Total gameplay time... can we have this?

[Anera]

if you have steam ver it tell you
this is my time + PS4 time 500h+

[Gyson]

Ideally the /played counter wouldn't include any time spent AFK, because from I've seen some characters spend more time standing around AFK than actually playing. Kind of a useless stat for them, otherwise.

[Gwaeron]

09-16-2013 10:16 PM

Wait...just how long we been down here anyways?



The team is looking into implementing a text command that displays your total playtime. For other facts and figures we'll look into showing that off in other ways down the road...

Their Looking skill level must be really low...

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

Actually,

The servers do indeed keep data on the amount of time a player spends in-game so it is possible this feature might make an appearance some time in 2.0. ;D

[Arwen]

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.

Oh gosh... I remember this in XI. I cry everytime.

[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.".