is there a way to see your total time played on the game across all characters/factions combined…or do you have to manually do /played on each played characters…
been playing on/off since mid TBC was wondering how many actual hours I’ve dumped into this game
You can try Altoholic if you don’t mind an addon -
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/altoholic
You’ll have to log in all your characters to get the data though.
Don’t do what Mute says!!! You DON’T want to know IS the answer!
It’s such a trick, don’t fall for it!!! Ummm…worlds will be destroyed if you know….somethings must remain unseen…what’s beyond the end of the universe and other assorted mysteries that will remain such…
…pretty much what Mute says is the only way to know. 
You’ve been warned…
I mean… I myself won’t do it 
I did it.
Almost 500 days total.
Not much, because I routinely delete all my characters. Venture a guess, I’d say 11 days total. Don’t ask me why I do it.
Okay so I have too much time on my hands…just did /played on all characters here’s the results which I found kind of interesting. Keep in mind I started playing WoW in 2007 for me.
Days:
73 + 25 + 4 + 7 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 21 + 41 + 1 + 2 + 7 + 22 + 59 + 50 + 7 + 30 + 65 + 12 + 37 + 4 + 2 + 54 + 22 + 308 + 13 + 8 + 8
= 900 days
hours:
18 + 18 + 13 + 8 + 23 + 13 + 2 + 16 + 15 + 17 + 18 + 16 + 7 + 6 + 6 + 22 + 12 + 3 +17 + 23 + 14 + 44 + 52 + 7 + 15 + 16 + 15 + 17 + 8 + 5 + 14 + 17 + 1 + 3 + 6 + 1 + 20 + 9 + 15 + 9 + 11 + 1
= 573 or 23.875days
minutes:
32 + 23 + 38 + 52 + 30 + 55 + 19 + 23 + 20 + 58 + 36 + 57 + 28 + 45 + 39 + 13 + 43 + 28 + 19 + 12 + 41 + 37 + 23 + 40 + 17 + 51 + 58 + 39 + 36 + 26 + 24 + 12 + 18 + 26 + 26 + 31 + 58 + 40 + 55 + 18 + 25 + 14 + 22 + 4
= 1411 or 23.52 hours
Total ≈ 925 days
if I include seconds and deleted characters I would estimate 950 days or 2.6 years.
Fun fact, I’m still in a guild where every member has been offline for at least 7months and the GM has been gone for 3 years lol