I’ve just run some interesting numbers. I decided to install the Altoholic addon, and by logging in each and every one of my characters, it allowed me to see my total time /played across all of my characters:
414 days
That doesn’t include a number of characters that I played for a while and then deleted, but those characters were short-lived and probably didn’t add more than a day or two. But I was curious … what percentage of my time has been spent playing WoW since I started playing?
I can’t remember the exact date I first logged into the game, but I remember that it was during Winter Veil, 2008. So, let’s say December 20, 2008.
Dec. 20, 2008 to Dec. 20, 2014: 2,190 days
Dec. 20, 2014 to May 3, 2015: 134 days
Total: 2,324 days since first logging in.
414 days played / 2,324 days: 0.17814114
So, assuming I’ve done the math correctly, since I first logged into the game, nearly 18% of my time has been spent playing WoW :eek: That works out to (again, if I’m remembering my high school math correctly), on average, 4.32 hours per day, every day for 2,324 days, logged into WoW.
This gets even scarier when you consider the fact that I took a full six-month break from the game at the end of Cataclysm, and the fact that I’ve been kind of bored with WoD and haven’t been playing very regularly since the first of this year.
Now, I obviously haven’t been logged into WoW for 4.32 hours every day for a solid 2,324 days. I’ve been a working adult the entire time I’ve been playing this game. I think what’s skewing that “per day” number is the job I was working when I started playing the game. I was working at my city’s convention center, and the convention business is seasonal. Tons and tons of work during the Spring and Fall, and almost no work at all during the Winter and Summer. For most of that time, I was also sharing a house with two other men, so my expenses were surprisingly low. So I made enough money during the convention seasons (and didn’t have time to spend it) that I didn’t need to work during the off-seasons. My savings were enough to cover me during those times.
So, from December 2008 through August 2013 (when I changed jobs), I had almost five years worth of Winters and Summers with a whole lot of free time on my hands. And while my savings was enough to cover my bills and expenses during those slack times, they weren’t enough to allow me to spend extravagantly, like taking trips or other spendy entertainment. But WoW was only $15/month. So I sat at home during the slack times and played WoW, often from the time I got up in the morning until I went to bed at night.
so the rest of BWD was non-heroic.