RF Generation Message Board

Title says it all.

Remember: this includes not only the actual gaming, but also being on forums, blogging, going to garage sales/videogame stores, etc...


For me, I'm in vacation now (until late september, yay!) so I'm at an average of 30-40 hours per week  :D
When I got classes, this drops to about 15-20 hours per week and during exam period to about 10 hours per week or less even :(

I spend more time on this site than I do playing games these days.

Selling my games and taking a vacation (or even moving somewhere new) is an option for me right now.

Most of the time, I'm 10-15 hours (my vote). Taking into account X-Play, Internet time, and gameplay.

However, when I'm in "addict" mode (like I've been the last few weeks) that number can get near to or above 40 easily. :P

>40 most weeks

lately though much less what with the working and the friends being around an wanting to do things that involve moving.

I put less than 5 because I didn't read the part about including stuff related to video games also. So with that included, it's easily more than 40. I probably average 5 hours/day here plus 8 hours garage saling, 2 hours at the flea market.

15-20 I'd say roughly

There's a huge difference between less than 5 and more than 40 :P
Maybe I should've made it so people can change their votes...oh well :)

Less than 5 hours, I have been working 60 hours a week and sleeping most of the weekend.

10-15, including this site. I don't game that much, but I can also get into addict mode and hit 25+ hours or more. A really bad week will be 35 or more hours. That is a LOT for me.  :)

I had to say over 40, though only maybe 15-20 hours or so a week are actually spent playing games. The rest of the over 40 hours are spent perusing this site and others like Kotaku and Joystiq during the day at work.

I gotta say about 30-40 a week

Gaming is a part-time job for me. I'd say 15-20 hours is the average. Some weeks I'm just swamped and no extra time, but others I'm crusing everywhere for games, music, movies, hardware, software, and many other numbers of things. Sometimes I'll log onto an online game like Battlefield and not get up for nearly 5 hours to eat some food, then go back to the front lines. Once I move out on my own I'm certainly positive more time will be spent on my entertainment goods than now since there'll be money going towards a mortage and living expenses that it'll be less feasible to keep up with my spending habbits.

Most weeks less than 5 but occasionally 40 for an anticipated new release I've been really looking forward to. Since I tend to multitask a lot while using PCs I don't dedicate time to reading news or working on the site per se, but do so while in the midst of several things at once.

I easily spend 20-30 hours a week gaming when I work 5-6 days a week and I spend more time gaming when I have more days off.

Gaming's pretty damn important to me, so 15-20 hours during the school year.  That's a considerable amount of time in a fast-paced American life.   Although, a lot of that is from surfing here and other gaming sites, if that's to be counted.
I'd estimate during the summer months I'm up to maybe 30 to 35 hours.

However, I'm in the school marching band and during marching band season (tomorrow through October) my time is pretty much reduced to a good 4 hours or so of home playing time as I'm juggling band and school simultaneously... although I usually get 3 or 4 more hours in via playing handhelds on bus rides to marching band contests and before and after practice waiting to get home. :P

I'm going with 10 to 15 hours of reading and playing.  This does not include my obsession with Rfgen though.

Ah, but you should've included Rfgen, though.
I made the poll to see how much people spend on all videogame-related things, not just the actual gaming (which can often be much less)

The poll is looking good by the way; very balanced out  :D

I voted and then thought about how much time I spend in the forums. 8-(

Tsk tsk. People should read first and vote later.
That just shows how hasted our society is.  Don't blame yourself though, blame society :P

I'm not sure it's a good thing, but the management side of the hobby now takes up more time for me than the actual playing, there's just so much to get through that when I do manage to sit down with a controller it's quite frequently time to catch some sleep. Life used to be so much simpler when I was at college.

I'm sure I will be saying that when I am through college. Right now I am saying that life was simpler before I had a job period.

I'd say 2 hours a day.

I want to say 10-15 but I realy dont know.  As I got fired yesterday, I have lots of time but as I sorta have a girlfriend, it's hard to think about hours and games.

Bummerdoodle on getting fired... :(

It happens to most people usually once in their life though, so don't feel down in the dumps. :)

HAPPY TIMES AHEAD, I assure you!

Yup. Lots of gaming time while looking for a job. And eventually finding something better than your previous job :)

I spend almost all my time with games around me. Whether it be the internet, actually playing one, just looking at a box, or talking about them with friends.

While I was at uni, depending on how much work I had I usually put in about 10 hours a week.  I've just finished uni now, and while I'm looking for a job I'm finding much more time to play. 20+ hours, sometimes as many as 30 hours.  It's great.  I need a job to buy more games though...

Probably about 5 hours a day, sometimes more.  So, I've put myself in the 30-40 category :-)

I put myself under 5-10 basically because my life demands a lot from me. And by life I mean other people.

I'm on gamefaqs more than any other site posting on board 8, but that's a social board so I dunno if that actually counts or not. Other than that I really don't play videogames much anymore. But when I used to get really into an RPG the number could be well above 40 easily.

Unless what you're talking about in that forum isn't about games at all, it still counts.

I haven't played more than about an hour of games thus far this week. *shakes fist at school*  :laugh:

Oh well, education before gaming...  :P :)

I don't start for another few weeks.

Imagine how much we could accomplish if we wouldn't waste all our time on playing games. We'd have found a cure for cancer by now for sure.

Anyways, I think I'm between 5 and 10 hours a week at the moment. And it's probably closer to 5 than 10. The most recent game I finished was Okami for the Playstation 2 and that took me months. I played some Civilization IV inbetween, but not enough to push the average weekly play time over 10 hours.

Nah, with my power out the last 4 days I figured I would have done something productive...but I found I was just sitting on the porch staring at the world rather than sitting in my chair staring at a screen.

Perhaps the former is better for the soul, but hell, doesn't seem so different.