Alot of people who can play 16+ hours a day do not have jobs and are on disability. Disability through a real injury, or they're just lazy POS who want to live off of our taxes. They live in a run down apartment, with a mediocore computer, without money, and play a MMORPG all day. Burden to our society type people (Not the ones with real injuries).
Originally posted by Herithius People who play 16 hours a day are mostly the unemployed. No student or person working can do it. No successful individual in life can often do it either(as being a success often requires working). Not only are they not in school or employed but it's likely they aren't actively pursuing either. Does it bother me that people do this? Not really. It's like any other addiction in the world. It's unfortunate but not much can realistically be done. The onus is on these people to realize they need to cut back because truthfuly, those +7 gauntlets don't mean squat a few months later. If push came to shove, they could feasibly play 8 hours a day and 16 hours on the weekend for a total of 72 hours a week and still hold down a job/go to school and still get a decent amount of sleep. That time commitment will guarantee you to be a dominant success in any mmorpg. Don't really need to go past that(unless they have nothing else to do in life).
Actually, there is something you, and others are forgetting. In this modern day and age, not all "F/T" jobs require 8 hours a day to work. For example, there are high level computer programmers who only need to work 1 week per month to pull in $50,000.oo per year.
There are jobs that pay big money, but require almost no work. I used to play a very old MUD and the elite players were computer operators. They spent only 1 hour of their 8 hour shift actually doing work. The rest of the shift was spent watching the computer. (I had to quit the game after 2 months because it was impossible to beat them. I'd get killed off gradually while I slept, and went about my life while away from the computer.)
Need a better example? A security guard who sits at his/her desk all day or night long. The responsiblilty is high of course. But there will never be a robbery every single hour. If they have a laptop, or computer access, they can play 7 hours during their 8 hour shift.
I even once had a computer operating job early in my career. It was part time, and I did "real work" for only 1 hour out of the 3-4 hours I was on the clock. I made $11.oo an hour. It worked out great while I was going to school. I could have stayed on after finnsihing school. If I did, I would be making $24.oo an hour right now (they gave guaranteed raises every 6 months-1 year). I could have set things up to play a mmorpg while at work.
In modern times, the high paying jobs are more about what you know , and not necessarily about how many hours you work. Or about doing intense physical work. If what you know is in demand, you litterally could work 1 hour, and make $100-$500 dollars! (Hey! sounds like some lawyers, doctors, etc... hahah )
Oh, I forgot to mention the most favorite guy known by everyone here at mmorpg.com the one and only...
Sir Bruce !!!
He worked at a great job, quit his job, and made even greater investments (this is many years ago). If he didn't blow all his loot gambling, he is easily worth between 500k to 1 million to 5 million dollars right now.
Originally posted by psydex Alot of people who can play 16+ hours a day do not have jobs and are on disability. Disability through a real injury, or they're just lazy POS who want to live off of our taxes. They live in a run down apartment, with a mediocore computer, without money, and play a MMORPG all day. Burden to our society type people (Not the ones with real injuries).
Please rephase this comment rather quickly I am disabled and not all ''have injuries' and are not certainly not a 'burden' as you so kindly put it (but I'll forgive the linching a tad due to us being in a stereotypical world), but thank you for pointing out some people have time to play MMOs to that extent and more than likly use it as a form of communitation as well as 'a game'
I can't manage more than a few hours in a sitting, really. The longest I've played in a row is probably around 12 hours or so, and I've done that maybe ... 3 or 4 times. I just don't have the energy for the longer gaming sessions, and I like to go to bed early as well (unlike a lot of gamers who tend to play a lot late at night), so my gaming mostly comes in 2-4 hour sessions in the early evenings ... and not every day, either, because I like to do other things like read and write.
Originally posted by psydexAlot of people who can play 16+ hours a day do not have jobs and are on disability. Disability through a real injury, or they're just lazy POS who want to live off of our taxes. They live in a run down apartment, with a mediocore computer, without money, and play a MMORPG all day. Burden to our society type people (Not the ones with real injuries).
Please rephase this comment rather quickly I am disabled and not all ''have injuries' and are not certainly not a 'burden' as you so kindly put it (but I'll forgive the linching a tad due to us being in a stereotypical world), but thank you for pointing out some people have time to play MMOs to that extent and more than likly use it as a form of communitation as well as 'a game'
Chill out, man, he's not talking about you. Obviously you have some sort of issue that prevents you from working, which you probably view as a weakness (which is why you're so defensive about it). We have respect for people like you. It's the scum that leeches off unemployment or welfare (without ANY reasonable excuse) so they can feed their gaming habits that need to die in a fire.
On a side note, why do people feel the need to detail out their gaming schedule? I play when I play, and as long as I'm making productive use with the rest of my time, I don't feel the need to justify my gaming habits to anyone.
I can amnage about 4-5 hours of EvE gaming a night sometimes i dont play every night tho like say 4 out of 7 days some weeks. This doesant interfere with my life too much and thanks to the way eve does skill leveling and how you can earn cash in eve i can continue having a life while still being pretty good in eve.
Of course this help to create the myth that eve players can afk play eve all the time because they are seen a lot on these forums unlike fans from other games who have to be ingame quite a bit more and cant paly here at the same time. Truth is you only need to play eve 4 hours a day to be good unless you like to pvp which i belive adds a hour or so more.
Point is eve supports casuall gaming and a outside life.
I'm actually not talking about people with real injuries (I'm rather certain I put in my post that these are legit). I have several people on my caseload who managed to squeak there way onto disability through there therapists writing "they can't work" letters. People who could work. Two or three of those people do play a MMORPG all day....again...my post was not to people with real injuries. It's to the people who don't work, find a way to get on disability after years of hounding people and lying to therapists/doctors. You know, the ones at the bottom of the human evolution chain.
When I was in college, a few years back, SWG was on its big role and lots of people played. A couple guys in my Frat played with me and on the weekends sometimes all we did was play SWG. We did play it a lot, but I played it with RL friends. Fast forward to today. I work all the time. I'm lucky if I get a hour or two in before its sleepy time. Now on the weekends I do play more, but I don't play 16+ hours.
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Actually, there is something you, and others are forgetting. In this modern day and age, not all "F/T" jobs require 8 hours a day to work. For example, there are high level computer programmers who only need to work 1 week per month to pull in $50,000.oo per year.
There are jobs that pay big money, but require almost no work. I used to play a very old MUD and the elite players were computer operators. They spent only 1 hour of their 8 hour shift actually doing work. The rest of the shift was spent watching the computer. (I had to quit the game after 2 months because it was impossible to beat them. I'd get killed off gradually while I slept, and went about my life while away from the computer.)
Need a better example? A security guard who sits at his/her desk all day or night long. The responsiblilty is high of course. But there will never be a robbery every single hour. If they have a laptop, or computer access, they can play 7 hours during their 8 hour shift.
I even once had a computer operating job early in my career. It was part time, and I did "real work" for only 1 hour out of the 3-4 hours I was on the clock. I made $11.oo an hour. It worked out great while I was going to school. I could have stayed on after finnsihing school. If I did, I would be making $24.oo an hour right now (they gave guaranteed raises every 6 months-1 year). I could have set things up to play a mmorpg while at work.
In modern times, the high paying jobs are more about what you know , and not necessarily about how many hours you work. Or about doing intense physical work. If what you know is in demand, you litterally could work 1 hour, and make $100-$500 dollars! (Hey! sounds like some lawyers, doctors, etc... hahah
)
Oh, I forgot to mention the most favorite guy known by everyone here at mmorpg.com the one and only...
Sir Bruce !!!
He worked at a great job, quit his job, and made even greater investments (this is many years ago). If he didn't blow all his loot gambling, he is easily worth between 500k to 1 million to 5 million dollars right now.
Bring on the WARRRRGGHH!
Chill out, man, he's not talking about you. Obviously you have some sort of issue that prevents you from working, which you probably view as a weakness (which is why you're so defensive about it). We have respect for people like you. It's the scum that leeches off unemployment or welfare (without ANY reasonable excuse) so they can feed their gaming habits that need to die in a fire.
On a side note, why do people feel the need to detail out their gaming schedule? I play when I play, and as long as I'm making productive use with the rest of my time, I don't feel the need to justify my gaming habits to anyone.
I can amnage about 4-5 hours of EvE gaming a night sometimes i dont play every night tho like say 4 out of 7 days some weeks. This doesant interfere with my life too much and thanks to the way eve does skill leveling and how you can earn cash in eve i can continue having a life while still being pretty good in eve.
Of course this help to create the myth that eve players can afk play eve all the time because they are seen a lot on these forums unlike fans from other games who have to be ingame quite a bit more and cant paly here at the same time. Truth is you only need to play eve 4 hours a day to be good unless you like to pvp which i belive adds a hour or so more.
Point is eve supports casuall gaming and a outside life.
Well i tell you iam always game online its the strive to be the best and i been game online for about 10 years now.
Iam good fps and i spend time on mmorpg games about 7 hours a day thru the week and about 18 hours on weekends cus iam off of work .
People say its just a game i say nope.
If you steal a car from a man that spends all his time on his car { he will kill you} Why? cus that is what he likes to do.
If you cheat on me in a game to beat me then your stealing my car!
Why? Cus gameing online to be #1 is what i spend all my time online for!
I dont care about my car you can take it but pleease dont cheat on me!!!
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tooo bad my post on page 3 was too close to the end and got burried
too bad it could not have appeared at the TOP of a new page in this thread...
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