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I game per week...

1 hour 4 6.67%
 
2 hours 3 5.00%
 
2-5 hours 12 20.00%
 
5-10 hours 10 16.67%
 
10-15 hours 10 16.67%
 
15-20 hours 3 5.00%
 
20-30 hours 5 8.33%
 
30-40 hours 5 8.33%
 
50 hours+ 3 5.00%
 
I have no time to game at all. 5 8.33%
 
Total:60

I have a job that involves to travel a lot, so i game when traveling, Switch 2 will make me very happy.



34 years playing games.

 

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I game for about 90/120 mins on my PC during weekdays, whilst during weekends I can game quite a bit more.
I also have 30 mins or so during my lunch break at work, which I use to game on my mobile.



When I made this thread, 2000 hours in one year was my goal to get to as I was able to manage that in 2015, I now know I will never reach these numbers again and the chances will go down every passing year. I was able to get my average up to 18.7 hours for last years completed games and pretty proud of it and just about 22 hours on games in general. First year I've seen those numbers since 2017. For what is supposed to be a relaxed hobby gaming is hard to do as you get older, it really takes effort to take that massive hurdle of grabbing the controller and pushing the X button and then it takes time to find good games, a lot of time spent listening or reading about games and keeping up with the industry. I still count myself lucky cause I know people who can only game on the weekend and not even a decent session. 

I'm at 17 hours average this year on completed games and about 19 overall but that's the best I can figure, it's not as avcurate as last year, I stopped keeping good time some weeks back games and have relied on undercutting the PSN games section clock by 10% but I might not be clipping off enough, I kept solid track of time myself for CO E33 but the PSN clock is schizophrenic and it's getting worse every game I play, main page of CO E33 tells me I spent 162 hours in it, that would have to be about 14 hours a day, the clock on the games played in the profile tab is much more reasonable but still inflated at 84 hours, in game clock isn't enough as always but the closest at 60 hours. I spent 64 hours in it in 12 days by my count which is an extremely accurate stop watch that gets paused when my ass doesn't have a controller in my hand, those numbers are as hard-core for me as it gets, it doesn't breakdown to an average clearly cause of weekends and staying up late or getting up early but that would average 5.5 hours a day, if I were to keep it up for a year that would be 2000 hours but I'd be going around sleep deprived, my eyes would be sore, I'd have this awful dehydrated feeling all the time among other shit I'm dealing with now. It's a pity that gaming won't follow us into old age as something we can use to escape the decay of our bodies so my new outlook is to get as much in as possible now and forget about the numbers, I'm going to stop keeping track entirely and rough estimate.

I beat 24 games last year and at 16 in current year I'm on track to heavily exceed, as soon as I get one more trophy in CO E33 I'll have platinumed 69% (giggity) of the games I've played, I'm happy with those numbers regardless of game time. Idk why I get so obsessed with stats, it's such a pointless quirk

I know for sure though, If I could PSA gaming execs, there is a lot of money to ve made if they start making really solid high quality 8-12 hours experiences again for the gamer who doesn't have time and wants to be games without life intervention and the chord for the games hook being severed. Doom the dark ages at 79,99 is ridiculous when Clair Obscur was 44,99 for the vast majority of people and quadruple the content at a very premium and high quality experience, out right beating quality levels in most areas of games for 79,99 with half the content. 

Last edited by LegitHyperbole - on 06 May 2025

My playtime plugin on steam deck says I've done 39 hours for the 2 weeks I've had it installed. So I guess I'm on track for 2k hours a year if I keep playing that much. Even so my backlog is so long I'm pretty sure I'll never get around to plenty of games I want to play.

Oblivion/Grim Dawn are the two time sinks I have right now. Persona 5 Royal is on the list for soon and maybe I'll try Dragon Quest VII/VIII too.



Last edited by Zippy6 - on 06 May 2025


About 6 a 7 hours a day on workdays



 

My youtube gaming page.

http://www.youtube.com/user/klaudkil

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Zippy6 said:

My playtime plugin on steam deck says I've done 39 hours for the 2 weeks I've had it installed. So I guess I'm on track for 2k hours a year if I keep playing that much. Even so my backlog is so long I'm pretty sure I'll never get around to plenty of games I want to play.

Oblivion/Grim Dawn are the two time sinks I have right now. Persona 5 Royal is on the list for soon and maybe I'll try Dragon Quest VII/VIII too.



Nah, you're on track to a little over one thousand. I had 1200 hours last year total which is a little over 22 hours per week or 3 hours per day. I know that number seems low but 2000 hours is 5.5 hours per day. Even with weekends taking the biggest sessions it's a lot. 



LegitHyperbole said:
Zippy6 said:

My playtime plugin on steam deck says I've done 39 hours for the 2 weeks I've had it installed. So I guess I'm on track for 2k hours a year if I keep playing that much. Even so my backlog is so long I'm pretty sure I'll never get around to plenty of games I want to play.

Oblivion/Grim Dawn are the two time sinks I have right now. Persona 5 Royal is on the list for soon and maybe I'll try Dragon Quest VII/VIII too.



Nah, you're on track to a little over one thousand. I had 1200 hours last year total which is a little over 22 hours per week or 3 hours per day. 

Oh crap, yeah you're right. I did 39 times 52 instead of 26 lol. I thought 2k sounded like a lot because I don't consider myself a very heavy gamer. It takes me ages to finish a big game like Skyrim or Assassin Creed Odyssey.



Zippy6 said:
LegitHyperbole said:

Nah, you're on track to a little over one thousand. I had 1200 hours last year total which is a little over 22 hours per week or 3 hours per day. 

Oh crap, yeah you're right. I did 39 times 52 instead of 26 lol. I thought 2k sounded like a lot because I don't consider myself a very heavy gamer. It takes me ages to finish a big game like Skyrim or Assassin Creed Odyssey.

It's still an average of 3 hours per day, it's pretty good. Seems to be what most core gamer achieve based on PS wrap up, between 1,000 and 1,500 a year. Getting above 2000 takes extreme consistency, you can't have many off days or you'd need to have looooong weekend session or the averages fall really fast.