How many hours a week do you game?

Captain Caveman · Post by **Captain Caveman** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:20 pm

On average, how many hours a week do you spend playing computer and/or console games? Just curious.

Edit: hmm, I'm now thinking that my scale may not be sensitive enough. We may get a bit of a ceiling effect here.

baron calamity · Post by **baron calamity** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:23 pm

I normally do an hour or two a night. However if I'm addicited to a new game, the numbers could easily be 25+ a week.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 1:53 pm

Well, X-Fire shows me at 20 hours over the last seven days, but doesn't keep track of System Shock 2, which I've probably put seven or eight hours into. I'd say I'm safely in the 20+ category.

Rich in KCK · Post by **Rich in KCK** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:17 pm

If something really grabs me like WoW did in Jan. and again in June then I hit the max. BF2 I probably was around 10 hours the first 2 weeks but I think I actually would fall into the 3-4 hours and that is being generous since I have gone full months without actually playing a game at all.

Hrdina · Post by **Hrdina** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:47 pm

Not as much as I would like.

Giles Habibula · Post by **Giles Habibula** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:33 pm

Back in the mid 90's, I was in the 30+ range.
When Duke Nukem 3D came out with the 'Build' editor, that number shot up to maybe 50, though I don't really count editing as gaming.

Ironically, now that I have more free time, I game less, maybe 10 hours/week.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:28 pm

For almost 6 months now, the average is none.

RunningMn9 · Post by **RunningMn9** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:40 pm

If I count playing console games with my son, I'm in the 20+ club, otherwise about 8 hours a week.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:31 pm

Oh,about 4-8 hours a day. I don't have a life.

Spiff · Post by **Spiff** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:41 am

I game after I put my youngest to bed. So I'm in the 20+.

My 13 yeard old love to IM and chat with her friends at night about what they did that day, my wife will read a book (since that's her quiet time), and I'll game. I don't watch alot of TV, and I'm not reading a book ATM, so I'm busy saving the citizens of Paragon City.

Eightball · Post by **Eightball** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:44 am

Hrdina wrote:Not as much as I would like.

But more than I should be

Freezer-TPF- · Post by **Freezer-TPF-** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:46 am

Between 0 to maybe 8 if there is a game I am really into (recent example: Jade Empire). Last night I played for around 2 hours (Psychonauts), but that is the first time I had fired up a game in 3 weeks. I tend to have "no play" droughts like that for a few weeks at a time, which makes finishing games difficult these days.

Lassr · Post by **Lassr** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:11 am

Probably averages out to about an hour a night.
May play 2-3 hours one night and none the next.

O.DOGG · Post by **O.DOGG** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:19 am

About 3 hours a night on work days, more on weekends. How much more depends on whether I have new game that I really like or not. Recently I do - I've been playing Guild Wars like crazy - it says I've played more than 100 (I hit 100hrs the other day) for the 30 days I've had the game. That amounts to 25 hours a week for Guild Wars alone. I've also been playing some Mercenaries on the PS2 every now and then. So probably about 28 hours a week.

Two Sheds · Post by **Two Sheds** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:04 pm

Very little any more, I'm afraid. The only game I've been playing since I bought it is Battlefield 2. I've had it, what, a month now? I've put in MAYBE 25 hours, all told.

Hopefully once school starts I'll have a little more gaming time. I've been itching to dive back into an RPG that I've already completed--BG2 or Planescape or Fallout, I haven't decided. Hopefully I won't be working this semester, I have no class on Tuesday or Thursday, and I can't study all the time.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:06 pm

I put in 16-20. That seems to be a good average. Usually about 2 hours a day; a little more on the weekends.

I don't watch that much TV, so computer gaming is my primary recreational activity.

Ridah · Post by **Ridah** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:59 pm

For me it ranges, the past two weeks I don't think I've touched a game. But the previous two weeks I was heavily into WoW, so I was doing around 30+.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 6:14 pm

Hrdina wrote:Not as much as I would like.

I join this club!

Chappers · Post by **Chappers** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:09 am

When I was young, free and single 20+ a week
Since I moved in with the missus about 5-6 a week if I was a good boy.
Now there is the baby as well, 2-3

Dramatist · Post by **Dramatist** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:42 am

I put 16-20, but that's my summertime play time. The rest of the year I'm probably closer to 20+. I don't have to leave for work til 9am, and during the school year the rest of my family leaves the house at about 7:30 so I get an extra hour of gaming in the mornings. This usually fuels my MMORPG desire (I've hardly touched EQ2 this summer).

In the summertime I'm usually doing more family stuff (and watching baseball). The kids stay up later too and I get less game time after they go to bed.