It’s a generous estimate that it takes 30 seconds for the coach/death/rez screens to load. I would also estimate that the average player will see that loading screen about 8 times an hour. It takes 5 coaches alone to get from FP to CLW. Now add in the return home, random deaths, and rezzes. During the 23 quest chain, a player could easily see that loading screen 20 times an hour.
Some basic math here:
8 coaches x 30 seconds = 4 minutes per hours spent loading.
I would estimate that I play 2 hours a day on average. Some days it’s a lot more, some days a lot less, if none at all. I have played this game from March 2003 through July 2005, then the last 3 months. Total, that’s 32 months of play time.
If we assume I played for 2 hours a day on average, that’s about 1,920 hours total. (Also assuming there are 30 days in a month.)
1,920 hours x 4 minutes per hour = 7,680 minutes spent waiting for the screen to load, or 128 hours, or 5 days and 8 hours!
This isn’t even including the 2 minutes or more spent loading up the game… or BSOD’s. But over 5 days of my life spent watching that damn gear.
Those gears still haunt me to this day…
Hey Ayrica… how are things going?
You sit and watch the loading screen? Jeeze you gotta multi task!