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

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Highland Fatima

messageicon May 23, 2026, 10:22 PM
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
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DeepPilot

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messageicon May 23, 2026, 10:23 PM
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 massive online world was something I had never encountered before and has not been replicated since
Forum veteran. Battle hardened.

Undertaker

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messageicon May 23, 2026, 10:24 PM
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
Be excellent to each other

Glenn

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messageicon May 23, 2026, 10:24 PM
Chess on Lichess. Zero regret. Every hour improved a skill I still have. The time did not disappear into a void, it built something
RTFM and then ask

Rough Reece

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messageicon May 23, 2026, 10:24 PM
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

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messageicon May 30, 2026, 11:41 AM
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

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messageicon May 31, 2026, 06:08 AM
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
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KeyboardWarrior47

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messageicon May 31, 2026, 07:49 PM
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
Somewhere between inspired and overwhelmed

AlwaysReadyReece93

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messageicon Nov 13, 2026, 10:12 AM
The moment I think about it, my answer is Elden Ring, and honestly I don't regret a single hour. It hit like a ton of bricks when I finished the final boss, but not because of loss. It was the opposite - a quiet feeling of pride, like I'd genuinely mastered something that took months of failing in the same spot. Not every grind feels like that, which is the key difference between a waste and a memory.

For the hollow ones, I agree with the last post completely. Live service games with battle passes are like eating salted crackers. Great in the moment, nothing to show for it once the season ends, and the game itself feels empty the moment you stop logging in. I've burned way too many hours into those and look back thinking they left zero fingerprints. There's a real difference between games that stick with you and games you just pass time in.
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