How many hours a day do you play?

Ilumia · June 1

< 2 hours

Maybe the poll options reflects the view of someone who plays quite a lot more than I do. Which is also reflected in 50% of people choosing that option. - not that it's a big issue or anything like that, it just means read the poll with that in mind

Most days I log in only briefly, so an option that would accurately reflect my playtime would be something like 15-30 mins, or 0-1 hour. My average playtime is probably around 1 hour pr. day.

Elsonso · June 1

< 2 hours

Averaged over the entire year. Estimated. I could go look, but I didn't.

There will be entire blocks of time where I play just long enough to collect the daily rewards.

Other times there is some goal in the game that has me doing more things, like events, etc.

Edit: I play a lot less than I used to on a daily basis. A. Lot.

AzuraFan · June 1

< 2 hours

Anywhere from 10 mins (grab login award, do crafting dailies, and log off) to an hour or so. I rarely play two hours in the same day.

Eldartar · June 1

2 - 4 hours

It used to be 8+ hours per day but over the last few months it's getting less and less.

Update 46 is a stay or quit update for me.

Been playing since Beta too.

Elvenheart · June 2

2 - 4 hours

I would say my average falls into the 2h -4h range. Some days after work it’s 30 min and sometimes an hour or even 2, and then some weekends I get hours to play away the day in Tamriel.

DreamyLu · June 2

< 2 hours

I usually play 20 to 30 minutes early morning before to take my dog out and if possible, I re-play about 30 to 40 minutes in the afternoon. The early morning slot is on a daily basis. The afternoon one every 3 days I would say.

So average, I'm playing less than 1h per day.

Main reason is that I have a busy real life and when I get time to play, priority is with my main game. ESO suffers of this situation. Days have "only" 24 hours (in fact 23h and 56 mins...)

Bethgael · June 2

4 to 6 hours

I averaged mine out. Some months, I will hyper-focus and play for 8+ hours a day for 3-4 weeks (even longer /day, sometimes). Then others, I will log in only to get the daily freebie, in which I might play a char through for a ticket if there's an event on, etc.. This depends on my illness/what other games are out and I'm playing, etc (eg, When BG3 full dropped that was about 6-9 weeks of me only getting dailies once a day and not much else).

I've been playing on and off since beta, so.... yeah. Averaged out over the last 10 years or so.

Al_Ex_Andre · June 2

< 2 hours

I did a lot of IA recently, just that I stack some Archival Fortunes, en masse, before my main character nerfs.

Except this, I played these past weeks less than 2 hours.

The incoming update will make me play more though.

Anyhow I voted, less than 2 hours

johnbonne · June 2

< 2 hours

I play video games for 10 hours a week at most; with me just getting my feelers back into ESO, little of that time has been spent on ESO. I voted <2 hours; the rest are currently taken up by BattleTech.

Lalothen · June 2

< 2 hours

I used to play 2-3 hours a day, but I haven't done that since 2022 & update 35. Up until December I was playing 2-3 hours, 2-3x a week (mostly with my ESO friends doing trials). Going into 2025 I cut my playtime completely until April, and since then I've been playing perhaps 2-3 hours a week, just doing a bit of prep so I can mess around with subclassing on Live and decide if I still want to bother playing at all.

tom6143346 · June 2

< 2 hours

Last year I played almost everyday between 4-6 hours this year it went down to les then one hour if I log into at all . Most of the week I don’t . Just 1 or two quick daylis and that’s it . Subclassing made and a lot of other changes I don like make me play les and les. Will see how it play out

Elrond87 · June 2

> 6 hours

anything from 30mins to 8 hours depending on what i got going on

bzz86 · June 2

< 2 hours

Weekdays generally i just login to pick up the rewards - see if endevours are fast - if so do them (only if they take less than 10 minutes).
Weekends - if I have nothing planned I will play for an hour or two.

***I do play a bit more whenever there is something new in game to do. Like a new DLC - but as soon as I finish the quests I am back to the routine.

Vedova · June 2

< 2 hours

Game has lost a lot of its magic, the immersive world used to know has been filled with over the top cosmetics with flashy effects , it just not the same, and well played the game for as long as its been out, from beta to present. And well the fizz has just died down.

Also the new content pass jus does not appeal to me either so have not even bothered with that, game unfortunately is just not the same game i used to enjoy playing for long periods of time.

Ezhh · June 2

Going forward, fewer than I did before today.

alpha_synuclein · June 3

2 hours of trial and I'm usually out.

theoverseer · June 3

< 2 hours

Weekdays I do the bare minimum - crafting writs, endeavours and login rewards on each server. Well under an hour, usually. 2-3 hours per day on the weekend - surveys, bank and housing maintenance, maybe even some questing, although I am doing less and less of that these days.