Hours shouldn't be publicly displayed
 

I don't have too many hours myself but the amount of harassment I see over hours is sickening.

If someone has a lot of hours on any server, they'll end up getting targetted for their hours or arguments quickly degenerate from:

Guy with 3000 + hours: <says something logical>
Guy with maybe 500-1000 hours: LOL U HAVE NO LIFE OMG LOOK AT THOSE HOURS
Flock of idiots: OMFG 3000 HOURS GET A LIFE BRO GET A LIFE

Some people are just randomly targetted for their hours if someone is looking for a fight.

This isn't too big of a deal but if hours weren't displayed publicly anymore it'd be one of those things that would make the game nicer overall.

Players can be harassed for other things in their profiles like age, favorite quote, etc, but hours are something they can't take out or hide and it's kind of silly tbh.

There were players on Classic that had close to 20,000 hours. I don't think anybody would insult Pirat or Sting.

Noobs are just jealous.

It's true that some people tend to make fun of someone who has a lot of hours, but they are probably just jealous. Some people are actually respected for those hours aswell.

But hey, it happens backwards aswell, those with a lot of hours sometimes make fun of someone who is quite new to the server, and I guess you all know what they are often called: noobs.

It's not really a big deal to me, as I will just ignore someone who is probably jealous and trying to be smart by telling me what I should do.

I think it's funny.

A guy with 5000 hours on WoW? Maybe I can understand that; there's hundreds upon thousands of players on at once to interact with, and tons of interesting quests..

But on Graal, there's around 100 players online average. 5000 hours on Graal shows your anti-social in real life and in the game :)

Out of 100 people you can't find one that you could spend 5000 hours hanging out with?

Yeah bro. People with hours are tons anti-social.

How many people are in your family and how many hours do you spend with them?

You mean 100 per server?
I can understand having a lot of hours, considering a lot of people have played for close to 10 years..

lol I forgot to mention that having high hours can actually serve as a source of embarrassment for certain players. I know someone that had 6k hours of UN and was so embarrassed because she got harassed a lot that she got a new account off her friend.

It'd just be way better overall if there was a way to hide them or it was taken out.

These "get a live" phrases are coming mostly from jealous kids. It's a simple calculation example: 20 hours a week results in >5 k hours over 5 years. Some plays this game since 2001 so it's nothing special to have 3 k hours.

I wouldn't exactly call them jealous. Whenever I first started playing Graal it was the complete opposite of what it is today. I'd get a lot of comments like "stfu you're a noob with less then 100 hours".

Now the people I see never call people noobs for hours, and people will just insult others for having more hours to them.

Just isn't same, really..

I have a friend that actually checks people's hours on a daily basis and is like "Wow ___ was on 12 hours yesterday." and will go harass them >_<

Well with scripted profiles in V6 this is one of those things that could be added to a toggle, hell the whole thing could be revamped.

I hope your friend thinks about what they're doing before even considering saying "Get a life" to whoever they check up on.

hours are the best gtfo

I'd still like to know how many hours across all servers combined I have, and possibly even a shortlist of like "Top 5 servers you've logged into", y'know...just for kicks.

This wouldn't be fair for all of you, because I'd win.
A long time ago, I had fun setting my hours on my own server. I think last time I did this, I typed in something like 500k... :rolleyes:

I have nearly 6,000 hours on Classic and I don't mind either way.