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I had answered the question before reading the thread and i answered 10,000 hours. Then i went down and read it was the same # in the poll. Very interesting. Sad, but interesting.

I have absolutely no idea what so ever
I don't play much anymore on weekdays - but weekends I do pull some hours
And before I got work I could easily game most of the day away

So I'd proberly be in execcess of 10.000, although I didn't start gaming untill I bought my first computer at age 14
so: (10.000h / 11years) / 365days per year = 2.4h/day since I was 14....(you mention 25, so I use that and not my actual age, which makes me seem younger )
oh definately way waaaay past 10.000 hours then.

Hrm..all those years playing MUDs probably didn't help me any, heh..that and when Diablo 2 (and expansion) came out I stayed on it hour after hour..and there was a point where every night for atleast 5 hours a night me and my friend would play Age of Empires..then it's expansion..then Age of Empires 2..then it's expansion.

So wow..I have wasted my life.

I just guessed at 10,000 plus hours. In truth, I really don't want to spend too much time making the calculations...the results would be just too mortifying

Probably 10,000+... high school was a lonely time...

Well - I wouldn't agree that the hours are wasted per se.
It is entertainment (most of the time).

If I hadn't been gaming - I would have been doing other pass-time activities most likely.
I would likely not have used (all) the time effective on improving my skills in some aspect of life.

For the time to have been a waste, you shouldn't have had any enjoyment from them in my view - and I've had loads of fun gaming - thus I don't view them as a waste

I voted 5000 hours, although this is far too much - but it is probably closer than 1000 hours. I would guess maybe 2500-3000 hours.

Like Xan, I don't view this as wasted time at all. On the contrary, playing computer games and watching football is the best easily accessible relaxation I know of.

How on earth am I supposed to know that?
I could only give an average per week or sg, but there are periods when I don't play at all, and periods (like last week, when I was at home, ill) when I spend days with playing...

I guess 5000 hours, it's so long ago that I was playing wacky wheels

I took the 5000 hours option, but it's probably closer to 2500 or so. It's pleasant, escapist fun after the tension of the day, and no more wasted than watching a movie or listening to music.

Most definitely more than 10,000 hours and when Wow comes out more than 20,000

I'm not sure, but I've probably played for more than 1000, seeing as I first started playing on the computer when I was 7 or 8, when I was first allowed to play Warcraft.

I voted 100...BG2 is the only game I've played compulsively from start to finish, (what's that, 300 hours?) and then I've played some Diablo 2 and some AOE2, probably adding up to another 100 or hours together. I never play any computer games anymore (dunno why )...

I am probably about halfway between 100 and 1000 hours, so I put 100 just to make you all feel bad

I'm surprised at some of the replies here, but then.... I'm quite a bit older than the projected 25, but I had to put about 5000, though it's probably less, and over a short period of years when I was obsessed. (Ultima Underworld springs readily to mind... ) Today I play maybe a couple of hours every 14 days, and I'm getting increasingly more choosy when it comes to games.

[QUOTE=Moonbiter]I'm surprised at some of the replies here, but then.... I'm <snip>[/QUOTE]

Well - as I wrote in my post, I "only" needed to play 2.4h a day since I was 14 (when I bought my first PC) to I was 25 to reach 10.000 hours of gaming.
And knowing that I can easily pick up 5-10hours a day in a weekend, it leaves quite an small number on average for the remainder days in the week.
And then add the time I've been unemployed, studying, studying an education that I didn't really follow (read: being home all day ) etc - then it isn't really a surprising number.

Many people watch television for as much time as I (and others) use on gaming, so personally - I think gaming is the better choice
If somebody said he was gaming on average 2½ hours a day - as is the case with anything - I doubt anybody would raise an eyebrow. It is only when taking the aggregated number of a long periode of time (11 years in my case, much longer in others) it seems more massive.

2½ hours a day dosen't sound as much. 10.000h over a periode of time sounds as much.

I voted 'I don't play games' because I'm a compulsive liar. Ha!

Weasel, can you add a 100000 hours option? Perhaps a 50000... that would be more fitting...

[QUOTE=frogus23]I voted 100...BG2 is the only game I've played compulsively from start to finish, (what's that, 300 hours?) and then I've played some Diablo 2 and some AOE2, probably adding up to another 100 or hours together. I never play any computer games anymore (dunno why )...
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I played some games, like the old SSI Gold Box series and some other games I don't remember many years ago (late 1980's, early 1990's). At that time, I played maybe a few hours a week, with very long pauses, sometimes months. The last game I played during that period was Warcraft II, after that I didn't play any games for 6 years or so. Then by the end of 2000 I got an ulcer and started playing BG and BG2 and then I found Diablo II and that's the only game I've really played extensively. Now I don't play any games again...I simply don't think it's fun always. I need different types of entertainment during different periods, much depending of the characteristics of my work, and right now I want art as entertainment, not computer games.