# Can We Still See How Many Hours We’ve Played? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [January 12, 2025, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850 "2025-01-12T12:27:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kaythleen\_Wisperwind](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kaythleen_wisperwind/32/447278_2.png) [@Kaythleen\_Wisperwind](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kaythleen_Wisperwind)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/1 "2025-01-12T12:27:50Z")
I’ve noticed we can no longer easily see how many hours a character has been online, or at least I can’t figure out how to do it. This used to be a feature in the game, but now it seems to be gone—or maybe there’s a workaround I’m not aware of? I even opened a ticket to ask for this info, but the response I got was that the Player Experience team can’t provide it anymore. This is disappointing, especially for a game like EVE where we invest so much time and effort. For many of us, EVE is more than just a game—it’s a huge part of our lives. Seeing how many hours we’ve dedicated to it is a meaningful way to reflect on our journey and the impact this game has had. If the feature has been removed, I’d love to see it brought back. And if it’s still possible to access this info somehow, can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks for your time, and I hope the devs take this into consideration! Fly safe, ---
**Author:** ![Kezrai\_Charzai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kezrai_charzai/32/394578_2.png) [@Kezrai\_Charzai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kezrai_Charzai)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/2 "2025-01-12T12:48:56Z")
You used to be able to access the external data interface (ESI) to access character data that included your time in-game. CCP removed that data point about 3 years ago, when they did some changes to the system. This request pops up quite frequently over the years, but as many players seem horrified by the idea as interested. As far as I know there’s been no way to track your time in-game since then, except through something external - like Steam tracks your hours in a game if you play through Steam, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Gloria\_Exercitus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gloria_exercitus/32/509735_2.png) [@Gloria\_Exercitus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gloria_Exercitus)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/3 "2025-01-12T13:08:41Z")
> [@Kezrai\_Charzai](#): > > but as many players seem horrified by the idea as interested. Eeeek… ![eve_time](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/f/8/6/f862a20dccfee81b9d14156e8094a5d2871cfbfd.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Kaythleen\_Wisperwind](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kaythleen_wisperwind/32/447278_2.png) [@Kaythleen\_Wisperwind](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kaythleen_Wisperwind)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/4 "2025-01-12T14:43:00Z")
Steam tracks in a very generic way the online time, There are no stats per account or character, probably more than half of my online time was before my account was linked to Steam. I remember some years ago we were getting the stats per character via email, which was amazing, but now there is less and less data. ---
**Author:** ![Akkar\_Kardashev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/akkar_kardashev/32/514189_2.png) [@Akkar\_Kardashev](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Akkar_Kardashev)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/5 "2025-01-12T14:52:30Z")
Steam calls me out every time I open the game, I’d rather it didn’t 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Gloria\_Exercitus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gloria_exercitus/32/509735_2.png) [@Gloria\_Exercitus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gloria_Exercitus)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/6 "2025-01-12T15:12:08Z")
> [@Kaythleen\_Wisperwind](#): > > Steam tracks in a very generic way the online time, Steam has only in the past few years stored the figures permanently, as I seem to recall that every time I re-installed Windows all the counters would reset to zero so it must have been stored locally before that. You could probably deduce your online time from the ‘Game Logs’ ( EVE/Logs/Gamelogs ) which have start and end time and player character in each log. A really short one from yesterday… * * * ## Gamelog Listener: Gloria Exercitus Session Started: 2025.01.11 12:24:35 [2025.01.11 12:24:36] (hint) Attempting to join a channel [2025.01.11 12:27:35] (question) Are you sure you want to quit the game? ---
**Author:** ![Kezrai\_Charzai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kezrai_charzai/32/394578_2.png) [@Kezrai\_Charzai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kezrai_Charzai)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/7 "2025-01-12T15:31:43Z")
Someone posted a link for adding up your logs a ways back, I haven’t checked it myself: > [@How can I check my total amount of time spent for EVE Online](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-can-i-check-my-total-amount-of-time-spent-for-eve-online/320122/14): > > Interesting question… do you leave your logs forever like I do? Then a small script might work. For example on Windows you might use Powershell. I only want 2021 here: $datetimeregex = '\d{4}.\d{2}.\d{2}\s+\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}' $datetimeformat = "yyyy.MM.dd HH:mm:ss" $filefilteryear = "2021" $f =Get-ChildItem ([environment]::getfolderpath("mydocuments") + "\EVE\logs\Gamelogs\$filefilteryear" + "\*.txt" ) $played = New-TimeSpan foreach ($l in $f) { $a = Get-Content($l) try { $start = [dateTime]::Pa… ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Rose\_Ivory](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/princess_rose_ivory/32/433985_2.png) [@Princess\_Rose\_Ivory](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Princess_Rose_Ivory)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/8 "2025-01-12T16:06:48Z")
Another game I use to play used a slash command from chat. /timeplayed or something to that affect. The chat would return the time in days, hours, and minutes. Even so, it really never reflects the active time in any game. I get distracted and go places leaving this and other games to idle. Since the game has no inactivity timer – Thank God! – the game could run a few days in the background without you taking notice. I tend to estimate, I play as much as 2 to 4 hours per day on Tuesday and Wednesday, as much as 6 to 8 per day on the weekend. Roughly 16 to 20 hours per week, 52 weeks per year is 1,040 per year and I have played this from the summer of 2023. I suspect over 2,000 hours by this summer, anything beyond that is just me being AFK because I went to the store with my sister, family visits, or dialysis days where I forgot to log out. Personally we do we really need a reminder of our time spent having fun? Have fun! ---
**Author:** ![Eternus8lux8lucis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/eternus8lux8lucis/32/385152_2.png) [@Eternus8lux8lucis](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Eternus8lux8lucis)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/9 "2025-01-12T22:52:09Z")
Back in the day we used to leave eve open just for “numbers” and creating the illusion we might be there or might not be for potential enemies. I suspect its still a thing in many areas of the game to this day. PsyOps are real mmkay! ---
**Author:** ![MB\_ThePhotographer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mb_thephotographer/32/373722_2.png) [@MB\_ThePhotographer](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/MB_ThePhotographer)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/10 "2025-01-13T04:02:58Z")
> [@Eternus8lux8lucis](#): > > PsyOps A real problem for us back then was who were their spy’s? I needed a 3rd toon to circumvent this. ---
**Author:** ![Eternus8lux8lucis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/eternus8lux8lucis/32/385152_2.png) [@Eternus8lux8lucis](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Eternus8lux8lucis)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/11 "2025-01-13T04:06:35Z")
The obvious was youd have one blue guy log off and about 5mins to an hour later a neut/red would come into the scene snooping around. But it was every day they were online, then the red would stick around for anything juicy and easy for a couple and then leave and log off. ---
**Author:** ![MB\_ThePhotographer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mb_thephotographer/32/373722_2.png) [@MB\_ThePhotographer](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/MB_ThePhotographer)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 4:12am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/12 "2025-01-13T04:12:27Z")
We had a spider web of alts looking for null blk alts. [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/c/7/d/c7de1b133b31c415edeefa7e62e7941884722c93.jpeg "MAD - Spy vs Spy - Season 1 Complete") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onR7PD3Grc0) ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Azariah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mike_azariah/32/512626_2.png) [@Mike\_Azariah](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mike_Azariah)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/13 "2025-01-13T18:28:23Z")
I asked for my numbers once, now I hope my wife never learns of the total. m ---
**Author:** ![Aisha\_Katalen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aisha_katalen/32/387724_2.png) [@Aisha\_Katalen](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aisha_Katalen)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/14 "2025-01-13T18:46:10Z")
Now I have the C64 Spy vs Spy music in my head, again. ---
**Author:** ![MB\_ThePhotographer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mb_thephotographer/32/373722_2.png) [@MB\_ThePhotographer](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/MB_ThePhotographer)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:38am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/15 "2025-01-14T03:38:21Z")
> [@Mike\_Azariah](#): > > my wife My wife’s toon is more deadly than I am in a way as the “Redhead/now ex Black Belt 😆” is my main scout. I could not find Major Tom without her. ![Major Tom](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/3/3/3/3338f504dcfa0de607668bce04689df3324abf0f.jpeg) She can find you in 2 sweeps. It’s so fast, most won’t even see her probes. ☠ ---
**Author:** ![Kaythleen\_Wisperwind](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kaythleen_wisperwind/32/447278_2.png) [@Kaythleen\_Wisperwind](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kaythleen_Wisperwind)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/16 "2025-01-28T21:46:24Z")
> [@Gloria\_Exercitus](#): > > You could probably deduce your online time from the ‘Game Logs’ ( EVE/Logs/Gamelogs ) which have start and end time and player character in each log. A really short one from yesterday… I’ve seen at least 3 computers go from top hardware to utterly outdated in this journey, I am pretty sure I don’t have all the logs ---
**Author:** ![Zayne\_Neilson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zayne_neilson/32/451183_2.png) [@Zayne\_Neilson](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zayne_Neilson)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/17 "2025-02-21T03:20:12Z")
Still have all my logs from since 2015 because I copied all my user data from my last PC. 166.9694 Hours, not as much as I was expecting. Side effect of being in highschool for most of my playtime before I quit. EDIT: Actually it should be a LOT more than that, I started playing in January 2014, so it’s missing an entire year and a half (logs start June 2015). ---
**Author:** ![Gealbhan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gealbhan/32/452651_2.png) [@Gealbhan](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gealbhan)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/18 "2025-02-21T13:22:58Z")
90 hours played according to steam. ---
**Author:** ![Gerard\_Amatin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gerard_amatin/32/481361_2.png) [@Gerard\_Amatin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gerard_Amatin)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/19 "2025-02-21T14:55:55Z")
I don’t think I want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Epeen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mr_epeen/32/373308_2.png) [@Mr\_Epeen](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mr_Epeen)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850/20 "2025-02-21T15:11:29Z")
Here’s the hours for FO4, a game I’ve played maybe 1/100th as much as I’ve played EVE: ![fo4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/c/4/5/c45e71bc4e046cf5a411d2bc36bfe67cedfe827c.png) So let me do the math and… OH ■■■■! Mr Epeen 🕶 [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/can-we-still-see-how-many-hours-we-ve-played/473850.md?page=2)