Poll of the Day > These gamers that put 100 hours into a game after its been out for a week....

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What do they do for a living? How do they have this much time to game?

I see all these stories, where somebody 100% a massive game in the first week, and I'm like "How???"

How do they get their income? How do they support this hobby? Just boggles my mind.

Some people go a bit overboard when a game they are really looking forward to releases. Back in the day I would usually hard core it over a weekend and finish most rpgs etc. Maaaybe if it was a really big game I was waiting for I'd even take a day off so I could have more time.

100 hours in a week really isn't that much, you can almost do it while working full time if your young enough to get by on very little sleep the whole time. Work 8 hours, play 12 hours, sleep 4 hours (eat while playing etc, 5 min shower and that is it). 12 hours over 7 days is 84 total. If you took 1 day off work, that would bring you to 92 (or it was a 3 day weekend). 2 days, or you work part time and 100 hours is pretty easy (or you sleep less than 4 hours a few days heh.

Real hard core is someone who doesn't work, or takes the whole week off, sleeps 2 hours a day and hits 140 hours in game (if it even takes that long to max).

There are people who play text based MMO's called muds, that not only have played over 12 hours a day for a week, a month, but on average that much over years (all the way back to the 90's). Check out a mud called 3 kingdoms and look at the nolife list. It lists the amount people have played over the last 2 weeks. I once topped that list for a year straight (Averaged 14 1/2 hours a day for a year), back before I got married lol. Stopped cold turkey after that as I realized I was wasting my life.

fettster777 posted...

What do they do for a living? How do they have this much time to game?

I see all these stories, where somebody 100% a massive game in the first week, and I'm like "How???"

How do they get their income? How do they support this hobby? Just boggles my mind.

For some people playing video games is a job, or at least a supplemental income.

rjsilverthorn posted...

For some people playing video games is a job, or at least a supplemental income.

Yeah, totally forgot to mention streamers, I know a few. They make money playing games (streaming), so then literally their work is playing a game and heck they can hit 100 hours in a week and still sleep a decent amount. 15 hours a day * 7 days = 105 hours in a week, you can sleep 8 hours, take a shower and have about an hour left over each day to do other stuff, not even hard.

Vacation

All you need is a couple of leave days for work Then you have loads of free time

Many things factor into this. Could be uni students, could have a part time job or maybe no job at all.

Yeah it's insane. Even on days when I don't have work or any other obligations, I find it hard to get more than 4 hours of gaming in (just as a matter of wanting to do something else). 7 or 8 hours is like my absolute upper limit. Sometimes I might stay up a little too late playing a game but only by like an hour. I'm not gonna sleep 4 hours a night just to blitz through a game

fettster777 posted...

What do they do for a living? How do they have this much time to game?

They don't.
Most of them play games for a living/side hustle, are disabled, are vets, or need to be taken care of by another person for one reason or another.
Most will not be honest with you. I knew a guy in STO for many years who was heavily invested in the RMT market. He would claim that he got his kids/wife to play the game for him, but the reality was he was using bots.

fettster777 posted...

What do they do for a living? How do they have this much time to game?

Teenagers or college kids who are blowing off school for a week or so to game, or who are on summer vacation. Retired people who have tons of free time. People with jobs who are so excited about a new game that they take a week or so off to get as deep into it as they can right off the bat. People who work from home who are neglecting their work (or just squeezing in a few hours a day) to game.

Or like other people have pointed out, eSports gamers or streamers who literally are working while they play.

Lots of people can manage to come up with short bursts of free time if they want to. It's mostly just a question of where your priorities lie.

The real scary thing is if you're looking at someone who games 100 hours every week.

Longest 'one go' gaming session I ever had was when Halo 3 came out, played from about 12:30 (after getting home from the midnight release) to around 3 p.m. that afternoon, so right at 15 hours. I was trying to do Heroic difficulty by myself and got stuck a few times (for instance, it took me almost two hours to beat the 'two Scarabs on the beach' part, because if I was driving the Warthog, my A.I. gunner couldn't aim for shit; and if I jumped in the gunner position, he couldn't drive for shit). But even that wasn't all the way straight through: I'd stop every hour or so and walk around a bit, eat, go to the bathroom, that sort of thing.

My brother is disabled and doesn't work and he finishes new games within days of release. Then, he wants to discuss the plot with me and every single time I'm only a couple of hours into it...

DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC posted...

Longest 'one go' gaming session I ever had was when Halo 3 came out, played from about 12:30 (after getting home from the midnight release) to around 3 p.m. that afternoon, so right at 15 hours. I was trying to do Heroic difficulty by myself and got stuck a few times (for instance, it took me almost two hours to beat the 'two Scarabs on the beach' part, because if I was driving the Warthog, my A.I. gunner couldn't aim for shit; and if I jumped in the gunner position, he couldn't drive for shit). But even that wasn't all the way straight through: I'd stop every hour or so and walk around a bit, eat, go to the bathroom, that sort of thing.

When I was in college, my two roommates and I basically played Final Fantasy VII for about a week straight. One of us would sit down and play for hours, and when that person absolutely had to go to class, or was just so tired/hungry they couldn't play anymore, they'd hand the controller to someone else. Then that person would play for hours. Then they'd hand it off to someone else.

We were all on different sleep schedules, so one of us would get a few hours sleep while someone else was playing, then wake up and play more.

I think we went like 9 straight days without ever turning off our PS1 once. We were probably averaging about 8 hours for each person (or sometimes more if one of us played less than the other two for whatever reason).

I can't even imagine gaming like that these days, though. The idea of all-nighers or gaming (or just living life) on less than 8 hours sleep just feels like physical torture now. I'm tired just writing this post.

I wish I had that kind of free time

Tbf, I also game at work Im playing TotK right now, and Im at work