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Steam and its Stats (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh don't misunderstand me, I know it's meaningless.

I was just wondering why some people are stuffing up their numbers and calling out other gamers for having less expertise than them based on playtime.

Thanks for your answer!