How much do you play?

[Teufel Hunden]

I just ran into a guy talking smack in Killzone 2 about how many "wins" he has in the game.

I checked out Killzone.com and found he has played an average of 6 hours a day (every day, ~40 per week, >1000 hours total) since launch, and I thought that was kind of strange to brag about. That and his main topic was that I should get a job

Anyone else put this much time into a single game, over SIX MONTHS?

[Mr. J]

hell no...

[Seeking_Alpha]

The most recent was oblivion, I played over 200 hours in 3 months.

The most I've played in my life was probably Counter Strike back in college. I played for 12 hours straight sometimes. Ah good times...

I am sure some WOW players will chime in.

[Teufel Hunden]

Originally Posted by Seeking_Alpha

I am sure some WOW players will chime in.

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[Diesel]

5-15 for me on average. Sometimes more, sometimes less.

Some days if I have nothing else need to be done, then I'll sit and play for like 5 hours in one sitting.

Then probably won't play for the next two days (sometimes).


If I play it is usually for at least an hour, if I can't sit down and devote an hour to the game, then I just wait until I can.

[Bizdady]

I quit hardcore gaming after my ffxi crack addiction. My son keeps me busy most of the time now so gotta game in between his schedule lol

[SoCalTiger]

Originally Posted by Seeking_Alpha

I am sure some WOW players will chime in.

Yeah right. They are kind of too busy to be answering non-WOW related polls. =P

[Groo The Perverted]

I dunno but I play off/on a lot. But not many games so...*shrugs*

[ZedsDead]

Actually I don't get to play nearly as much as I would like too. I probably average about 5-7 hours a month if I am lucky lately. But even if I had all of the free time in the world I would never play nearly as much as this Killzone player you're talking about, that's just sad.

[Weirded Wonder]

I have lost plenty of friends to the WOW. Most of those people are pretty sad. I know two that have lost their jobs because of this game, one that failed out of college, and one person that ended their relationship in a divorce. I try to enjoy other things in life, try to have a good balance of things, the key word being try of course. I don't always balance it. There are some weeks I play for 8-10 hours a day for a week, then I won't play again for 2 or 3 weeks. Sometimes there just isn't anything more important to do, that's when I play.

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

i use my ps3 alot! but for blu ray movies mostly, the only two games i own rite now are cod 4 and uncharted, i only play cod 4 when my buddies are online, and im playing uncharted on crushing so im jus takin my time

[TL OWNS U]

I play about 30 hours a week.

[Skunkster]

I was playing WoW at least that much two different times (right after launch and about 2 years later when I hooked up with some friends that were playing). Fortunately I was able to find a 12 step program...ok. I quit cold turkey. (Withdrawel was hell. I know how smokers feel when they try to quit. )

Now I play about 2-3 hours 2 to 4 days a week. It's a lot more fun when my friends are online playing CoDWaW. I'm sure I'll increase that some when CoDMW2 and GT5 come out.

[Grim Reaper]

over 30 a week...

[Buddy Christ]

Lets be honest folks, between our posts here, or love for watching Blu's and maybe games. That does not leave much for a social life. I quit games to get some human interaction.

[Teufel Hunden]

Originally Posted by Blu2U

Lets be honest folks, between our posts here, or love for watching Blu's and maybe games. That does not leave much for a social life. I quit games to get some human interaction.

And yet you still post here.

I bought a headset to get human interaction

[El Negro]

I play 10-15 hours a week. 1 day after MVC2 was out someone had 300+ wins, damn this guy must have nothing else to do.

[JonD7]

I play for around 3 hours a day.

[toef]

I gave WoW a try a few years ago, when I was finishing up undergrad, and that game sucked me in. I had time off in between the end of undergrad, and the start of grad school, so I passed a few hours each day playing WoW, and after about two months, got kind of bored with it.

Skip ahead a few years, and I started playing it again (I don't pay for it, which is part of the appeal... I'd never pay $15 a month to play anything). After about a month of playing it again, I'm already kind of bored of it. I realized I was spending most of my time on there trying to figure out ways to make tons of gold, but never really thought about why I would even want to have a lot of gold. So now I lost interest in it. Although I am kind of fascinated by the Auction House, and how the economy works within the game, so I've experimented with trying to control prices within the economy by creating a monopoly for a particular item, or driving prices way down on certain items, just to see how other sellers would respond to what I was doing.

But in that span of time, since trying out WoW again, that's the only game I've played... I haven't turned my PS3 on in weeks.

Now that I'm older, I feel like if I'm just playing a game to pass time, I'll go find something else to do. And if I'm not feeling really entertained by a game, I'll turn it off.

[Glassroots]

Some weeks 5-15hrs and then I can go a couple weeks without playing. I am by no means a hardcore gamer. For some reason I can play sports games for long periods of time but action games demand a level of concentration that literally makes me nauseated after a short while. Can't really explain it.