How many hours a week do you play or watch video games?

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#1  Edited By tunaburn

i have a full time job, own my own MMA school which i work at for another 5 hours (thats 13 hours of work a day) and have a 5 year old daughter that i have 50/50 custody of so i have every other day, and a girlfriend i live with. But even with all that going on i play about 10 hours of games a week. like 1 1/2 hours a day average id say.
What about you guys? 
How much gaming do you fit into your busy (or not so busy) lives each week?

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#2  Edited By valrog

Too many. I can't give you a precise number.

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#3  Edited By Colin

I generally spend all day watching let's plays and starcraft streams since I'm currently unemployed so probably 50 - 70 hours a week I guess, but it's on a second monitor so I'm still looking around the internetz chatting on msn or whatever with it in the background.

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#4  Edited By tunaburn
@Colin: holy shit thats a lot of time!   props to you for being that into it!
I would definitely be in the 25 hour a week spot if i didnt train MMA everyday.....
sacrifice i guess
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#5  Edited By GunnBjorn

I've got a nine to five job and no family (kids, wife, gf, etc.) to support. I play about 2 hours a day, average. I have plenty of time to play more, but I don't want games to take over my life. Neither as a hobby nor for work. The weekends I use to clean up my apartment, visit family and/or friends, among other non-domestic activities. So, about 10 to 15 hours max a week.
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All of them, all the hours. I play things a lot.

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#7  Edited By tunaburn
@GunnBjorn:  thats kinda how i feel. also is it weird to say i try a lot of the time to play multiplayer games so at least im still kind of socializing?
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#8  Edited By wefwefasdf

I spend more time talking about games and watching games than I do playing at this point.

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#9  Edited By nekobun

I probably squeeze in at least 20 hours a week. My daily routine tends to firing up the 360 or the PS3 to blow through some stuff while on my stationary bike.

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#10  Edited By Hizang

Never enough it seems, always could do with some more game time.

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#11  Edited By BUCK3TM4N

i work 8:30 to 5 mon-fri, so i play about 1.5hrs a day 

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#12  Edited By tunaburn
@nekobun:  i used to play gears of war a ton. and whenever i would die and would be waiting for my team to finish the round i would do pushups, situps, high knees, or do some light weights. its actually a good way to get some excercise in and also make yourself not want to die even more in the game :)
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#13  Edited By iam3green

a lot that i can't think of. i know because i'm unemployed so i don't have work.

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#14  Edited By WickedCestus

I'm 16, I have no job, and it's the middle of summer vacation.  
 
A lot.

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#15  Edited By GunnBjorn

Well, don't you socialize (to a degree) with the people that visit your MMA school?
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#16  Edited By tunaburn
@GunnBjorn:  of course. we go out and watch the UFC's at bars and stuff. and we are having a team bowling tournament on the 6th after one of my students does his next cage fight on the 5th. 
But im weird. i dont like crowds generally but i do like talking with people. so online games is a good social tool for me.
just like these type of forums are.
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#17  Edited By Vexxan

The 360 has been running hot since Summer of Arcade kicked in, been playing well above my average the last two weeks.

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#18  Edited By BBQBram

Well let's see, I play a lot if I'm into it but that's not everyday anymore. Sometimes I'll power through a new release in a few days, or spend weeks with a fighting game - other times I don't play for a week straight. Yet I'm always on here and other sites a few times a day, usually watch a Quick Look or two, and of course my regular podcasts. I'd say on average I spend 21 hours a week on games and to me that's a lot less than what it used to be. Still love it though!

By the by, props on the Steve Zissou avatar - I love that movie. I was at an island in the Mediterranean last year and I was listening to the Life Aquatic soundtrack non-stop!

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#19  Edited By imsh_pl
@supermike6 said:
I'm 16, I have no job, and it's the middle of summer vacation.  
 
A lot.
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#20  Edited By tunaburn
@BBQBram:   im in the process of getting the zissou society badge tattood on me :D
 
 true story
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#21  Edited By Th3_James

Not enough. This is the first Saturday morning in along time I have slept in past 11 and just sat around playing games in my boxers for a good couple of hours. Felt really satisfying, during the week I have little time left at the end of the day and will stay up till 2 playing games some nights, but that fucks me over when I have to get up every morning at 6:30 for work.

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#22  Edited By the8bitNacho

Around 12-16 probably. Far, far less than I used to.

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#23  Edited By No0b0rAmA
@supermike6 said:
I'm 16, I have no job, and it's the middle of summer vacation.  
 
A lot.
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#24  Edited By tunaburn
@Kombat: i remember playing final fantasy 7 non stop. beat the game. bred multiple gold chocobos. got omnislash, quadramagic, knight of the round, mime, beat ruby weapon, and almost beat emerald weapon. had 3 lvl 99 characters, and then got my save game data overwritten with the first save on my friends playthrough... i think thats when i cut down on my gaming hours.
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#25  Edited By BulletproofMonk

I'm on vacation now so probably around 30-40 hours. I have a lot of games to play.

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#26  Edited By mike

A couple hours a week, at the most...and you thought you were busy.

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#27  Edited By the8bitNacho

@tunaburn: I cut down about eight months ago, when I started dating a wonderful girl on a very crummy paycheck. When you're only pulling down $100 a week, it becomes difficult to play games obsessively and date.

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#28  Edited By crusader8463

No idea other then to say a lot. Usually 5-10+ hours a day. There are too many variables to really count though. For example, the last few days I have only played about 5-6 hours a day as I have spent most of the time watching TV shows I recently downloaded. Next week though, when I have watched all them, I will have nothing to do but play games so that time will probably double.
 
I usually get about 5-8 hours of sleep a night, so that leaves 16-19 hours each day that I will spend doing some combination of games/tv/looking at the wall/surfing online. If I have a new game that I'm enjoying then most of that time will be spent with the game. If I have just found a new TV show I'm really into then it will be mostly that.

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#29  Edited By tunaburn
@Kombat: lol $100 a week you must be young still i couldnt pay my car payment and insurance with that.
 not to say i have any money. im broke as shit. i usually play the hell out of a game as to really get my moneys worth. and the free to play league of legends has let me spend dozens of hours of enjoyment on it.
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#30  Edited By PhatSeeJay

Right now I watch more than I play. Not found the motivation to play, except for alpha testing Battlefield 3.

But it's surely a good five to seven hours a day. Yeah.. I have a lot of time on my hands, which is why it's kinda depressing to play games.

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#31  Edited By management

@supermike6 said:

I'm 16, I have no job, and it's the middle of summer vacation.

A lot.
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#32  Edited By Azteck

Had it only been playing games then it wouldn't be too bad, but if you bring in watching too? Oh too, too much. I watch an obscene amount of Let's Plays and various other vids, lately it's been the minecraft vids that Yogscast  put up.

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#33  Edited By tunaburn
@crusader8463: do you not have any friends? just wondering
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#34  Edited By HandsomeDead

Zero.

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#35  Edited By crusader8463
@tunaburn: Not really. Just a few people I play games with on Steam and talk to a lot. I had a few people in High School I guess you could have considered friends, but after we graduated I never heard from them. I live in a very small farming community in the middle of nowhere so I don't exactly have a lot of opportunities to meet people I can stand to be around. Unless I want to get stoned/drunk and drive around on dirt roads and break/fix cars there really isn't anyone around to do anything with.
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#36  Edited By the8bitNacho

@tunaburn: I'm in college.

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#37  Edited By Yanngc33

I peak at 40 hours usually 20

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#38  Edited By Colin
@tunaburn said:
@Colin: holy shit thats a lot of time!   props to you for being that into it! I would definitely be in the 25 hour a week spot if i didnt train MMA everyday..... sacrifice i guess
Haha well if I had something else to do I'd probably do that.  Also note I don't watch any TV at all so basically starcraft streams are my TV channels :P
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#39  Edited By natetodamax
@supermike6
I'm 16, I have no job, and it's the middle of summer vacation.  
 
A lot.
Same!
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#40  Edited By ajamafalous

Middle of Summer, so pretty much all day.

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#41  Edited By LiquidPrince

Currently during summer, somewhere around 2 - 5 hours a week.

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#42  Edited By Grillbar

anywhere from 0-40 hours a week depends on how much i have to work, sleep and spend time with my friends and grilfriend. like today i have for some strange reason sinked in 8 hours in white knight chronicles 2 due to the fact that i have for the last 13 day had a 16 hours work day so today was all about doing nothing important and just relax.

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#43  Edited By dotpatrick

Anywhere from as low as 10 to as high as 35 depending on how busy I am outside of work.
 
I have about 80 minute commute on a bus 5 days a week so I spend at least an hour each day playing some handheld games just going to work. From there it depends how busy I am. This week I didn't have much going on so I was parked in front of the TV playing games 4-5 hours a day. I think it helps that my girlfriend loves playing games so she will either play multiplayer with me and even if it is a single player game she will sit there watching me playthrough a game while we talk.

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#44  Edited By tunaburn
@crusader8463:  that sucks man. well you should join a club or something. I prefer jiu jitsu :)
@Colin
i dont watch a ton of tv but i do watch probably like an hour a night. so i guess if you watch games intead that does add like 7 hours.
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#45  Edited By crusader8463
@tunaburn: Those don't exist where I live. The closest city is an hour drive away.
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#46  Edited By hockeymask27

to much. Only sports  and friends pull me away.

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#47  Edited By Skald

About five right now, maybe ten.

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#48  Edited By tunaburn
@crusader8463:  i see.... how about this:
build a trebuchet. 
record you launching something with it.
????????
profit
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#49  Edited By Seedofpower

My steam profile tells me about 40 hours a week.

Damn that is a full time job. . .

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#50  Edited By tunaburn
@Seedofpower: except 2 things. 
you pay to do it
you like to do it