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What exactly would you expect? People playing the game for enjoyment will find this to be a nice gift. It's not difficult to rack up those numbers if you really like a game.

Haha...right! All you have to do is get 5 days and 20 hours of game time in before 30 November!
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Offer begins on November 1, 2012 at 5:00 Coordinated Universal Time ("UTC") and ends on November 30, 2012 at 4:59 UTC (the "Offer Period").
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I could easily log 140 hours in a week. Think I played guild wars for a total 2.5 weeks and had 160 hours
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post #13 of 28
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I could easily log 140 hours in a week. Think I played guild wars for a total 2.5 weeks and had 160 hours

Last time a checked 1 week has 168 hours. Thats would be 6 days of just gaming.
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post #14 of 28
Sounds great on the surface, except it comes out to almost five hours per day... After a week of that it'd start to feel more like work than play.
    
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Last time a checked 1 week has 168 hours. Thats would be 6 days of just gaming.

i meant a month my bad!
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post #16 of 28
its tiered 140 hours is the top, read the article for more info.

But still 140 hours is a lot of time to get to the top. Hell I'd probably go for it if I could get this game.

edit: even though you cant do much with the less rewards anyway, unless you have leftover points. If you can even get anything for just 600.
Edited by This Sanctuary - 11/7/12 at 9:10pm
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post #17 of 28
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What exactly would you expect? People playing the game for enjoyment will find this to be a nice gift. It's not difficult to rack up those numbers if you really like a game.

i would suggest buying diablo 3 and grind the living duck out of it

assuming you get to where you want to get with decent items to survive within 40 hours, you then have 100 hours to grind for items that can actually sell


with 100 hours, I'm pretty sure you can get more than $8 out of it. All it takes is one good item for you to break the $10 mark
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Also forgot to say, If you are just playing and having fun it is free money. And its not even grinding like in an MMO , aka doing a task over and over that is the exact same, like gathering in a MMO, where you are doing what some might say is boring and repetitive.

You will be playing exciting fun filled multiplayer games, which you would have played anyway.

As long as you aren't "forcing" yourself to play JUST for the points then it is free money.
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140hr isnt that much. i think i had something like 100-120hr in skyrim in the first month that it was out. if you really like a game you can easily lose track of time.
 
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post #20 of 28
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Last time a checked 1 week has 168 hours. Thats would be 6 days of just gaming.

That leaves more than enough time for sleep and food.
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