Escapist: Europa Universalis & Crusader Kings Have Average Play Times of 190+ Hours

[Regina]

"From the design perspective, the open-ended grand strategy games Paradox Development Studio makes are specifically created to give the players freedom to explore the simulation for as long as they want. "I see the amount of hours players sink into our games as hard evidence that gamers want freedom," said Johan Andersson, studio manager. "We want you as a gamer to have freedom to set your own goals, decide what tools to use and make choices."
Andersson takes the high average play times to heart. "That gamers get so engaged that they continue playing our games for hundreds of hours is of course the biggest compliment we as a game developer can ever get," he said."

Read the full article here:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/132510-Europa-Universalis-and-Crusader-Kings-Have-Average-Play-Times-of-190-Hours

How many hours have you played our games?

Cheers,
regina

 

[Red John]

I have triple that.

Step it up, people.

 

[Regina]

I have triple that.

Step it up, people.

:happy:

 

[Talar]

Hmm, that's just on Steam not counting for example the CK2 playtime on Gamersgate non-Steam versions.

 

[Variton]

I have the feeling that the playtime per person does not follow normal distribution and median figure would be more telling. I have logged in more than 200 hours of EU4 and Rapt'r shows that only 3,3% of players have played more than I.

Do you do some manual correction to clean of the people who have the game, but have not (really) played it?

Hmm, that's just on Steam not counting for example the CK2 playtime on Gamersgate non-Steam versions.

Yeah. I have 90 hours on steam, but more than 200 on Rapt'r. Converted with SoA.

Statistics are hardly ever perfect

 

[StatikShocker]

I have 1391 in civ v but 841 in EUIV it will surpass it in due time

 

[NYmasajista]

At 742 hours played I have definitely gotten my moneys worth from this game.

Hundreds of hours played as so many different countries because I am a history nerd and really enjoy creating an ahistorical world with whatever goals I set for myself. Although to be fair around 40% of that is not actively playing as I walked away to do things or fell asleep on the couch while running my empire. Keep up the good work and please show some love to the religions on the east side of Eurasia some day. I'm patient as I see CK2 is still getting DLCs years later and will still be playing this off and on for years like I have in the past with games from Microprose (MOO and X-COM) and Creative Assembly.

Thanks to all of you at Paradox Development Studio and everyone in these forums for the tips, tricks, and ideas.

 

[Jorlaan]

555 on CK2 and 340 on EU4 with approximately 15% of the time on both being AFK.

These games are wonderful in that I can take any country, play 20 games in a row with it and have 20 different games.
Over the last 3 years grand strategy games have become my absolute favorite type of computer game. The depth and unpredictability both make for some truly interesting games.

 

[delra]

What's the average in the industry?

 

[Tallyhoo]

1094 hrs played here I never played any game for so long. Thats prolly because i play on slowest speed all the time.

 

[Bibor]

EU4: 940+ hours. At least 1/4th of it is just "game paused" though. Still WAY TOO MUCH. I need professional help. Seriously :-/

 

[gajop]

That's something to be proud of, it means you have satisfied customers

 

[AltarofScience]

1004 on EU4 and 606 on CK2. That seems wrong. 3 hours a day for a year. Crazy. I really need to do something productive with my time.

Vicky2 is only 129 hours, so that's good.

 

[Kapitalisti]

Damn I'm a noob, got only 610h on CK2 and 400h on EUIV (and a measly 100h on V2). I promise I'll step up once I get my Master's thesis done!

 

[Lakedaimon]

Viccy2: 261
CK2: 394
EU4: 374

And I've been busy as hell ever since august, just can't resist that EU4!!

 

[kbernges]

Steam counts are as follows:
CK2: 1070 hours (additional likely at least that with a copy I had on GamersGate)
EU3: 1071 hours
EU4: 329 hours
HoI3: 2090 hours
MotE: 12 hours
Sengoku: 63 hours
Vicky2: 646 hours

Other non-grand-strategy Paradox-produced titles:
Probably a sum total of another 400-500 hours.

....I'm not addicted, I swear. >_>

 

[Hardeknut]

Hearts of Iron 2 around 100 hours
CK1 around 50 hours (didnt really appeal to me for some reason)
EU 3 around 1500 hours (not on steam)
Hearts of Iron 3 around 500 hours (not on steam)
Victoria 2 around 1000 hours (not on steam)
CK2 around 1200 hours (not on steam)
EU 4 470 hours and counting

 

[Junuxx]

Very interesting! I disagree with this being the biggest compliment gamers could make though. It's not.

 

[Variton]

Very interesting! I disagree with this being the biggest compliment gamers could make though. It's not.

Trapped. So I present the mandatory ?

 

[Incompetent]

It takes me that long just to finish one game of EU4 :unsure: