I honestly don't get it. I've been playing the same game for about three months of real time now and clocked in about 120 hours. I didn't play anything else and and it's consuming most of the time I have to myself. The game is Witcher 3.
Now, that means every 1000 hours would take me 25 months or just over two years of playing a game exclusively. Probably more since my data above includes my Christmas vacation, which was quite lengthy. No single game is good enough to take such a big place in my life. I could play so many shorter better games.
I put 800 hours into TF2 over the course of a summer.. I was wrongfully terminated from my job and got a good chunk of money, so I just played Hats all day every day.
In 3 months ~64 day would be weekdays and ~26 days would be weekends.
So a likely scenario is 64*4+26*9.4
For me this kind of distribution is plausible during phases when I'm really into a specific game. I'm 31, single, full time employed (which means 42 hours per week, or 8.4 a day, here in Switzerland).
I'm not that big into single player games but for multiplayer I usually stick to 1 at a time.
Think my steam shows a total of 10k hours over the past 12 years, with 95% of my games played there.
With less hours played each year as higher education cost me more hours of studying.
Not really. It depends on the game and also the individual. About 50/50 I suppose.
Games like Warframe, Skyrim, Civ or generally competitive games tend to be the ones where you'd find more people with quadruple digits of playtime rather than let's say more narrowed down single player experiences (without mod support) though there are some cases for those too ofc.