Your future in gaming?

Next year i will be moving away to  New York City for college and except for a majority of the college bill, I will be paying all of my other bills. Thinking about this worries me a bit because, though i work 30 hour weeks now, between work and school i will more than likely not have time for video games. I feel like that may be the time to throw in the towel on video games, maybe not in whole but greatly reduce the hours i play largely because i dont even think i could afford a tv.  
So my question to you is, do you fear that in the future you too will have to give up this great hobby? 

Naaa video games are part of my lifestyle. Never! NEVER!

Doing a uni course in game software development, so probably not. Unless I get a job in the industry and grow to loathe them.

yeah, I end up going off and on playing games being in college. Sometimes you just wish there was more time 

I'm in college right now and I don't really have time to play games. On the weekends when I do have some spare time, I prefer to spend it with friends. I miss gaming though, especially when all the podcast's I listen to are raving about the latest game. You just gotta figure out what's most important to you in your life right now. Gaming for me right now is kind of at the end of the line, as far as priorities go.

Im kinda in the same position. It is quite sad. But I think I can spare the cash for the odd game every so often. And if not, Im not leaving the house over Christmas/Easter.

Yeah it kinda sucks. But i guess i have to make compromises so that i don't get fucked  when i'm 30.

" Yeah it kinda sucks. But i guess i have to make compromises so that i don't get fucked  when i'm 30. "

I love games and I'll always manage to find time for them but my first year of university did rather greatly reduce the hours I had to game in and the work is supposed to get a lot heavier further into the course. Ironically my course is in computer games programming.

Trust me, you'll play more games than ever in uni. Especially in first year, I just never studied and crammed before all my exams and did well

Don't worry, duder. You'll find the time.

My interest in games has really taken a hit in the past two years or so, but I still play a couple times a week (I'm a college student living at home). Once Black Ops comes out I'll go back to my routine of "Go to school, slam the backpack down, play xbox until I fall asleep" that I had with Modern Warfare 2.

Episodes instead of full iterations. By which I mean, compact snacks that come out regularly. We have games that work like movies, there's no reason there shouldn't be games that work like TV shows. Procedural and such. Seasons and such. For whatever reason, Telltale is the only company that did it and they make comedy adventures. Most good TV right now is hard drama. Games could develop some kind of equivalent. You just need writers that don't suck, aka not game writers, to pop into the field. Then you have shows like 24 which are practically videogames in movie form. There's no reason a 24 episode action game series couldn't exist.

" Episodes instead of full iterations. By which I mean, compact snacks that come out regularly. We have games that work like movies, there's no reason there shouldn't be games that work like TV shows. Procedural and such. Seasons and such. For whatever reason, Telltale is the only company that did it and they make comedy adventures. Most good TV right now is hard drama. Games could develop some kind of equivalent. You just need writers that don't suck, aka not game writers, to pop into the field. Then you have shows like 24 which are practically videogames in movie form. There's no reason a 24 episode action game series couldn't exist. "

i can still see myself playing video games. i'm in college and i have plenty of time to play video games. on the weekends i go to my friend's house and play video games with each other. it is kind of like a mini lan party. me and him both play modern warfare 2 together and he has other friend's playing also.

Never.