“I haven’t played 464,517 hours”, he’s been playing FPS for 53 years, except it seems to be a problem with his PS5…

When we love, we don’t count, and this is even more true for our favorites – games on which we can spend very long hours without passing time. But this player may have broken all the records. When he saw his playtime on one of his FPS games, the number left him speechless.

53 years of the game

A player wanted to check how many hours he had spent on the FPS DOOM Eternal and since then his surprise was total The figure shown was 464,517 hours, or just over 53 years. Shame when we know that the game was released only in 2020.

“A mistake isn’t it? I haven’t played this game.” he said on Reddit. And apparently, this is indeed a bug that can be discovered by digging into the bowels of the PlayStation 5. Apparently, the problem comes from the Unix system. This operating system appeared in the early 70s and gave birth to BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), another system whose code is found today in the PS5 or Xbox series, and is used to measure the passage of time.

Except that it can sometimes work, and measure time incorrectly, and in both directions (it can also display a lower figure than reality). good news, That is, it is easily configured during system updates.

A very happy community

If, in the end, this discovery upset our player, it most delighted the community, who were quick to draw a parallel between the astronomical number of hours of play and its level.

• “My God, over 400,000 hours and still no platinum”
• “It shouldn’t take this long to get platinum, it’s an abuse of ID software”

But the funniest comment comes from MADMACmk1: “Time flows differently in Hell.”. A perfectly acceptable explanation.