User reviews: 'Time Spent' too vague

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#1 jono2
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I love reading user reviews. I particularly like looking at the Time Spent pie chart.

The problem is that i feel this is too vague.

For instance, a game could take 10 hours to complete, but the person plays it again and again therefore giving it 100+ hours gameplay time.

Would it be possible to allow users to state the time it took them to complete the game first times around and then state how long they have been playing the game intotal since getting it.

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#2 serbsta69
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Personally i dont see that as being a major part of a review, although it would be nice to see, many people dont keep track of how long it took them to beat etc. (maybe im just speaking for myself). I guess it would be a nifty addition.
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#3 cell_dweller  Moderator
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I kind of like this idea, or something similar to it. An example of said suggestion....Lego Star Wars 2. It took me like 8 hours to beat the entire game, story wise, but then I spent about 120 hours just playing it. I never thought it would have such replay value, but it does. I think it would be a good thing to know.
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#5 jono2
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okay, let me explain what i mean. For example:

I like to play RPGs. I don't really have that much free time, therefore i don't want to get a game that would take me like 100+ hours to complete (not including bonuses and extras). I would be happy with a game that takes 30 hours to complete but has lots of replayability. That is what i mean. Obviously it isn't really that important for all games like racing gamesand strategy games for example. Maybe this could be a feature added to platform games and RPGs etc.

Other people might have the opposite view: they want a game that takes 100+ hours to complete. They could look at the time spent chart and see that people have spent 100+hours on the game when really they have just been replaying it again and again which takes 10+ hours to complete each time thereby misleading the reader.

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#6 cell_dweller  Moderator
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[QUOTE="gakon5"]?!?!?!?!?! You can put specific things about time in your review probably. Plus, games like Team Fortress 2 or World of Warcraft can't be "completed" per se.

I'm talking like in the little summary at the top, or something like that. Not a big change, just an extra little add-on for us to use and give more information on the game. I do realize that I could put that in the actual review, but sometimes we review games right after completing them do we not? A little box with say replay hours in it could be easily updated, or edited, instead of the review itself.