BreOl72: To give you an idea of how "accurate" your statistics are:

Look at the user K1ller. His "hours played" amount to 53099.
Now, 53099 hours divided by 24 hours (= a day) are: ~2212.5 days.
2212.5 days divided by 365 days (= a year) are: ~6.06 years.

The user K1ller is a registered GOG user since July 2015.
Add six years to July 2015 and you are in July 2021...that was eight months ago.

Which means, the difference between the time the user is registered here, and the hours he "spent playing" during this time, amounts to eight months.

8 months divided by 6.06 years = 1.32 months/year.
How many days are that?
1.32 months times 30 (= the mathematical month) = 39.6 days/year.
And how many hours are that?
39.6 days times 24 hours (= a day) = 950.4 hours/year.
And that accumulates to how many hours a month?
950.4 hours divided by 12 (= months/year) = 79.2 hours/month.
Ok, one last time: how many hours per day would that be?
79.2 hours divided by 30 (= mathematical days/month) = 2.64 hours/day.

So - that's 2.64 hours on average per day, during the last six years, that the user K1ller did NOT spent with gaming.

Now, how credible would you rate this number?

BreOl72: To give you an idea of how "accurate" your statistics are:

Look at the user K1ller. His "hours played" amount to 53099.
Now, 53099 hours divided by 24 hours (= a day) are: ~2212.5 days.
2212.5 days divided by 365 days (= a year) are: ~6.06 years.

The user K1ller is a registered GOG user since July 2015.
Add six years to July 2015 and you are in July 2021...that was eight months ago.

Which means, the difference between the time the user is registered here, and the hours he "spent playing" during this time, amounts to eight months.

8 months divided by 6.06 years = 1.32 months/year.
How many days are that?
1.32 months times 30 (= the mathematical month) = 39.6 days/year.
And how many hours are that?
39.6 days times 24 hours (= a day) = 950.4 hours/year.
And that accumulates to how many hours a month?
950.4 hours divided by 12 (= months/year) = 79.2 hours/month.
Ok, one last time: how many hours per day would that be?
79.2 hours divided by 30 (= mathematical days/month) = 2.64 hours/day.

So - that's 2.64 hours on average per day, during the last six years, that the user K1ller did NOT spent with gaming.

Now, how credible would you rate this number?

SCPM: Bocze is also a GOG employee and owns many upcoming games and tools not available to the public. :)

ciemnogrodzianin: Even with regular games it is possible, I think. Consider only all these games removed from the store, demos of limited availability etc. Also some positions of GOG catalogue are actually bundles (as Ultima 1+2+3, some adventure games split into chapters etc.) which are unpacked after purchase and create >1 position in user's library.

Kevin04: https://www.gog.com/u/Antarian

SCPM: Impressive work. :) There is one more GOG employee for your list of Top 10 most owned games - Kiddo.Butai with 3919 as of writing:
https://www.gog.com/u/Kiddo.Butai

Kevin04: Thanks for the lists, I also like statistics. I find them interesting, even if they're incomplete due to the limited public information. Here's another big collector you missed:
https://www.gog.com/u/Antarian

BreOl72: So - that's 2.64 hours on average per day, during the last six years, that the user K1ller did NOT spent with gaming.

amok: no, we do not know if it is half or not. if it was half, it would be easy, just duobble it up. it can be 1/2, or a1/3, or 3/4, or 1/10, we just don't have the information.

AgentAndre: So I would guess about 30%-50% of the users do not use GOG Galaxy based on these (not very accurate) numbers.

Magnitus: I recall reading a guide where in order to boost the running stats of his character in Morrowind, a player stuck the joystick diagonally with an elastic band and let his character run in circles all night long.

Could be things like that.

ciemnogrodzianin: Wow, that's quite surprising for me. I'd never expect such a big share of 0-hours-players.

Is it possible to check somehow this % versus only active users? I guess there might be a lot of old users, who are no longer active GOG customers and that's the reason they've never started to use Galaxy. They should be excluded here, as they had never made a decision to use or do not use Galaxy.

ciemnogrodzianin: Wow, that's quite surprising for me. I'd never expect such a big share of 0-hours-players.

BreOl72: That sure could be.
I don't know how exactly Galaxy clocks in the "hours played" (is it hours actual spent in some game, or hours logged into galaxy, or hours the user is online in general), but one thing is for sure: there's no way that user could have actually spent these hours playing - it's physically impossible.

So, yeah - either the user wanted to boost their stats artificially (like in your example), or Galaxy simply doesn't clock in the actual playing hours properly (which is more probable in my opinion).

However...my point is: there's no point in gathering data like "hours played", if that data is wrong from the start.
That number would most probably be more aptly named:
"time spent online using Galaxy, while not necessarily being present".

But, of course - that doesn't sound as sexy as "hours played".

;)

Ancient-Red-Dragon: A few years ago a GOG employee said in a documentary that way more GOG customers do use Galaxy than those who don't.

rjbuffchix: GOG employees have also said that Galaxy will always be optional and that Cyberpunk "My Rewards" being locked behind Galaxy isn't DRM, so it isn't like we should feel a particular need to take them at their word.

That said, even if it is the case more users are on Galaxy, the data is contaminated as Galaxy has continued to be marketed as the "default" and some users may not even know offline installers exist (surely intentional imo).

To tout the contaminated data in favor of Galaxy is like saying the majority of people who installed Flash also installed Chrome or Norton crapware that was automatically checked "on" and had to be manually navigated around.

Separate from all that, I would like to echo the sentiment of another poster or two earlier in this topic...these users may not have wanted attention called to themselves (even if their stats are publicly accessible).

AgentAndre: Top 10 - Played Hours (March 26 2022)

K1ller 53099

BrianSim: ...

randomuser.833: ...

ciemnogrodzianin: (perhaps we're only 20% of a whole 15-years old userbase).