Play time issue.
There's this weird bug or glitch or whatever where my total play time is shown incorrectly.

In my library it says I have spent 174.4 hours in Persona 4 Golden (as of writing this), this also shows when I go to my profile and click on 'All Recently Played'. But whenever I open the game it says I have 173.2 hours in the game (agains as of writing this), this is also shown in my review with it saying '173.2 hrs on record'.

This isn't a big issue, far from it, but it annoys me ever so slightly.
I have no idea if this is only a thing on my end, and that if somebody clicks on my profile they see 173.2 instead of the 174.4, because I can only look at my profile via incognito mode, and from there I can only see the recent activity and my review which both says 173, if I want to look at 'All Recently Played' I would need to make an account.

I just want to know if this is even fixable, because I looked online and can't find enything that says "do this and it'll be fixed", and the things that are supossed to fix it don't work for me.
I know play time doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but I'm very peculiar about this, I just want it to say one or the other.

The only thing I can think about that is causing this is that I played P4G when Steam was down for maintenance a few times and that's what messing with the times, but you would think the time would fix itself once mantenance is complete.
I also read that Sleep Mode could affect the time played being shown wrong, and maybe that is the case here, but I'm 99% sure the time I put my Deck in Sleep Mode whilst the game was running adds up to more than a 1.2 hour difference.
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Play time is counted the second you open the game file. It doesn't matter if you're actually playing the game or not. The in-game counter may different slightly.

Not a bug.
Brem 12 hours ago 
Originally posted by Hi Im Swat:
Play time is counted the second you open the game file. It doesn't matter if you're actually playing the game or not. The in-game counter may different slightly.

Not a bug.
No I'm not talking about the ingame time.
I mean that in the library it says 174.4 hours, but on my profile and by my review it says 173.2
The library time goes back to 173.2 after I open the game, but when I look at another game and go back it's 174.4 again.
Yea, this is weird. I only experienced this with DLC's myself. I actually complained how the DLC show the wrong times when you play them alot of times. Basically, it is designed to add the time to the main time of the vanilla game. It sounds kinda similiar to this thing, but since the game does not have dlc, maybe it is different?
You most likely played while being offline or steam servers went down for that 1 hour
Brem 10 hours ago 
Originally posted by Vaulty:
You most likely played while being offline or steam servers went down for that 1 hour
I guess that has to be it, because I had a few times that after a battle I was disconnected from the online feature.
I just find it weird that Steam keeps flip flopping between 173 and 174 hours, like either count the time or don't.

Anyways I guess there isn't a way to fix this minor yet annoying bug? Like I said in the post you would assume the time would fix itself once you're connected again.


I didn't mention this in the post because it felt not that important and is mostly speculation, but for some reason it feels like as if the time stays the same up until I start up my PC.
Had 173.2 hours on my Deck, went out for a few hours, came back and time was the same, started up my PC, time is now 174.4
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