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i usally play 10-12 hours a day.

and i dont think 4-5 hours a day is hardcore

Originally posted by Housam
i on average play 4-5 hours of mmorpgs a day....i thought that that was pretty average.....but iv been told its hardcore...which i really dont think it is...but alot of people seem to think so.... any way my question is how many hours a week of mmo/gameplay is considerd hardcore?

If you play 4/5 hours a day... you're simply an addict: a person who is running after the hardcore but can never catch them.

Anyway with MMOs either you play alot, or you might as well not play, theya re designed for people with lots of free time.

If you play a game for more hours then most people work in a week I would consider that pretty hardcore.

I'm lucky if I get more than 10 hours in a week.

Although I would love it to be more :P

I'm a reformed addict.

Previous weekday (Monday-Friday) was:

Up at 5am to get ready for work, go to work, home by ~5pm.
Eat, then raid from around 6pm 'til 11pm.

Then I used to play 8-10 hours per day at weekends too.

All-in-all, I used to play around 40 hours a week, this was on WoW when I was in an progress-whore end-game raiding guild that was farming Black Temple and pretty much required similar dedication from all of it's 60+ members.

Clichéd as it sounds, I few months ago I had an epiphany and decided to get a ilfe.

Now I restrict my gaming to weekends and rarely top 15 hours a week max, but I had to quit WoW for two reasons; it's not as casual friendly as it likes to make out, and I don't trust myself not to slip into old behavioural patterns.

Now I'm looking around for a different game that suits my playtime/playstyle (not having a great deal of success at the moment, but that's:)

As a side comment to the people saying that gaming is "just another sport" and decrying the use of the term "addictive", stop deluding yourselves. Gaming IS addictive, IS NOT a Sport, and it IS harmful in excess, (as most things are).

Originally posted by Vincenz

 

Originally posted by Housam
i on average play 4-5 hours of mmorpgs a day....i thought that that was pretty average.....but iv been told its hardcore...which i really dont think it is...but alot of people seem to think so.... any way my question is how many hours a week of mmo/gameplay is considerd hardcore?

 

Only if you play a game 150 hours a month for 15 bucks and then complain that there isn't enough in it to keep you entertained because of the horrible devs LOL!

That is so true and funny that i thought it was worth quoting LOL!

Originally posted by Munki

its kinda funny that people consider hardcore gaming bad.

I used to do homework hardcore.. im talking 4 hours+ a day.
I used to play soccer hardcore.. but that was cool. I could say I play soccer more than 4 hours a day, and people go "wow dedicated"

I say I play wow more than 4 hours and they go "omg your addicted..."

Its kinda funny the distorted perception people have, even those you play the game. The people who play wow 8 hours a day then say "wow ruined my life" or junk like that. Or the ever famous, im addicted but I cant stop.

People spend 7 hours in a bloody shopping mall as teenagers. People can go out and drink/club from 10 to 4am.. thats a 6 hour grind session. Problem is, people think thats cool, yet 6 hours of a video game with friends is baaaaaaad.

Its just what people choose to do with their time. If you fill your time with video games, great, you enjoy them. If your shrugging off your family and everything cause your playing games... Thats not the game, your just a moron and need to stop using the game as an excuse for your problems.

I've played Wow for 8 hour stints.. heck ive done 12 hours with friends, get home at noon from class and played till midnightish, ofcourse we stop for dinner and food. last time we went out for chinese :P

spending 8 hours playing a game is no worse than 3 hours of reading, followed by an hour of tv, followed by a hour of pissing the house and then 3 hours of video games...

its just your HORRIBLY distorted perception, and abuse of the word addiction.

Worth quoting again... thats so true I mean from training for basketball then playing it took hours I go to get some R and R for a few hour playing video games with my mate4s and my mum gives me shit.. ain fair I tell yah but it is truly difficult to alter someones perception especially as stuburn as a mother's LOL!

Originally posted by candygirl6

Originally posted by Housam

Originally posted by candygirl6

 

Originally posted by Housam
i on average play 4-5 hours of mmorpgs a day....i thought that that was pretty average.....but iv been told its hardcore...which i really dont think it is...but alot of people seem to think so.... any way my question is how many hours a week of mmo/gameplay is considerd hardcore?

It's pretty hardcore if that's just gaming.

 

We had a person submitted to the hospital here a while ago because he was playing MMO's 8 hour a day during the holiday.

 

tinyurl.com/ytuz4y

"The boy played an average of eight hours a day, and sometimes 24 hours a piece, he says. In order to stay awake as long as he drank a lot of coffee and energy. He mainly played the game World of Warcraft.verslaafde sons harder to tackle."

how old was this kid.... thats pretty bad...

He's 15 years old. His brother found him exhausted in his bed room at 3 at night after a playing session. He called the doctor and they drove him to the hospital. He's ok now, he's back home.

Ok is it just me or does

a) playing 8 hours a day during the holidays seem not actually very excessive for a kid who has no school/work to worry about?

and

b) being exhausted in your bedroom at 3am not really warrant being driven to the hospital?

Originally posted by Timberwolf0

Originally posted by Housam
i on average play 4-5 hours of mmorpgs a day....i thought that that was pretty average.....but iv been told its hardcore...which i really dont think it is...but alot of people seem to think so.... any way my question is how many hours a week of mmo/gameplay is considerd hardcore?

That's not average. That's obsessed. What do you not have a job or school? That's around 35 hours per week.. almost a full time job!

Erm not really obsessed but he does play quite a lot :)

Think on it this way:

Average college student schedule:

4-5 hrs of classes per day

2-3 hrs of homework/study a day

8-12 hours of 'piss off' time per day

6-8 hours of sleep per day.

He's a self admitted insomniac so he gets about 3-4hrs of sleep at night... so he has an 8-16 hour window of "do whatever the hell I want to" time.  Granted he should probably get more sleep but good god... if he's only playing a game for 1/3 or less of his free time I'd hardly call him obsessed... I'd call him bored :)

Originally posted by x3rx3s

 

Originally posted by candygirl6

He's 15 years old. His brother found him exhausted in his bed room at 3 at night after a playing session. He called the doctor and they drove him to the hospital. He's ok now, he's back home.

 

Ok is it just me or does

a) playing 8 hours a day during the holidays seem not actually very excessive for a kid who has no school/work to worry about?

and

b) being exhausted in your bedroom at 3am not really warrant being driven to the hospital?

Mmm... depends on what type of 'exhaustion' we're talking about.  A doctor did instruct them to take him to a hospital after all.  And drinking excessive energy drinks at that age is actually really bad for a kid that gets little-to-no real exercize.  My daughter (12) drinks energy drinks because she dances anywhere from 3-6 hours a day about 5 days a week (more when there's a competition/performance coming up) but even with her we watch how many she drinks.  Her energy drinks are mostly vitamin water type drinks though, not things like 'red bull'.  And we make sure she gets at least 8 hours of sleep a night.