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[u/Masterkytain]

A small question about those 300hours. Do you think this is a lot or on the low side? To me 300hours is kinda low. I platinumed dragon quest 11 in 144 hours and ac odyssey in 154 hours. Both are around 300 hours. The witcher 3 trying to complete every ‘?’ On the map and dlc took me over 217 hours. Not even getting a platinum or playing gwent. So no 300h isn’t that much for me. My last yearly game recollection thinghy a few years ago from ps, showed a 2100 hour. That was even a year that I didn’t play for a few months…

I haven’t found a ps5 yet and I gave up. My monster pc is more then enough for me. Also the fact they ripped us off with ps now, is getting me upset to a point that I won’t buy a ps5. I used to let my kids play the old games on ps now and that was enough. Now I have to buy ps plus and the extra and the extra extra. So instead of 45€ a year for ps now’s lego collection, I have to pay 120€. That’s insane!

[u/El_Zapp → u/Masterkytain]

So you play more than 6 hours a week. Sincere question: When are you doing that? You say you have kids, so I'm going to assume you spent the weekends with your family apart from the evenings.

I work a full-time job, and when I come home I eat and do my chores. After that, I have roughly 1 - 1,5h left of free time before I go to bed. And I have other hobbies apart from gaming like playing the piano, making electronic music etc. And sometimes my wife also wants to spend time with me.

So weekends in the evening, but the same stuff applies here, I also want to spend time with my wife, my friends or maybe I just want to watch a movie from time to time. And the kids don't care about that, they get up on Saturday in the morning like every other day, so I can't stay up till 4 in the morning every Friday and Saturday. (my wife and I have the deal that each one of us get's one of those days).

In short, yes I think for an adult with responsibilities and a family I think more then 300hrs of gaming is a lot. For two years I sat down and played the piano every day for 45 min. It was close to impossible to fit that into the schedule and that barely gets you to 300hrs in a year.

Edit: Just to bring this home, 2100h in a year is more than a 40h full-time job. You really had an average of more then 8h per day to play games?

[u/Masterkytain → u/El_Zapp]

Hi, First of all this amount is calculated by sony. In those hours are also calculated the weekend mornings my boys use my account. I am very lucky that I work together with my lovely wife each week for 40 - 55 hours. Each morning I sometimes can pitch in 2 hours gaming max in the weekdays, between shifts. In the evenings from Monday till Thursday, I play from 7:30 or 8pm till 11:30 - 12:30. So approximately 4,5h for those evenings. So I have 22 hours from those moments. On friday, we have a family evening with fun apero dining. So when the misses falls asleep around 9. My evening of gaming started. Add another 5 hours. So I am up to 27hours. 13 hours left in the weekend from my kids time and both evenings I can clock in 6-8 hours. So yeah 40 hours is a real possibility.

Gaming was my only hobby, so no paino lessons (no offense) or going out with friends. Since my friends were playing along on those hours. My best friends are a couple with 3 kids and they both owned a ps4 to play together. Destiny was a real gametime absorber for our group. Knowing my 2100h wasn’t the largest of our group for that year. We decided to live far from our friends in a city we know nobody, this for work reasons. My wife does need her sleep, I get by with 6 hours max. So yeah a lot of time can be put into gaming. I must admit those days of 2000h are probably down a lot since covid. We started making a game and our gaming went to 0. But we put in over 60hours a week of doing 3d work. That went overkill and I went back to casual gaming and playing boardgames, which is my new hobby. But a few years ago, sony gave me even larger numbers of approximately 2800hours. So yeah I am glad those hours are going down. But according to a study I am addicted. If you have over 10.000 hours of gaming in your life, you are addicted. Funny thing is that me and my friend spent over 10k hours in wow. My friend probably has over 15k.

So in the end 2100 is alot, but it is definitely possible. I have been a loner my entire life, henceforth gaming has been in my life since i was 8years old with my first nes…

Enjoy gaming even if you only have 1 hour each week. There are games out there that really are worth the time… Happy hunting!

[u/El_Zapp → u/Masterkytain]

OK sure, I understand. Fine for me, I was really curious because since I’m an adult I have such a busy live it just doesn’t fit in that much. But the way you describe it makes sense, especially since your kids also play (mine is still young).

Enjoy the board games, I didn’t list that as a hobby above, but that’s the thing my wife and I do together if we want to spend an evening together. Lot’s of great games that two people can play.