Hello PC Gaming community.
With this post I kind of want to poll the Steam gamers here; how important are your or your friends’ Steam stats to you?
By that, I mean total playtime, badges, level, number of achievements etc.
For exemple, I have a colleague that keeps boasting about his playtime and expertise on a particular game (which is over 3000 hours). However, whenever I log in Steam, he’s always online running that game (even when he’s actually at work). I have trouble grasping the utility of artificially inflating your numbers if you only played the game for maybe 10% of that amount.
Thanks in advance!
I use it to only measure money/time value you got out of a game. I don’t use stats to measure skill, I can tell well enough by the way I play with said friend.
If I played a $50 for 5 hours then that’s $10/hour. It’s expensive, but if it was a blast, then at least it’s cheaper than a night out. If I have 100 or more hours clocked, that’s under $0.50/hr of entertainment so quite worth it imo. I’d basically check it when I’m on the fence about shelling out cash.
Are you sure he’s not playing at work as well? Stats are cool, but it doesn’t really matter to me or my friends.
I occasionally use friends’ play time stats as a kind of recommendation list: If someone with taste similar to my own is playing a game consistently, I’m more likely to give it a try.
It’s also sometimes interesting to look at their achievements to get hints about play styles that I haven’t tried or secrets that I haven’t discovered.
Other than that, I don’t care about stats at all.
By the way, the play time counter is meaningless for competition, unless you’re competing for who can burn the most electricity. It includes time spent paused, or in menus, or at the title screen.
Not a stats guy myself. At most, I get trophies out of something that feels a bit like OCD. Ultimately, I just want to have fun with my games, and not to boast them around. And tbh, one of the reasons I started dropping Steam was precisely the enforced social features (still use it, but now I’m finishing more games than I get instead).
