osrs is a game that is by design a large time commitment, i started playing in 2021 and in the 5 years since, i’ve sunk around 6000 hours, this means ive averaged 3.28 hours a day every day since i started playing. that’s a crazy amount of time but it’s important to recognise where most of that time was allotted

i would say that more than half of my hours played were spent afk, either skilling, or waiting for people to raid, or just sat with the game open while i work on other projects, it’s easy to look at a number like 6000 hours and think ‘oh my god, thats 250 days!!!’ but it absolutely hasnt been 250 days of solid playtime. i play osrs while im eating, while im watching youtube, while im working (on mobile), or even while i was working from home. i think of osrs as an investment, i have this account that i’m so proud of that i’ve genuinely worked really hard on that is a testement to the years ive spent playing, and yes, at times i felt like osrs was taking over my life, i honestly would say that it broke up my last relationship because i didn’t have the self control to recognise that i was spending too much time playing and not enough time being in a relationship, but even after that, i have zero regrets of my time playing this game, i genuinely believe it’s the greatest game ever made, and having this quantifiable number of ‘this is what my commitment to the grind gave me’ has been a very rewarding experience.

it’s just important to recognise when you get too locked in, it really is just a game, and it should be played in a way where yes, you put hours in, you lock in sometimes and you grind something out because you really want to do so, but also you find a really nice balance of ‘yeah the games open and im working on a goal, but i’m actually just sat with my partner right now and chatting, thats the important thing’.

laura <3