Total gameplay time... can we have this?

[Vorpal_Spork]

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.

What do you mean? Of course it's technically possible. It's dead simple in fact. It could have been coded in little more than the time it took to write that post, not including compiling of course. It wouldn't work retroactively for existing characters, at least not with any of the ways I know how to do it, but it would be trivial to implement for new characters, even by someone as incompetent at programming as I am. If you spent half the time coding that you do "looking into" things you'd get orders of magnitude more done. Sometimes I wonder what's going on in game developers' brains. Their thought processes usually seem completely irrational. Granted, I'm used to working with loosely typed high level languages, but even assuming C++ or whatever takes triple the time to accomplish the same thing, the only acceptable answer to "Can we see how long we've played?" is "Already done. It'll be available next patch.".