently in game requiring it to continue beyond that. This is all I could think of off the top of my head, ma'am. Please have a wonderful day~

[XenoSamurai]

will it count my time in 1.0? probably not though...