Way to go, Steam

It seems that, without even trying, I've found a way to make Steam think I spend all of my free time playing video games. The way Steam works is that it gives you a menu of all the games you've bought and installed (through Steam). When you open a game, it tracks how long that program stays open, and from that it calculates how much time you spend playing a game. It then gives you a rating from 1 to 10, so your friends can tell exactly how much time you've spent playing games.


In the case of Grand Theft Auto IV, the Steam link opens Rockstar Social Club, which is a program designed to manage online multiplayer and updates for the game. As long as this program is open, Steam thinks I'm playing the game. Since I usually leave this program open even when I'm not playing, Steam thinks I'm playing all the time. The result of this is that Steam thinks I've spent a good portion of my life playing GTA IV, and the result is as shown in the pic.

For the record, there is no way I've played the game that much in the past two weeks. It might be five or six hours, but no more.


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The drones all slave away, they're working overtime