I’m curious what game you guys have sunk the most hours into. Mine has to be RuneScape, I don’t know the total hours because I’ve had so many accounts over the years I don’t even remember half my passwords, but it’s definitely in the thousands of hours now. I’ve played on/off RS2, OSRS, and RS3 since 2004.
I’ve also probably sunk anywhere from hundreds to 1000+ hours into Skyrim and Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura, though I don’t know the counts there either since neither were through Steam. Embarrassingly enough I’ve never completed either of those two games - I get sidetracked making so many alt characters.
What about you guys? & What got you hooked on said game?
It become a bit of a parody of itself from the 3rd expansion onwards when they fully embraced pop culture references, but the first 6 years (up to the end of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion) it was literally everywhere (have you seen all of all of those celebrity commercials?).
It was a perfectly cromulent game as a single player - though nothing special. The real magic was playing with anywhere from 19-39 other people to co-ordinate through massive dungeons and kill the various end bosses.
For millions of people at one time or another, it was their primary way of socialising - and that was probably the most addictive aspect.