And yet people spend way more time in multiplayer games. Thousands of hours in MOBAs etc.
The amount of time spent on a game does not necessarily correlate with one's enjoyment of it. There are few games I've spent as many hours on as I did with LoL between 2011-2013, but I don't consider it a good game, not even back when I played it was it have been anywhere near my favorite games, it was just an easy game to pick up and play with friends. Hearthstone was the same thing for me, as well as some of the worse WoW expansions.
I think with a lot of online multiplayer games it's also really difficult to rate them in comparison to singleplayer experiences. Literally the only reason I ever play a multiplayer game is to play it with friends, so do I take that and my experiences I've had with my friends into the equation, or do I just look at the game in a vacuum? Online multiplayer games are always evolving as well, so in the case of a game that regularly receives patches, do I pick the current version of the game or the version that I liked the most?
It's so much more simple to rate singleplayer games, because it's just you and the game, there are no outside factors that come in and influence the experience in a meaningful way (most of the time at least). Furthermore, a short and focused game can give you a much better time than one you might have squeezed even 10 times more hours out of. I know there are a lot of games that I've completed within 10 or maybe even 5 hours that I prefer over ones I've played for over 1000 hours.
