Daily Q: How many hours a week do you game?
Category: Features, Posted: 05/11/2008 at 09:59AM CDT by Creighton DeSimone, Staff Writer
I don't know about the rest of you but my days are pretty hectic. Aside from writing for the good old GamerNode I also hold a regular old 40 hour a week job. It's not necessarily 9-5 but it is still 40 hours every week. Pile on top of that the additional 8-10 I do at the third job I have and, well, I kind of run out of time to do things.On average how many hours a week do you spend playing videogames?
I can say whole-heartedly I spend 30 minutes on my lunch break playing my DS, so that's a measly 2.5 hours a week. Sometimes that's it for the whole week. I try to get in an hour or two of console gaming on a nightly basis, but it usually works out to every other night.
So I'd say I spend about 7 hours a week gaming on average. Man, getting old sucks. I used to spend 7 hours a day gaming now I'm lucky to do that in a week. Cheer me up guys, please tell me you're giving your systems more attention than I am giving mine.
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Lately I've had a lot more free time on my hands due to lousy work scheduling, so I would say maybe 2 hours each day. Typically, I'd only have time to play games about 20 minutes each day, which wouldn't add up to much in a week.
Usually only around an hour or so each day. Parents don't want me playing a whole lot (so my dad has 5x as much time on bf as I do).
On a 'good' week, I can probably end up playing over 30 hours. Typically though it doesn't add up to more than four.
My typical week this summer will probably be consisting of gaming 4 or so hours a day (mostly at night). So give or take 25-40 hours (depending on how bored I am) a week.
Steam says I spent about 14-25 hours.
i usually can get about 2 to 4 hours every night after work (i don't have any other obligations besides my job, where i am considered full time working 36 hours a week)... but i don't always play games every night, there are some nights where i throw in a movie or tvshow i've got on dvd instead. I'd still say it averages out to be around 10 to 25 hours a week gaming.
(if i had a ds or a psp i could play those a bit during the dead time at work... but i don't... yet... that would add several hours each week i'd imagine...)
Typically 2-3 hours on any given night.
Some nights can go longer, especially when I have no other commitments, some nights, I don't even play at all.
Probably works out to 10+ hours a week, I guess.
Too many.
During the work week, a couple hours here and there. Probably 3 hours a week, if not for my days off. One day a week, I have 4 solid hours of "me" time playing video games.
I play between 15 to 20 hours a week... Kinda depends on how bored I am or whether I with friends...
Believe it or not a lot less since I've been at GamerNode than I did before.
LOL Brendon, I used to play 2 to 3 hours a night when I first started with GN. Now I Avg. 2 to 3 hours a month. :(
Heh. I skive off work to post in gamernode and occasionally go on from home. There, I hit up about 3 hours a night on EvE or steams wonderful collection of games.
Depends really, at the weekends I usally spend most of the time on video games, and week days can vary from nothing to a few hours... And it will be nothing for a few weeks as I have some GCSEs to get!
Ah, ditto that Aaron, I've got my A2's now, so its gonna shrink to a big fat 0
Normally, its around 6-7 hours a week, nothing much. Just enough time to fit in good games, and just miss the crap ones :D
Believe it or not, I play games everyday, I cant get beat at CoD4, RSV2, RFOM, or MGO. I play games so much I actually have tactics for every map, which on all those games I average 20 kills and 5 deaths. I'm a scary FPS player, everyone I met that thought they were good, realize that they're not, except the people that live in Texas, They're to full of themselves to admit it.
This number goes up or down depending on what games are out. If there isn't a whole lot of good stuff out, I'll resort to playing from my list of backlog of games that I haven't gotten around to playing. This is my casual game mode. But if I'm totally dedicated to a game I really like, kiss my life goodbye...