'You have been playing for 1 hour.' Message - Update?

I noticed the message "You have been playing for 1 hour." popped into my chat bot a bit ago. I don't recall ever seeing it again and the search function returned results for individual words (even when using a quotes). I'm no search expert on the forums so maybe I just don't know how to search correctly.

Is this something undocumented in a recent update?

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I'm a big fan of the clock in Civ 4 and some other games, so I really like this idea. I don't know how often it says that (every hour perhaps?). I have a guildie that has to set a clock next to his monitor to time how long he's playing so he'll quit lol. I used to use a tool call nthClock to set a little clock on my second monitor for the same reason.

I think it's part of the update. I got that message also earlier today and it was the first time I've seen it.

as a veteran of 12 hour (daily) marathons...i hope to god thats not permanant.

rofl.. you remind me of a guildie of mine :-) he got nerfed for farming too much, and I told him that I'd farmed for long periods of time and it never happened to me. he asked for how long and I replied up to an hour. he just laughed.. lol

It's a great idea. I'll get wrapped up in the game and not realize how long I've played. On more than one occasion, I've looked out the window after playing for a while and realize the sun is starting to come up.

i think this is an interesting feature, but whats the purpose? I mean dont you want your players to play more?

Its puzzling to me

Hmm, weird. I also noticed, when walking into D'Alessie Seaboard that the text "Talk to blablabla" popped up. is this new for coop missions?

I would not mind having a clock up in one of one of the corners.

I like this

its probably to do with the online restrictions imposed in china recently, they are only allowed to play for so long by law

Then go ahead and put a clock on the screen... don't put up some message about how long.

No, I had that before. Part of the primary quest I think.

after 3 hours it says
you have been playing for 3 hours maybey you should take a break

But youd think they would want us online 24/7. I mean, do you see clocks in casinos...? Hell no! They dont want you to know how late it is. Is the restriction in china due to that kid playing himself to death at a cafe a while back?

thats satireing the time thing...

maybe its just for humor.... can we turn that off by chance?

"You have been playing for 3 days non-stop now, please PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER!"

"You have been playing for 1 week, we love you"

Sitting around sedentary for too long increases your risk of blod clots. Maybe they're worried their players will start dying off if they don't make them move around and get blood flowing (running to the fridge for a beer/soda doesn't count)

Lol you guys are killing me.