Are you a computer games addict?

[caravel]

Something I just heard on BBC Radio 2 at work. One guy was playing 6 hours every night and getting up early to go to work every morning. He was married and apparently having no difficulties. Others were on the go intul the "early hours". The presenters barely concealed sarcasm was pretty much the normal British media attitude when it comes to computer gaming: It's for the unsociable geek among us, that spend our entire lives locked away.

Edit: oops, read the "8+" poll options as "6+"! be good if a mod would fix that bit thanks.

[Fragony]

I love to play computer games, always have, but addict no. Me getting obsessed with a game does happen sometimes, especially rpg and turn-based strategy games are my doom.

[caravel]

Same here. I tend to get involved on a given evening and can be there for four or five hours, then I might not play again for up to a week. My wife get's annoyed with me at times but she's ok with it. I think if I was sat in front of an FPS for hours on end, mindlessly blasting (), I wouldn't get off so lightly.

[Cowhead418]

Some days I won't play at all, and others I will have a three-five hour session. I usually only play one game at a time, and right now my obsession is with Sid Meier's Pirates.

[Lemur]

It's probably just a quirk of my place in life right now, but I like to game for about an hour a day, and this has become really hard to schedule. It's freaking ridiculous, but squeezing in an hour of EVE or Rome TW is not exactly easy. Too many babies, dogs, cats, wives and jobs, I suppose.

[Husar]

I voted "3 - 5 hours per day - this fits my shedule well".

Well, my gaming is dependant on a lot of things.
I do not have very much to do usually, so there is a lot of time for gaming, but my interest in games plays a very big role, when I´m not interested in a certain game, I won´t play it(it can still be a great game once my interest changes again). If I get a great new game that I like to play a lot, 8+ hours are no problem, 12 or more even, if I really have no other task. But lately the days where I play only 1-2 hours a day or not at all have become more, so one can never really tell.

[The Spartan (Returns)]

i played much more before but i do read eat and watch tv. btw that book is a really good Roman book which probably says im an addict.

[macsen rufus]

My name's Macsen, and I am an MTW addict - I worked this out when I realised I hadn't mown the lawn all year. So I did the front, ignored the six weeks worth of washing up, and launched a new campaign. But I do work six days a week, quite long hours, and I've never pulled a sickie to finish a battle... yet.

[drone]

I usually can only set aside two nights a week to play, and usually play 4-6 hours during these nights. The biggest problem is that these nights are during the week, otherwise I'd play all night long. I don't like short sessions for strategy games, it breaks up my planning. I suppose I could play some FPS/RTS types for an hour more often, but I don't really have one that I'm interested in at the moment.

If I ditch the woman so I can play every night, then I would say I have a problem.

[caravel]

My name's Macsen, and I am an MTW addict - I worked this out when I realised I hadn't mown the lawn all year. So I did the front, ignored the six weeks worth of washing up, and launched a new campaign. But I do work six days a week, quite long hours, and I've never pulled a sickie to finish a battle... yet.

So long as you're not hiding in your overgrown lawn preparing for a surprise flank attack against your neighbour you're ok.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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"Per day"?
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[Divinus Arma]

The poll really doesn't work for me. When I do play, I will play nonstop for sometimes up to 18 hrs in a day. Everyday? No. I have work and school. But when I do get a chance to play, I play for a disproportionate amount of time than my schedule really allows.

It also requires that I retain the novelty of the game. When the novelty wears off (which make take months as was the case with vanilla RTW and MTW), I stop completely for weeks or months on end.

I am aching to buy a new gaming comp since my last one fried, but I just know that I will end up spending unreasonable amounts of time on EB. Better that I wait maybe.

[edyzmedieval]

Sort of. I usually play 1-2 hours of Day of Defeat, then 1 hour of EB.
The rest, I stay 3+ on the internet(this includes modding and reading history texts).

[Mongoose]

Bleh. One hour a day every once in awhile.

[zukenft]

8 hours easy each day during the last 7 months...
it will change by august though, as I will have a new "job" by then.

I'm going to remember those days of eating, drinking, sleeping in front of the monitor...

[Ianofsmeg16]

Since I lost my RTW disk I've played games less and less, perhaps 1-2 hours a day of Conquering Germany as Czechoslovakia in Hearts of Iron 2.