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Anyone here play video games 12+ hours a day
Cryomatrix
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And if youbdo, do you get bored and switch between games or what.
Or those that average 60+ hours a week of gaming.
Or those that average 60+ hours a week of gaming.
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You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
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otherwise I’m lucky if I get an hour or two on a work day
AC2 Player RIP Final Death Jan 31st 2017
Refugee of Auberean
Refugee of Dereth
ahhh... to be young again... I have the time now to game all day, every day, just not the energy anymore
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
Bored? No.
Burned Out? Yes.. took a few years tho.. and I am NEVER doing that again.
I won't do that anymore. The exception would be a game with the scope of one of the Elder Scrolls games. For both Oblivion and Skyrim I took a week off (I get a lot of time off at my job) and would do the same for the next one or any similar game that launched that I was interested in.
Other than that, I can possibly play 5 to 7 hours "occasionally" on a Saturday here and there.
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Having once spawn camped a boss in L1 for 8 hours only to have another group arrive at the last minute, kill us, and take the boss I decided to play DAOC instead. (Great decision, at least for me)
Once while my wife was away my son (only 13 at the time) and I took advantage playing for like 10 hours straight, after which we both felt physically ill.
We decided to stop and eat dinner and go to the movies just to get out of the house, and I've rarely played more than 8 hours a day since, and certainly not in one sitting even then.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Never otherwise. Well, except one very long epic spawn.
And it has been a long, long time since I did that.
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
To be honest, I clicked on the discussion because I couldn’t believe anyone could regularly play 12+ hours a day. I don’t mean any judgement by it, truly, but are there that many people who don’t have any other obligations/interests? With half the day gone gaming and, say, a good 7 hours for sleep, that leaves 5 hours for work/cooking/eating/washing/shopping/general commute, not to mention any other hobbies like reading/playing music/drawing/building something/hiking/sailing. Obviously not everyone has the same obligations or interests, but I am so far away from having 12 hours to do any one thing that I find the notion astounding. My 2 little kids make it tough blocking out 8 hours a day for work, let alone anything else!
That said, many years ago I used to visit family for a few weeks each summer, and it would get blistering hot during the day, so my cousins and I would sometimes spend hours in a gaming café. I don’t know about 12 hours, but those days would be the most time I’ve ever spent playing games in one session, and we definitely switched things up in the beginning. I don’t think it had much to do with boredom, but we mostly played multiplayer games and between us (cousins and friends) different people were better at different types of games. Counter-strike would usually mean a specific few did well, but then we’d switch to aoe 2 or warcraft 3 and others would kick ass. Or we’d play a cooperative game, like some custom warcraft 3 maps.
This was, of course, pre-mmo explosion. In hindsight, it feels like one moment we were all playing all these different games and then, overnight, people started playing lineage or everquest or world of warcraft. Anecdotally, I must say that it seemed like people stopped mixing it up once they committed to an mmo. Again, I think it had less to do with boredom and more the nature of the games themselves. The other games I mentioned us playing had clearly defined sessions with a beginning and an end, so players either started another session of the same game or switched to a different game. But mmos didn’t have a clear end, nor could anything like an ending be reached in one session (even a mammoth 12 hour session) so people stopped jumping around. Except to make alts. Far, far too many alts.
TL;DR – 12 hours of gaming blows my mind and I'd rather do so many other things, but if I had to game it would definitely be spent jumping around different games if not mmos, otherwise probably sticking to one mmo though different toons are likely.
Nowadays I get 12 hours of gaming a week if I am lucky. My wife, house, kids and career got in the way and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
But i do 7 hours straight of starcraft 2 a few times in the past year.
Overall, i probably could do 16 hours easy even at 38 years old, id just probably need to rotate games a bit.
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
Often when I get a new game I will marathon for 12-16 hours a day over the weekend. But after that, I go back to my typical 16-24 hours a week.
The world is going to the dogs, which is just how I planned it!
The first time I really wanted to play Halo I played it all the way to completion. I know that took me greater than 12 hours the first time.
I worked then and still am now. I did take time off for that AC2 run. Halo was another time in the past when I was between jobs....
It's just so hard to get game time and sometimes you just feel you have to make it happen.
AC2 Player RIP Final Death Jan 31st 2017
Refugee of Auberean
Refugee of Dereth
I imagine EQ broke up a few marriages with the time requirements it had. We used to call it "wife aggro" and often had to leave fairly quik or there were consequences.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR