How long does it take to complete Diablo 3?

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Is there any official or inofficial information about how long it takes to play Diablo 3 to the end? I checked HowLongToBeat.com but there is no entry for the game. I only heard that someone has finished Diablo 3 already in 12 hours and 29 minutes, but I have no idea if it is quick or not.

Asked by Mehper C. Palavuzlar

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While you don't mention whether you you mean to the end of Normal, to the end of Hell, or to the end of Inferno, Blizzard views the end of Inferno to be "beating" Diablo 3. Bashiok, a Blizzard rep, suggested it may take weeks to beat Act I bosses on Inferno, which puts it at weeks or months to fully beat Diablo 3.

It only takes a handful of hours to beat Normal, which is what people would be doing currently.

Srouce: http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/bashiok-on-beating-inferno

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Does Origin track game play time?

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I don't seem to see this in the interface but am wondering if maybe behind the scenes the data is available somewhere, or in some hidden corner of the UI.

I was curious how much time I've spent in the Mass Effect universe. So I fired up Steam and checked the hours played in 1 and 2. Then I jumped to Origin to see how long I spent in 3, ... but it doesn't seem to show this information.

Is it hidden there somewhere?

Asked by eidylon

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No. Origin does not track play time in any game at all. The reason you don't see a recording of this metric is because it apparently has not been implemented. Battlefield 3's BattleLog tracks play time for that game and it's conceivable that other games may track this metric internally as well like they do achievements (which Origin also lacks at this point in time), but that would be a game by game consideration.

According to the EA support person whom I just asked whether this feature exists or is planned to be added to origin, their response was, "As such as of now, there is no such system and we do not any updates for future now." Obviously English language support is a feature that could use some revision, but I believe they were trying to say, "we do no get any updates about future plans at this time." I might tend to question the reliability of their customer support given the awkward nature of the interaction, but their customer support responses are expected to be taken as official word so do with that what you will.

The following is a transcript of the conversation substituting ##### for my name and Customer Support Person for the CSR on the other end (be warned: Their English is poor and the responses I got were bizarre at times):

Customer Support Person: Thanks for contacting EA Help! My name is Customer Support Person how may I help you?

Customer Support Person: Hello

you: Hello. I have a quick question regarding Origin: When I play a game, any game, through Origin, is my playtime being tracked anywhere? Can I view that informatio now or will I be able to in the future?

Customer Support Person: I do understand your concern, #####.

Customer Support Person: But as such there is no such thing which track your time on Origin.

you: Not my time on Origin. My time in-game.

you: I don't think anyone would care about my time on Origin.

Customer Support Person: May I know which game are you trying to play?

you: ????

you: Any game. Mass Effect 3, Kingdoms of Amalur, you name it. If I play any game on Origin, is my PLAYTIME being tracked. So if I play 2 hours in Mass Effect 3 and 4 hours in Kingdoms of Amalur, will those hours be tracked anywhere? I couldn't care less about how many hours I spend in Origin. I just leave it open all the time so it's a pointless metric.

Customer Support Person: I am not sure about it.

Customer Support Person: As for Battlefield 3, you can see your play time on Battlelog.

you: Even if you can't see it now, is playtime being recorded for other games? Will it be at some point in the future of Origin?

Customer Support Person: I would definitely make sure that this valuable suggestions of yours will be forwarded to our developers and they will definitely focussing this parameters as well.

Customer Support Person: Thank you for contacting EA. Is there anything else I can help you with today?

you: So the answer is No? Is it being recorded now? Is it in the plan for upcoming features? I'm not so much making a suggestion as asking if it is happening or is planned.

you: So, in summary: You have no idea?

Customer Support Person: As such as of now, there is no such system and we do not any updates for future now.

you: Ok that's all you needed to say. Thanks. That's everything.

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How long does the Final Fantasy XI main story take to complete?

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I'm looking for relative values here. For example, if it takes a person about 40 hours to complete the STORY ONLY for the average Final Fantasy, then how long, in comparison, would the Final Fantasy XI story take?

In other words, how much longer is the FFXI storyline completion than other Final Fantasy storylines?

This does not include expansion packs or downloadable content.

Asked by Keaanu

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The answer is it depends. If you have max-leveled well-geared friends to power level and run you through all the missions then I'd say it could probably be done in about 100-200 hours if everyone knows exactly what to do. I don't believe there's level requirements for the missions (Need to get at least level 20 to do the chocobo quest unless everyone's willing to keep you alive while you walk the whole way)

Also note that I'm taking a very conservative definition of "main story" to mean finishing your nation's mission chain, which only accounts for really about 5-10% of the story if we take not including expansions literally. With the expansions you're now talking about maybe 3-5% of the game's story. If that was all you did you would be missing out on tons of stuff.

Realistically speaking unless you have some really dedicated friends this is all theoretical because it's really hard to get a group of people together to run some low level person through the game.

Doing it normally with just people in your level range, I would expect no less than 1000 hours.

Additionally it's not really realistic to say not including expansions because I don't think you can even purchase a copy without them. Last I checked (quit the game about 2 years ago) every time they release a new expansion they bundle up all the previous expansions together and sell it for the price of the original game.

I played for 5+ years with close to 1 year of gametime and I still never finished all the main nation missions because finding people with time to help with old content is somewhat difficult. For the later missions you'd probably want to allocate at least a 3-5 hour block per mission where everyone's ready to go. Literally estimating time to do something in FF11 is like estimating software development. Take your best guess, and double it.

Some things might be easier now than when I played though, and with the new level caps you might only need 2-3 max level friends with a lot of free time instead of 5+ but overall, it's not really a question that has a direct answer.

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How long is Final Fantasy VII?

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So far I have logged 24 hours in FF VII and I just finished disc 1. Anyway, keeping that in mind, how long can I expect it to take me to get through disc 2, and then disc 3?

Asked by TheX

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If I remember well (which I may not, as it's been >5 years since I've played the game), the second disc is roughly as long as the first one, or perhaps a bit shorter. The third disc consists of the "endgame" bits -- the final dungeon, plus all the optional sidequests and bosses. Depending on how much of this side content you do, you could stretch your playtime quite far. If you just consider the main storyline, however, you're pretty much halfway through.

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How long to beat Disgaea?

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I'm wondering if I've got the right strategy at all. There seems to be an awful lot of (admittedly fun) grinding and no visible end in sight to get to complete the story. How long, rough average, in hours, does it take to beat Disgaea?

EDIT:

Are the figures shown there believable? I'm doubtful for story mode...

Asked by MPelletier

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It depends entirely on your playing style. From personal experience, a well planned and experienced play through (with abusing item world and invincible squares to power level at certain points) may take me ~10-15 hours, but since this game is all about grinding, there is really no reason to complete the story that fast.

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How can I tell how long (more or less) it will take me to complete a game?

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I'm going down my huge backlog of unplayed Steam games and I'm thinking the best way to tackle the list is to go through the shortest games first and then concentrate on the 20+ hour ones. I'm wondering if there's a website or something else that has an estimated amount of gameplay time for games.

Is there anything like that?

Asked by enriquein

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Use HowLongToBeat.com.

Answered by Mehper C. Palavuzlar

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How long is Mass Effect 3 on normal difficulty?

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How many hours does it typically take to play through the single-player campaign of Mass Effect 3 from start to finish on the default/normal difficulty level? How many hours does completing all the side quests tack on to that?

Asked by johnjon

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This is a question that no single person's experience can answer for you, as we all have different play styles, play on different difficulty levels, and play on different platforms. These can all have a large impact on overall play time.

Right now, there isn't sufficient data to answer this question. A good answer will collect data from multiple sources and take an average. That's exactly what this page on HowLongToBeat.Com aims to do, and it also breaks it down by "just main game", "main game plus side quests", etc.

Over the coming weeks as more data appears there a decent average should take shape.

Answered by Sterno

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Completion time in DX:HR

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I'm 15 hours into DX:HR and I'm playing quite thoroughly.

Approximately how many hours should a thorough player get out of the game?

If you focus on only the main missions, how quickly could it be done?

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I personally am one of those players who tries to do EVERYTHING, explore everything, find everything etc, and it took me around 40ish hours on "Give me Deus Ex". Including restarts.

I have no idea how short it can be completed, but I've heard around 10 hours? Don't quote me on that though.

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