How do you know that? I don't want to offend people, I'm just saying I find it disturbing if someone plays too much.
SgtKevali
When i stay over, he only plays about 2 hours with me. Don't get me wrong. I don't approve of it but i don't think he has a problem.
I'm not saying that he does. If he can spend all that time playing games and it doesn't hurt his life that's fine. But I suspect that this hurts a lot of those that do it.
This is the only thing I'm worrying about. In my church's version of the bible you can do anything (that isn't sinful) for any amount as long as you don't neglect anything important. A popular saying goes: "You do what you have to do before you do what you want to do."
I find that I have a hard time getting myself to play games for extended periods of time these days. Even if I don't really have other things to do. I generally only play for two hours a day. It's only today that I've been really playing a lot, but that's because I'm trying to beat this aggrivating Tactics Ogre game.
[QUOTE="mrmusicman247"] Ehh I don't know about that. I know someone personally who plays about 5 hours a day and he's married and has a job. He can stop anytime he wants to. Donkey_King
How do you know that? I don't want to offend people, I'm just saying I find it disturbing if someone plays too much.
It isn't that disturbing, the average person probably spends the same amount of time watching movies, listening to music, browsing the web ect
You listed a variety of activities. Doing one thing for 8+ hours straight isn't good.
[QUOTE="mrmusicman247"] Ehh I don't know about that. I know someone personally who plays about 5 hours a day and he's married and has a job. He can stop anytime he wants to. Donkey_King
How do you know that? I don't want to offend people, I'm just saying I find it disturbing if someone plays too much.
It isn't that disturbing, the average person probably spends the same amount of time watching movies, listening to music, browsing the web ect Yeah I agree the article itself says this amount of hours is just a notch above what the average american spends watching T.V so plenty of people indulge alot of hours into non productive things.
How do you know that? I don't want to offend people, I'm just saying I find it disturbing if someone plays too much.
SgtKevali
It isn't that disturbing, the average person probably spends the same amount of time watching movies, listening to music, browsing the web ect
You listed a variety of activities. Doing one thing for 8+ hours straight isn't good.
What's the difference? Someone should not enjoy themselves and force themselves to do other stuff they don't enjoy just to make themselves feel better in the eyes of other people? Now THAT is not good.
I remember hearing these dudes from my school got together and played for 48 hrs straight just all WoW partying, pvping, etc. Of course with some breaks, but pretty much glued to it most of the way through, they would pass out afterwards for a day to catch up on sleep then party irl after.
I play about 35.... And that is way more time than i thought before entering this thread... I suppose i actually DO have free time after all, i just use it to play games all the time.
I only game hard like that (six hours or more a day) when I'm playing a great new game that I've been anticipating for a long time. Otherwise, I usually only play an hour or two per day, maybe three times a week. The older you get, the harder it is to devote such selfish time to yourself.
I can get about 20-25 hours on a good week if I have nothing else to do.
Before, I used to play WoW like all day for a summer. I got High Warlord even before they started giving the points. Anyone who's played WoW back then knows the pain.
That is pretty damn insane, but i probably play that much when im not in school. Dante2710
Yea me to. I played 4 days of COD4 multiplayer in 1 week LOL. Eat, sleep, play. Afterwards my eyes were so bloodshot and I felt like crap. Took another week to get back to feeling normal.
Whoa judging by this thread I think my friends theory is right, that "gamespot is just filled with casual chavs that know nothing but shooters and short games" .... im beggining to believe it judging by the reaction to this study. so much for being a gamer enthusiast forum, no need to play the "I have a job" Card... it doesnt work :P
During a holiday with nothing else to do I could pull off 6-7 hours a day, it would take a very good game though for me not to get bored. During workdays I would never get to those numbers no matter the game.
I guess if one just plays games instead of watching TV it's not that hard to believe.BubbyJello
I play games daily and almost never watch TV, but still couldn't hit 48 hours a week.
I'd love to, but between working 40+, traveling to that job, children, wife etc, I might get 1.5 hours during the week a night. So thats 7.5 hours during the week. Even If I played for 10 hours SAT and again on SUN that would be 27.5 hours. 48 hours in one week is a metric **** ton of time devoted to playing videogames. I'm jealous. :(
Whoa judging by this thread I think my friends theory is right, that "gamespot is just filled with casual chavs that know nothing but shooters and short games" .... im beggining to believe it judging by the reaction to this study. so much for being a gamer enthusiast forum, no need to play the "I have a job" Card... it doesnt work :PBirdy09
That's quite possibly the most elitist thing I've ever heard in quite a while. If any of my friends said that to me I would probably be so embarrassed as to not call them friends any more. Did he really say that?
Incidentally people do actually have jobs in real life, this forum is pretty diverse.
Whoa judging by this thread I think my friends theory is right, that "gamespot is just filled with casual chavs that know nothing but shooters and short games" .... im beggining to believe it judging by the reaction to this study. so much for being a gamer enthusiast forum, no need to play the "I have a job" Card... it doesnt work :PBirdy09
I wouldn't push it that far but it's quite obvious from GS's Alexa ranking that GS is a mainstream/casual games site. It would have to be a hardcore gamer with a bot net to get anywhere near that amount of hits.
At least now we have a definition of what exactly a hardcore gamer is ... "According to a new study from market research firm NPD Group, to be considered among the real hardcore you'll need to play an average of 48.5 hours a week -- nearly seven hours a day." I guess I'm just a 'casual'.
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