Last week I crossed the 1000 hour mark in CS:GO. This on its own isn't a particularly incredible feat. Many, many people have spent many, many more hours in this and other games. I have spent probably that much time in World of Warcraft. I have spent nearly 1500 hours in Team Fortress 2. The difference is the time it took to hit those landmarks. Warcraft is a good 10 years old at this point and TF2 has been around a good 7 years itself. CS:GO released in 2012 and I was involved in the beta a few short months before that however I didn't play it much then. Let's just call it 3 years. So 333 hours a year. Divide by 12. 27 hours a month at least since the game came out. But that's not quite right either. I moved into a lovely home in a rural area for 8 months in that period too. It was fine, except for the satellite internet. I hadn't played Counter Strike at all during that period. Let's do the maths again. . . carry the one and we're looking at closer to 36 hours a month. Assuming 4 weeks a month we've got at least an hour a day of Counter Strike over the course of 28 months. That is a lot of time to put into a game.

I want to say I don't regret it at all and that I've enjoyed every minute of those 1000 hours I have put into this game and the many hours in the others. To some extent I do feel that. It's not until I break those numbers down does it really hit home that perhaps there was something better I could have spent my time on. What games have I missed out on while I've been completely absorbed in this single one? Steam is constantly being flooded with new and interesting games. Perhaps there's something there I would have enjoyed more? Perhaps I'm thinking way too much about this.

Never mind that. I have some bombs to plant.