Well, if a UK survey (2014) of avg hours awake / day is representative, most folks spend about 475 hrs / month awake.
Given that, it's a pretty safe bet that you've (possibly / probably) spent a literal month (or more) worth of waking hours just playing a single character. If you also had altitis, you may have boosted that to a year or more (~5700 hrs) worth of waking hours playing all of your characters -- particularly if you got into the game relatively early...
And, since we're talking time here, we're also getting fairly close to the 50% line -- ie. the game has been gone for almost 50% of the time (4 yrs this Dec) as it ran for (8 yrs & change from 4/2004 - 12/2012).
For some of us older farts the probability that we'll croak before it returns is becoming much, much more realistic.
...and that cheery news concludes my post here for this year -- If I'm still alive next year, I'll check back to see if TFHM negotiators have awoken from their seemingly uncommunicative comas to make any progress whatsoever on reviving the game.
ttfn,
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