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Old 03/19/2012, 07:52 pm   #1672
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Originally Posted by Chyron8472 View Post
Several Steam games of mine have misleading (ie. inflated) play times shown for them because I have nasty habit of leaving my game running paused in the background without turning it off. It's a habit I picked up from the old console days for games with no manual save option (yet lately I've been doing this to games like Mass Effect, Just Cause 2, Arkham Asylum and Saints Row 2).

Does anyone else do this?
I do it on my PC. Mainly because I'll be playing just fine and then one of my parents calls me away for something. I think it will be short so I pause the game and it ends up taking three hours.

I've since learned to also SAVE my game when I pause it.
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