Im not going lie in my years of playing i played more than 400 hours i would say.
 
  Around the 6 min mark this is mentioned, and as the talker says, around 6 million years ago is when the first human ancestors would have walked upright. I find this number just scary!
 
 http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html
 

i have attributed about an hour or 2 to that count......game wasnt for me

god fucking dammit.... we would have a cure for cancer and be living in space right now if it wasn't for wow

" i have attributed about an hour or 2 to that count......game wasnt for me "

I spent over 600 hours with WoW. 
 
Thankfully, I stopped a while ago.

a hair under 3000 hours. huge waste of time...

And if you stretched out all of the monsters killed in WoW since it started end-to-end, they would reach the sun and back 1000 times! 

this is sad

" god fucking dammit.... we would have a cure for cancer and be living in space right now if it wasn't for wow "

" god fucking dammit.... we would have a cure for cancer and be living in space right now if it wasn't for wow "

55 days played over 2 years for me lol.

my friend has 3,800 hours on that game 
my other friends has like 10000 
i have like 4 lol 

Oh.dear.god....
 
That is, well, overwhelming actually. Of course, it's not really so huge as it seems, considering the number of people who play wow, and after all the game has only been out around 5! I do think that if people didn't have so much to help the stave away boredom intelligence and creativity levels may increase though.

I played so much WoW, i don't even remember my time played, but it was up there, I still have fond memories of Classic WoW raids (BWL, AQ40) and i plan on getting a figure print made of my mage, just because 

I have around 8000 hours played in WoW - about 330 days. It's my favorite game of all time. The lore, mechanics and atmosphere of World of Warcraft is just amazing.  
 
Unfortunately, a lot of people will disagree.

I added in 20 minutes lol.  Like the other duder above me said, game is not for me.

When I quit I had over a year of /played, which is 8760 odd hours over 5 years... but i'm over it now, I can look at an MMO without getting the shakes.
 
Should probably add I was bored of the game long before that, but I stuck around due to playing with friends and that's why alot of them are still playing.

Wow, that's alot of time. (pun intended)

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Wow, that's alot of time. (pun intended)

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I probably have around 200 days played overall over the course of 4 years, and to be fair its alot. BUT if I didn't play wow I would prolly just watch television or play some other game instead so /care?

" @HitmanAgent47 said:

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Wow, that's alot of time. (pun intended)

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Where's the pun? "

6M * (hours in a year; 8760) = 52.56 billion man-hours. Assuming those hours were spent working, that would be ~400 billion dollars even at minimum wage 0_o. Over a trillion dollars if we're looking at average wage. Not saying they should have spent their time working, most of this was probably in free time, but still. 

I know I've played over 1000 hours according to my xfire account, but I wasn't always logged into that while I was playing.

THAT MUCH? 
Oh god.Dear god.

...Sweet fucking christ! That...boggles the mind!

Woah... thats.... just....  

i've heard about that 10000 hour theory before. 
i seriously just got really depressed. 
she said that the average gamer spends 10000 hours of video games by age 21. 
by 21, i could've been playing on the lakers 
i could've had a number one single 
i could've won an oscar 
jesus.... i mean i know that i would've have spent every minute that i would've been playing videogames doing something productive, but still.  
 
 

jesus

i have about 72 hours in WoW. I'm quite surprised, I didn't think it was that much.

That's cause the game reeks of awesomeness!

I've contributed about 5 minutes to that.

That's insane. I'm glad I haven't contributed to that statistic.

I was hoping to defend this statistic and show the anti-WoW folk that it isn't a big deal, but the math seems to show an average of 4,517 hours per player on average, or 188 days /played.  Granted, that's over five years, and doesn't account for the gap in playtime between casual players (the majority of the base) and hardcore raider-types (less than 5% according to Blizzard), or the number of people who are former players.
 
Maybe I should have watched the TED talk you linked to see how this person got their numbers.  Oh well.  38 days right here one one character, and probably a few more weeks among the rest of them.  No shame.

I've played about 2400 hours.

I have contributed nothing to that count.

Just think about all that could be done to improve the world if all those hours were invested into doing something productive!

2k+ hours for me back from 2004-2007.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I REGRET NOTHING.

Doing the math, that's over 4000 hours per subscriber. I don't know if I believe that number... then again I wouldn't be shocked if that number is accurate.

I haven't played in over a year, but I had over 400 hours in it. That is over the span of two and a half years.

" Doing the math, that's over 4000 hours per subscriber. I don't know if I believe that number... then again I wouldn't be shocked if that number is accurate. "

i have around 500 days played in 1 char , got 3 more chars that atm i dont know how much played they got -.-

I've tributed to a little over 70 days from late 2006-early 2010 with alot of pauses and breaks ofcourse, i only paid for 3 months in 2009 and played for 1 month in 2010.

I've accumulated around 70 days, over the course of 3 years that I've been playing WoW; with many, many breaks inbetween.

I kinda wish I would have hopped on WOW when it all began. Me starting now would be way too late to the party. That's a lot of time though.