I honestly forgot what the online thing was.

Not really. The game was released on Golden Week, so if they had five days off from school/work and played the game for 10 hrs per day then they have 30 days to get the remaining 150 hrs(before this questionaire became open.) That makes it 5 hrs a day, and more on weekends and less during the week. Considering this is a hardcore gaming magazine this doesn't seem unreasonable. I have spent 150-200 hrs on a game before within a similar time frame when I was in high school and had more time.

and what about the people who polled 300 hours? They spent 10 hours straight on Xenoblade Chornicles daily for a month? Looks like some even polled 500 hours. 

Notice how small of a percentage they are. I've seen people do this very same thing with games like Monster Hunter or MMORPG's. It isn't out of question, especially since this is a hardcore gaming maganize.

Very interesting results.... tagging

What you never heard of a Hikikomori?

great results. Buying it Day One, hope Nintendo gives it some marketing.

Yeah, I have a feeling the way it was phrased confused some people. Still I wouldn't be surprised if some thought it was just too much. Especially since it was claimed that the game had around 300 hours of content, yet over 900 people out of 1,257 (perhaps not coincidentally about 70% of those polled) said they played for under 200 hours. If the 300 hours claim is to be believed, these people passed over a lot of the game's content. It's not far-fetched to think that they just didn't care about a lot of the sidequests, and may have felt that the game was a bit bloated.

("Too much content" is not a concern I myself have about the game. That's just the verdict I'm getting from the poll.)

Must you be so antagonistic for no good reason? What was the point of this reply?

To be fair, the poll was only taken about a month or so after the game's release, so just because they didn't clock in more hours at that time doesn't mean they wouldn't in the future.

Still, I'm sure your point is valid for a good percentage of the sample.

Yeah, it's a pretty small sample too, although I guess it's about 1% of the number of people who bought the game. That's not too bad.

Odds are if someone is still actively playing the game after three months and hasn't finished it yet, they would feel that it has a lot of content, not necessarily in a bad way. There is a bit of a discrepancy there, though: only 30% say they played for over 200 hours. However, 70% say they cleared the game. So most of the people who played for under 200 hours feel like they 'finished' the game, or at least the main story (this question is also somewhat vague).

Another note, perhaps only the translations are weird, and the original Japanese is very clear to readers. In the end, while I feel that some of the questions are phrased in odd ways, the combined results indicate to me that many gamers polled did feel that the game is "too big." That doesn't strike me as an unfair or unexpected criticism.