What game have you put the most hours into and do you regret any of them - what do you reckon

[Highland Fatima]

Honest question for the gaming board. What game has consumed the most hours of your life and looking back do you feel that time was well spent or wasted?

No judgment either way. Curious what people think about the time they spend gaming

[DeepPilot]

World of Warcraft from 2005 to 2010. Thousands of hours. I regret none of it. The friendships I made in that game are still real friendships. The experience of a genuinely massive online world was something I had never encountered before and has not been replicated since

[Undertaker]

Path of Exile. I have logged more hours than I can comfortably admit. I regret approximately half of them. The early hours of each league are magical. The later hours are compulsive rather than enjoyable and I know the difference now

[Glenn]

Chess on Lichess. Zero regret. Every hour improved a skill I still have. The time did not disappear into a void, it built something

[Rough Reece]

FIFA Ultimate Team across multiple years. Pure regret. The dopamine loop was engineered to consume time and money and I fed both into it. The worst version of gaming

[CMPunk_Mike]

The question of whether gaming time is wasted is the same as whether any leisure time is wasted. Reading a novel for six hours is not considered wasted. Gaming for six hours is. The double standard says something about how we think about entertainment

[Plateau65]

Minecraft with my kids. Best hours I have spent on any game. The collaborative building, watching them figure out problems, the shared worlds. Gaming at its best

[KeyboardWarrior47]

Any live service game with a battle pass. The hours feel fine in the moment and hollow in retrospect because the content evaporates. Games that leave you with a completed thing feel better in memory than games that give you a treadmill