Making the most of my time. / How much do you play?

Tandor · February 2017

I probably game for around 20 hours per week, but not all on ESO as I like to keep things fresh by running several games at a time. This is my MMO home, however, it has been since PC launch and I don't see it changing.

Also the old cliche about not having as much free time now I'm retired is true, I really don't know how I used to fit in a full-time job and still got more gaming time than I have now

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ADarklore · February 2017

I play for 10-12 hours every day I have off.

qsnoopyjr · February 2017

I'm just going to sit at Freeport stone and cast Temp all day.

I play MMORPG's for sociable aspect.

I'm not your traditionally nowdays, PG ERA, Millenial era...
SOLO QUE'ER
AKA
Time worry wart

I'm not going to stress about how many hours I play, just so you can make judgements on me, I play the game to be socialable and to be part of the community. If you see me on a lot good. If you dont see me at all, probably have real life stuff going on.

I have no desire to be part of being picked on for playing too much or being picked on because I dont play enough to compete.
I play for social aspects. Game needs to be less time focused, and more sociable focused.

When you have more of community soloing than you have grouping.
Thats very bad
Especially if your game is under the category of...
MMORPG

ThePaulrus94 · February 2017

Wow surprised at how many of us are saying we're busy with this or that. Maybe it's the mostly toxic forum, but I have sadly been under the impression that many people just sat at their computer all day.

I have 2.5 days on my current character, 60 hours. However, my character is currently at about level 27. What I'm getting at and partially the point of this thread, I can hardly fathom how people complain that the game has little content when leveling has the possibilty to take this long to reach 50. I suppose many of those people are the ones who rush through content to be the best. Nothing wrong with that, I guess I'd rather enjoy everything the game has to offer.

Goes to show you that this community isn't all bad

srfrogg23 · February 2017

Married, 4 kids, full time job, and going to school. Nope, not pouring my life into any game at my age.

When I do play, I will:

1. Check my crafting research and level up my horse.
2. Queue for a random Vet dungeon.
3. Start questing while queued, dailies or normal.
4. Look for lore books and skyshards while questing.
5. Run a random if it pops within 20-30 minutes.
6. Research traits/deconstruct green or better items/sell non-traited white items.
7. Log off in about 1 to 1 1/2 hours.

thisisScoMan · February 2017

I play about 1.5 hours a night after work. Last year that was mostly doing GC dailies and other dailies.

Lately it's just been running writs on my characters and trying to get a bit of gold so I can afford at least some small houses for my characters. I know I'll never be able to afford the mansions, which is fine, but I still want to have a little few places of my own to experiment with.

For the first time EVER I've decided to book some video-game related annual leave for Morrowinds release. Expensive house repairs means I can't travel this year IRL, so I'll spend my holiday in Morrowind.

Hopefully ESO houses do not require expensive maintenance as well.

Jemcrystal · February 2017

When I'm not at work I'm playing. Like that with me and new games. But I have to get up and stretch. So it's not nonstop. I move around a lot.

Unsent.Soul · February 2017

When I enjoyed the game it was 20-30 hrs. Per week, with ESO + and constantly buying items with crowns.

In the last two weeks, 0 hours, no sub, no crown purchases.

menedhyn · February 2017

I think that how you choose to play is an interesting point, @ThePaulrus94. Even with my relatively limited free time, I still play the game slowly, and deliberately so. I'm not in a rush to complete content and i'm not that enamoured by the thought of PvP or endgame content. That view might change of course, but for me the journey through the game and the stories to be told, the player interaction and the sense of exploration are much more appealing. As it is, i'm pretty content with the few hours I have available to play.

TrueGreenSmoker · February 2017

I pick the wrong hours lol ment to pick 10-20 hours lol
Depends on how PvP is. And weekend I'll do 20-30 hours

Runschei · February 2017

This poll made me realize what I am doing with my life

Turelus · February 2017

40+ but that's because I don't have much else going on right now.

Generally I use ESO now as a mindless grind and time sink when I have no new games or work to do.

StrawberryKitsune · February 2017

jedtb16_ESO wrote: »

i'm retired and my time is my own for once. i can play when i want for as long as i want.

time in game is spent either pursuing one or other (of many) projects or just pick a map i haven't been to for a while and just run around it collecting and visiting all the sites of interest.... delves and dolmens and such.

then there's fishing...

Oh to have the time to fish....

method__01 · February 2017

work part time nowadays,lots of free time so 10+ or more,got the pc version too,so im struggling get a toon to L50 there also

endless farming all over Cyro

Knootewoot · February 2017

Currently around 1 - 2 hours per day. Around 3 in the weekend per day. So approx. 10-16 hours per week.

But not every week, sometimes I just don't have time at all. Last month I only played around 15 hours ESO.

Knootewoot · February 2017

qsnoopyjr wrote: »

Yep

Thing is, at start of new day.

The gamer is like "I wasted so much time yesterday, time time time wasted, time is on my mind all the time"

The non gamer is like "Yesterday was so much fun, I'm going to try and have even more fun today"

Difference?
Gamer is still stressed, non gamer just enjoying life like we did before games came into existance.

This is how MMORPGs evolved from
Early days, gaming in early stages.
Everquest
Sit around with friends and talk to them while waiting for your HP and Mana to go back to 100%. No rush, I'll wait 10 mins for you to come back. Oh you gotta go afk now too. its okay, no rush. See you guys tommorow, lots of fun today. Just made it 1/5 way to level 9 of 50 levels.

To
Gaming 15 years later
ESO
Time time time.... Grind grind grind... Why is this game such a grind??? Time time time. This is taking too long... Time time time time...
No time to chat with you... Time is on my mind. No time to party with you. Solo is fastest way to make best use of my time time time.

Point is,
longer you are a gamer... the more time time time you worry about.
When gaming was in early stages when people wasnt mentally disorded with mental disorder of best use of time awareness.
Gaming was pretty fun. But when you think of time all the time... Games... They aren't fun anymore. Especially when people make games based on time, rather than making it sociable, enjoyable, and fun.

Funny, I had a discussion on this last week in BDO.

Someone asked my why I played the game as I was just lvl 50, played since early access and had no armor at all. I should leave the game since I didn't try to achieve anything.

I told him I don't give anything about being the best and I don't like grinding. He told me it was a grind game so I better got used to it.

So I told him, it's only a grind game if you make it a grind game since I am not grinding at all. I told him I loved to explore, sail the seas and enjoy the scenery. Someone else in chat whispered me "I love you" when I told that so I am not the only one.

Some people like to grind and get max level ASAP and go for best gear. Well I do not. I love to chat, explore and take my time. When ESO went live there where topics of people who wanted to start a powergrind group to reach V10 within a week. Those players are long gone since they figured out after a week of 24/7 grinding there is nothing at the top.

I played SWG from end 2003 until they pulled the plug. My activities as a ranger where roleplaying, hunting and gathering bones and skin. And yes I had a blast sitting in my camp taking pictures of creatures who wandered by and posting their weaknesses and skin/bone quality of that weak for people who wanted to kill them as quick as possible and artisans.

MMO company sometimes create wonderful virtual worlds. People who only grind and go to endgame ASAP and only fast travel miss a lot of details.

But that is my opinion. Even in cyrodill during PvP I sometimes sit at a lake and admire the beautiful trees.

akl77 · February 2017

Gaming is my hobby, you gotta have work and life balance. If you work 40hours then play 40hours.

Dracindo · February 2017

Will surely reduce once I move out.

But this doesn't include ESO, only. You never said it had to be ESO play time

Vaoh · February 2017

Used to be 40+ hours on ESO a week when I was running vMoL HM.

My work in college has changed this though - 15hrs is accurate for a typical week now I think. This number has been going down though by a lot lately (like 5-10hrs) ....

Savage_Audacity · February 2017

I work 56 hours a week and still play several hours a day.

Prof_Bawbag · February 2017

Edit: Wrong thread

FloppyTouch · February 2017

I play 2 hours a day and on the weekends about 4 or as much as the wife with tolerate me being on lol.

I work night shift so I play early mornings after my kids go to school I login do writs then might pvp a few or farm right now I'm fishing then I go to bed.

Weekends is when a lot of people are on so I pvp a lot more and bc I don't work the weekends I stay up late to play and then try to sneak into bed. Sometimes its 2am and I'll wake the wife up by accident and she will be like what time is it and I'm like ummmmmm 10pm XD

Olen_Mikko · February 2017

Most of my free time

ArvenAldmeri · February 2017

I get back home from work at around 4-5pm and play till like midnight. On weekend I spend all day playing late till night. Not playing alone tho but with my long distance relationship boyfriend. From time to time I go shop, cinema with family etc but yeah. My day is basically work, eso, sleep. And before that it was school, eso,sleep xD

disintegr8 · February 2017

Over 30 hours a week.
I have a full time job and have been married for over 20 years - what else am I going to do that keeps me out of trouble ?

Duiwel · February 2017

Lol if I didn't have a job, had to eat, sleep, had to do things I would probably list 168...

AnviOfVai · February 2017

When I come home from work I try to get 3-4 hours on the weekends its about the same depending on how busy I am...Mostly I don't have much time to do all the things you want to do, so when people tell me to "grind that character up will only take you a day!" my answer is:

Theosis · February 2017

Im mostly killing time until I can find an MMO that is reminiscent of Firefly or Nexus TK. ESO is great but I feel Ive played out everything I find fun in the game.

Bobby_V_Rockit · February 2017

NOT ENOUGH DAMMIT!!

Indaghdha · February 2017

Very early on Sunday mornings is really the only time I have to play, which makes for about 4-6 hours of playtime a week.

I get up around 4AM and start the coffee, fire up a bowl of Pink Kush or whatever the Strain of the Week is and then get to playing ESO!

Amazing how many people are in Cyrodiil at that time of the day...