however, when Skyrim first came out... I did a 13 hour shift lol

Not enough. I don't get to play very much during the week just because I'm busy with the house and kids and errands and whatever. So every now and then on a Saturday my husband hands me the controller and makes me play all day. Not that I complain. Those days I average about 5 to 6 hours at a stretch.

Before getting married about 4 hours daily lol

Used to play a TON (3+/day easily). That immediately declined last year when I started lifting. Now it's about 3 hours per week.

I think I'm finally at an age where I can control my gaming .... but the caveat to this is that I'm saying this before Diablo 3 is released ... :bigsmile:

These days, I mostly game on weekends when I have nothing else to do or I need some "mememememe" time -- and I need quite a bit of it, since I'm a deep introvert. While I love my friends, it's exhausting to be "on" all the time when it's time to be social -- and, thankfully, my friends for understand that (I guess that's what makes them friends ) But, honestly, this still totals only an average of 3-6 hrs/week these days.

Now that I'm more active, I get antsy when I sit on my butt for too long (and having a desk job means I get plenty of THAT during the week), so I'd rather get out and walk/hike (summer) or snowboard/snowshoe (winter) or even just run errands.

When deep into an MMO though ... oooh boy. 40+ hrs/week, easy -- even working full-time. At my "peak" raiding era, I was working a full-time job 40 hrs/week + raiding 16 hrs/week + farming 10 hrs/week (this was WAY before guild cauldrons, haha) + goofing off/playing alts/whatever 10 hrs/week ... no wonder I quit MMOs altogether several months into THAT routine, lol. There wasn't enough time for me -- quiet time, that is -- to recharge. I still love MMOs and I still keep them at arms length because I'm afraid of getting sucked back into one hardcore; I did come back for Cata briefly, but the game had changed too much and -- maybe -- I had, too.

Additionally, I'm partly surprised the hardcore gamers are overweight! For me it's a great food avoider! If I'm getting near my limit for the day, i do my dailies and a few HCs on WoW. Can't eat AND dish out swift fiery vengeance while not keyboard turning at the same time!

I totally agree with this. I can't eat and tank/debuff (depending on what I'm playing) at the same time! And, it's totally rude to talk with food in your mouth :laugh:

Between PC and x box.. hours a day usually.. I'm addicted. MMOs to Duty.

I don't much anymore - 6 hours of raiding a week (sometimes 9-10 if I get dragged to a sat alt raid but I'm starting to refuse) and then a few hours here and there, when I feel like it. I dialed down my workouts a lot recently so lately its been a bit more

when I 1st started playing MMO's i'd easily log in 4-6 hours a day, now i'm lucky if I put in 4-6 hours a week, I guess the addiction has worn off...so to speak

Ideally, I like to play a couple hours a night, then 5 each weekend day.

When I am not playing, I am usually trying to keep up on industry news and devouring Gaming articles...it's pretty much my life ha ha!

During the week, nothing. At weekends I will spend 5+ hours a day gaming, mostly on skyrim. I'm trying to stay away from wow because that devours my life!

Don't even get me started on WoW. I finally weened myself off it about 6mo. ago. (Though I'll probably be back come Mists of Pandaria. :grumble: ) But then, I'd been playing since vanilla beta. It was time to move on. And I have to agree with the comments above, when it came to raiding, it was such a time commitment! It became too much. I burnt out.

I still game quite a bit -- just not MMOs at the moment. Although, I'm kinda looking forward to Firefall.

Right now, though, Skyrim and L.A. Noire are claiming my attention, but there's been so much to do around here that I might get a few hours in during the week. I mostly play on weekends -- maybe half a day or so. More if I don't have errands. :laugh:

Anno 2070 has this built-in feature that after two hours it tells you to get off the computer and come back when you're feeling refreshed. It always makes me feel like the game is telling me, "You stink. Go take a break. Maybe you'll do better when you get back."

Secretly, I'm lying in wait for Diablo3. :embarassed:

I loved la noire until during an argument my son told me the ending.

That's just cruel. Someone did that for me with Arthas and his father in WC3.

I'm compulsive. If I get a new game and have nothing pressing to do that day, wake up until bed time. Now that I have kids, it's not an option. Eve Online was killing me. I waited til the kids were asleep top play, and that game was like Heroine. There was no just jumping on for a quick game, it was at least a 4 hour commitment most times. I had to give it up because I was losing so much sleep I couldn't function.

My husband and I have been known to roll dawn til dusk when new games arrive...Typically we both play btwn 2-7 per day. We always have something going. Luckily, we have our own consoles and monitors and don't have to share.

I used to play far too much through highschool and college, and periods of unemployment in between. Since graduating and getting a full time job, my game time has reduced by a ton. I went from like 6-12 hours a day to maybe 1-2 hours every other day.

That said, TOR just came out so I'm at like 3 hours a day, or 4-5 on the weekend. With breaks to get my workout in, ahah.