Gerardus94 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 2 hours ago, hydruxxo said: So uh...yeah, it looks like it might be broken again as of this afternoon. Anyone else? I just checked, seems to be the case, too soon to be broken again, i wonder if sony will ever fix it permanently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRetroManiac Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Lol yup it's BROKEN again for sure, pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hydruxxo Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Gerardus94 said: I just checked, seems to be the case, too soon to be broken again, i wonder if sony will ever fix it permanently. I lost hope that they'll ever fix it permanently unfortunately. I figured it'd at least make it more than a week before breaking again though, yet here we are again lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmivo Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Was it just a fluke and fixed itself quickly? It’s been working for me and my times look correct (in line with PS Tracker), but I didn’t play much between the years so may have skipped the issue. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRetroManiac Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 1 hour ago, mrmivo said: Was it just a fluke and fixed itself quickly? It’s been working for me and my times look correct (in line with PS Tracker), but I didn’t play much between the years so may have skipped the issue. Yeah, it was fixed pretty quickly, which makes a change. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RED-Z0nY- Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 The hours played on my end is delayed for several minutes to half an hour. Normally it would update right away after closing a game, but it's better than not updating at all ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hydruxxo Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Seems busted again to me. Been over an hour since I played something and it still hasn't updated. I'm so tired of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmivo Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Yeah. I just put down my console playtime as of Dec 31, on my spreadsheet, and from now on add the monthly hours from the PS Timetracker log - for games that I started before I began using the tracker. For "newer" games, I just use the tracker times. It's surprising to me that Sony can't get a basic feature like this working. I've never had problems of this type in 20 years of using Steam. Nintendo's online is fairly poor, and their time tracking also has issues (won't track properly if you use two consoles, only goes up in 5 hour increments, is not properly saved on the server side), but as long as you use one console, it's accurate on the console. Sony, whose online architecture is far superior, can't get this right, even though the annual summary showed that they do have correct data. It's just not the data shown on the console. Well, eventually they'll fix it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gildo1993 Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 (edited) Currently using https://ps-timetracker.com/ to track my times and it's all good now. Their tracking bot thing is extremely accurate. Sony's attempt at tracking times is just subpar and not good, unfortunately. Would much rather not have to rely on third party sites to do that, but what can we do. Edited January 7, 2023 by Gildo1993 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starcrunch061 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 On 1/4/2023 at 4:19 PM, mrmivo said: It's surprising to me that Sony can't get a basic feature like this working. Theoretically, maybe, but Sony manages to screw up a lot if things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hydruxxo Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 (edited) Edit: nevermind Edited January 29, 2023 by hydruxxo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sicho Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 sorry I have not read the whole thread so I don't know if someone else already had the same idea but my assumption is that, at least on PS4, it kept counting when you put the console in Rest mode while the game was still running. As much as I loved Bloodborne, I haven't played it for 127 hours I also haven't played Witcher 3 for 202 hours and I'm also quite sure I didn't clock 160 hours in MGS V or 102h in WWE 2K18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNMotorsportUK Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 Doesn't look like it's working for me again this morning haha. About right for it breaking every month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RED-Z0nY- Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 The times are only delayed on my end. The games will update after 10-15 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galserik Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 I think it always worked like shit. I have lots of games that I played 60-70-80hrs and the tracker says 10. O even the same game split in 2 tracking 2hrs and 30hrs... things like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmivo Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 Yep, it seems to be generally unreliable even when there are no week-long outages. I manually (on paper) tracked my times, and also with the PS-Timetracker site, in January. My manual results match the tracking site’s numbers, but the times recorded on the console are partially inaccurate. Five hours missing here, ten there. I’m now just using the site for getting numbers and add them to my spreadsheet once a month. That takes the least amount of effort and probably gives me the most accurate stats. Would still be better if the console tracking worked reliably, especially since we know from the yearly recaps that Sony does have accurate data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The3PointSha Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 I've noticed my time update after closing app. If the app is open and I check, it doesn't change. At least not on Dead Space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiefMichigan Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Most of my times tend to be pretty accurate, but recently it's not been tallying Persona 3 properly. I have over 40 hours into it right now, and my PSN profile says 29 hours. Goat Simulator 3 is also off by about 2-3 hours. I think I put over 12 into it, but PSN says 9 hours. Fingers crossed it doesn't get more inaccurate and they find a way to make the timekeeping more accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long-Ryde Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 OKay so in my experience, coming from someone who also times their gaming on Toggl (a separate app), The Time played feature is pretty accurate for something that's assuming when I'm actually playing the game. I usually start my timer when I get into the game, not at the start screen in case I want to smoke or chill for a second before playing. So I'll have the game open for longer than I'm actually playing on Toggl, but the times match like 80% of the time. In the cases when they don't match, it's either off by a handful of hours, or says like 0 or 1 hour, so I'm not sure what's up with that. Overall, when it's accurate, it's accurate, but there must be something funky with when i starts and stops your gameplay time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hydruxxo Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 Yeah it seems busted again. Hasn't updated for the last day or so for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedah Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 Bugged for me as well. I've been turboing Injustice 2 for the past 72 hours through remote play on my PC and it's saying I've played 0 hours. Unless remote play doesn't count the hours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hydruxxo Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 (edited) What makes this bug even worse now is that with the latest PS5 firmware beta it now shows each game's time played tracker on the front page underneath the game tile in addition to it being in your profile like it already was. It's just crazy to me that they're putting even more of an emphasis on showing the time played for games but still put no effort into fixing the bug that has been making the time played tracker be inconsistent and inaccurate for over a year. Edited February 4, 2023 by hydruxxo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNMotorsportUK Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 38 minutes ago, hydruxxo said: What makes this bug even worse now is that with the latest PS5 firmware beta it now shows each game's time played tracker on the front page underneath the game tile in addition to it being in your profile like it already was. It's just crazy to me that they're putting even more of an emphasis on showing the time played for games but still put no effort into fixing the bug that has been making the time played tracker be inconsistent and inaccurate for over a year. Might be why it's not working again too. I have no interest I Discord on my ps5. If I want to chat to players on other platforms I'll use them platforms. The time played not working does annoy me as i like things to work. If steam and Microsoft can get this right, why can't Sony.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmivo Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 I think at this point my main hope is that Sony switches to using the other set of data they collect (the one they use for annual recaps and that can be requested from them under GDPR/CCPA regulations), as that data seems to be accurate. Even if they fixed the monthly recurring issue with local tracking, the old data of the past two years would still be flawed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronM1tchell Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 Think its busted again, played for the first time in a week last night, not tracking 12 hours of DiRT 5 rip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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