I was checking the leaderboard for the season wizard and other classes and I saw players with more than 1.200 hours played in season.
An example:
Wizard: 910 hours
Monk: 388 hours
Total: 1.298 hours in season
How is this possible?
How can a human play around +19 hours every day in Diablo III?
Two people sharing an account and neither one has a job. These groups of two really love Diablo and have dedicated their lives to achieving more paragon levels. They take shifts sleeping and cooking so someone can constantly play, these are dedicated, hardcore players. D3’s finest.
you can rebirth a character and it’s hours played are continued over from previous seasons
You’re not allowed to share an account.
Why would anyone care how much someone else plays D3? Does it affect your GR clear times or loot drops?
Which is a severe violation of the Terms of Service. Such cases deserve banhammer.
You’re looking at the wrong numbers. I wonder how many times this has to be explained. Do not look at the hours played by each character!!! Look at the hours played by each class in the season section of the profile!!! The season section only counts the hours played in the season and nothing else.
Rebirth is irrelevant.
Do you advocate cheating or why else are you so willing to ignore cheating? It’s utterly irrelevant whether someone potentially cheating affects you or anyone else, the fact that there is potential cheating is a problem.
If someone uses doping in sports, it doesn’t me the slightest but it’s still wrong and I hate when it happens. Cheating in online games is no different in that regard.
Can a family or roommates sharing a computer not share a Diablo account?
No. The only allowed exception is a parent/guardian sharing with a minor, that’s the only allowed case. In any other case account sharing is not allowed. Account shring is a bannable offense.
Probably a 17 year old and his Dad playing then to get hours like that 
Nice! Thanks for clearing that up.
Could easily be a streamer and that is what they do for a living. I know at least 30 people personally that all they do is sit at home, play games while streaming and making videos. With Covid being what it is right now it is easy to get in those hours.
As for the shared accounts. People can give that up. Blizzard and activation know full well it happens and let it, as it doesn’t harm anything and only makes them more money. The same reason they let botters go for as long as they do.
If you sit in town and use numlock to spam a key to stop you from being disconnected, does that count towards your hours played? I assume that the hours played on an account is the total hours you are in a game be it a rift, grift, campaign and town.
It’s not rebirth…
In-game, right-click on another player’s name and choose View Profile
Select the Seasons tab on the left
Select the current season, i.e. Season 21
Select the Summary section
This will display a screen showing all the activity in that season and in that season only. There are seven bars, one for each hero class which, when hovered over, will show the amount of time spent playing that class in that season only. Totalling the times shown in each of the seven bars will give the figure for the total amount of time played on that account in that season only. That figure is in no way related to whether none, any or all of the heroes were rebirthed or not.
Both botting and account sharing are against the rules.
19 hours a day, every day? Come on…
Maybe they setup a num lock and let their character idle in town during the night.
What is the point in that?
Proving the point that playtime and botting are not necessirally related. Is the guy a botter ? Probably. Is it possible to get that playtime without breaking ToS ? Yes.
So, despite botting / account sharing being massively more likely, you’re going with the nodding bird pressing the space bar explanation which just increases a hero’s play-time for zero benefit?
Season 21 wasn’t even worth botting. Only the most turbo no lifers bot D3 these days.
Its a job for some people. Look up short sleepers.
didn’t know that…
then it’s botting/account sharing which sadly happens A LOT in this game…like a ridiculous amount of people do it and just buy a new account every season…why cheat only to get banned and spend more money is beyond me.