I have STILL not seen everything there is to do in this game, I have yet to complete all of the quests, I have yet to obtain all of the daedric artifacts, I am still uncovering places to visit on the map and I still need to obtain all of the achievements. I am still even finding new things out, such as http://s7.postimg.org/bftmp1zgb/IMG_0016.png.

I guess what I am saying is, even though we probably won't see another Elder Scrolls for at least another 5 years should FO 4 come out (Which by the way would make it the longest time between Elder Scrolls games, nearly 10 years), Skyrim has and is still standing the ultimate test of time and I am glad I am still finding new things to do, this is such a great game

Sorry for the blog type post.

I haven't done everything there is to do in any Elder Scrolls game yet. I am a proud non-completionist.

Me neither, after... 3,721 hours, according to Steam.

Over three character builds, I must be somewhere around the 600 hour mark as well, and am always discovering new things. I just discovered Froki's shack, near Riften, quite by accident, and am just now working on the Kyne's Sacred Trials quest for the first time. How wonderful to take random "road trips" and discover these out-of-the-way places with their questlines!

There are some things I will not do, like the Dark Brotherhood line and I doubt I will ever find all the "strange gems." I do, however, find plenty of new things/places with every playthrough.

I played the Thieves Guild and Bark Brotherhood once, on one character.

I have never really bothered playing a Vampire in Skyrim beyond getting Vampirism just long enough to be able to build a Coffin in a Hearthfire Home.

I have likely more than 7000 Hours playing Skyrim and still find things I had not noticed before

Some day, after ten years, I'll finish that Hlaalu questline....

Like AIBQuirky, there are some quest lines that I simply refuse to do. Nonetheless, after 3500+ hours, pretty much every time I start a new character, there are places to see, things to do, encounters to encounter that I haven't seen before. If you start to add mods for abodes, ruins, adventures, etc., you can be certain that no matter how many hours you play, there will ALWAYS be new-to-you content, above and beyond things you just haven't experienced in the vanilla game.

Heh, I haven't done that either. Or Telvanni either, for that matter.

With me, it's not about what I won't do, it's about what my characters won't do. If I haven't done certain quests it's because I haven't yet role played a character who would do these quests.

After 4,954 hours as of today, there is a lot of content I've never experienced, questlines I've never finished, and simple game mechanics that I just don't have a complete knowledge of. Like others here, there are some things I won't do, and as Pseron Wyrd says other things my characters won't do. The thing about that atter group is that, if I build a character that will do those things, then I find that he's not a character I can like... and I can't see why I would spend so much time with a character that I don't like. Once I arrive at that point, the character's continued existence is highly doubtful.

Exactly. I am not a fan of either the Thieves Guild or Dark Brotherhood quest line but I have done both. The DB recently for the second time in 800 hours. The Thieves Guild 3 or 4 times, if it suited one of the characters. Now that there is a mod though, exterminating the Thieves Guild is my more usual path for my last two mages. I might play it again with my next more ethically flexible character.

One of the most fun playthoughs I've ever done was my girl heading straight to Riften to join the the Thieves Guild. She never even got though the gates of Whiterun and there were no dragons.

68,391 hours and all I've done is watch fish in the river and smith an iron dagger for Alvor. I'm roleplaying a character with a severe procrastination habit.

Really, yesterday, I started a new character and used the "I was attacked and left for dead" option of the Live Another Life mod. I woke up in... Where am I? I don't recognize any of this! I figured out that I was in Solstheim. I've never been there before. Being lost in Solstheim with no weapons, no armor, and no money was a small challenge.

I truly split a gut over this one.

Neat trick, having played for 68,391 hours, seeing as how since the game released on 11-11-11 less than 38,016 hours have passed. (1584 days x 24 hours)

Methinks that's why the second paragraph started with the word "Really."

I think its far more interesting that people have actually spent 3,000+ in the game, which means 10% of their life has been spent playing Skyrim. Skyrim also topped it launch numbers of 78,000 during the free weekend recently, and 5 years after its release, with 90,000 people playing it at once. It peaked today at 62,000 players, slightly ahead of Elder Scrolls Online at 3,200 . With stats like this I don't think we will see a new TES for a long time.

This game practically needs a warning label attached to it at this point...

Ditto. Once upon a time I looked at "achievements", now I pay them zero attention. I am OCD and I find the mindset that needs to get 100% of achievements is one that receives more frustration than enjoyment. I'm surprised they're there because once they've got your money and you've played the game they would prefer you to move on to the next purchase, not replay a single title over and over to get "achievements".

It also kind of amazes me how people can put thousands of hours into a game. Where do they get the time? I'm not criticizing. I'm a little envious, actually. I wish I could spend that much time playing games.

I have about 700 hours into Skyrim, unless Steam doesn't record offline mode hours, then it's probably a hundred or so more. That's a lot to me. And no, I've never finished the main quest, never done Thieves Guild or Dark Brotherhood, did destroy the Brotherhood once. Never finished the Civil War. Haven't started Dragonborn, though I like Dawnguard and have gone through that a few times. Part of that is for roleplay reasons, but I also like to "save" parts of the game for later. Like knowing I have all this stuff still to see and do helps keep the game fresh. I only went into Forelhost for the first time a few weeks ago, because I'd heard it was a great dungeon and so waited for a long while to experience it.

That sounds like an incredible amount of time, the first time you say it or hear it, but... in reality, it averages out to 2.4 hours a day. Most people who are rally into the game would spend an evening or so playing,, and what's that? I mean to me, an evening might be say four hours after dinner from 7 to 11 maybe three days a week then if you play at all on the Weekends, it averages to a lot more than 10% quickly. I\m just saying that 10% is not all that much comparatively. How much time do other people spend watching TV for instance? TV probably eats two hours a day so people can catch their soaps, then three hours a day in the evening for "prime time".

As for myself, I don't watch much TV. I'm an old guy, an my current employment is as a 24/7 caregiver. What that means is that I spend 24 hours a day 7 days a week waiting for my client to need something. I mean, I fix meals, do laundry, get drinks drive to doctor appointments, but most of my time is spent in front of my computer playing games simply because that's about the one thing I can do that has a pause option. I can stop the game and go change a bed, fix a meal, set up medications, give the client whatever care they need from baths to dressing to caring for bed sores, and go back to it without missing a thing. You really can't do that with anything else except knitting, and that's just beyond me, eh?

I haven't had a day off in three years... except when I had eye surgery... and that day I only worked half a day. Now you know why I'm insane...

I've put a lot of time into games, but just not into a single game. I probably have about 2,500 hours in various games over the last 5-ish years. I will usually play for a few weeks, get to level 40 or 50, play something else for a few months or a year and then come back to it, delete my character and start from scratch with a new role-play opportunity.

I am a completionist. Nearing 400 hours, discovered all locations and done every single quest on Solstheim. Gotten all dragon priest masks. Completed CoW, Companions and DB questline. Hoarded a buttload of unique items and put them on display in Heljarchen Hall.

Easy: spend three hours playing instead of slouching around or watching silly tv programs.

Speaking for only me, I am basically retired. I do not have a job/career to go to. I have very few "outside interests" at the moment. All my old friends and family live out of town. So... I have lots of time to play video games, among other things

I also feel that I've done every single quest with a character or another (including Jiub's pages ). It's not boring though. This game simply can't be boring.