Rhialto, on 04 February 2014 - 10:04 AM, said:
I have a girlfriend, 2 daughters (twin) and a job. I wake up, breakfast with everyone, move to job, return home, dinner with everyone, help twins with homework and I usually either watch TV for a hour or do something else and most of the time I'm good for 2 hours on the computer before ging to bed.
The 105 days you're talking about is 24hrs a day? In the best possible scenario I can tell you that I'm good to play maybe 2 hours every evening in average so let's do the math. 105 x 24 = 2520 hours total so I need to divide by 2 for the hours I can afford every single evening of a year, and that gives 1260 days, or roughly 3.45 years.
Everything you said in understanding what I said is correct. 105 24 hour days. I played game (Gears of War 2 on the Xbox 360) for nearly the 75 days I estimated first. That was over the course of 2.5 to three years I'd estimate. I didn't feel like I was glued to the game all the time. Matter a fact, the time pretty much just flew by.
Not everyone has the same responsibilities as you only being able to game 2 hours a day. Even that isn't very much. Typically, not having a GF, or kids my down time at home can extend from three to four and half hours. Now, by no means do I spend that entire time gaming, but I could. And that doesn't include the weekends which I have spent 8+ hours gaming in a day. Point is, gaming for even three hours a night and going 6+ on the weekend can be easily doable depending on what someone has to do. And that would equate to a lot less time than 3.45 years it would take you to do what he did as well as working a job and doing anything else he'd need to do.
I don't disagree that it's a lot of time spent on the game, or gaming in general. But by comparison to many people that would say it's a waste of time that aren't gamers, or even the ones saying it here - I ask how much time they spend essentially wasting time at bars, watching TV or just hanging out with friends? Those same people - I know because they've said it to me - will knock on me for gaming while say/or in a sense say everything they do is so constructive. Which includes everything I mentioned. (And while I wouldn't straight up say those things are wasting time, I don't consider it any different than when I game with my buddies or other "real" people online)
But even then, 3.5 years to log 105 days of game time in... That really doesn't sound so bad to me either.
Voidsinger, on 04 February 2014 - 11:31 AM, said:
Your calculations are out.
First of all, my pre-HSR games were usually much quicker (yes, you die when you lag and can't hit much). Second, I used concurrent gaming, where if I died, I jumped straight into another match (picked that up from a PGI staffer). Then, prior to 12 man games, and all the startup rubbish, games were much quicker, both in and out. I wasn't playing any other games. So, based on an average of about 5 minutes per game, you get:
21 600*5/60 = 10759 hours/24 = less than 60 days. Over 14 months.
Yes, a great deal. I've been a BT fan for over 25 years though, and didn't game online at all for over 10 years (last try was MW2: Mercs where I was slaughterd due to dialup). My personal life details are my own, but you have an active social life. For many reasons, I don't. I also don't watch TV.
Void, in his defense, those were my calculations. But even then I didn't consider it any real big length of time.
As for the bold, I don't have a social life around my area as well. I also don't watch much TV. My social life pretty much consists of the guys I game with, a few of them are my best friends.
Edited by xTrident, 04 February 2014 - 12:11 PM.
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) is you can run 20 Mechs and one after each other you enter a game and when match start you quit and do the same with next... by the time you do that with the 20th you're 1st should be free. For each match you get a minimal amount of everything, a little more if your team manage to win without you. This is until they fix by closely monitor if a player is still present or not. I see it still happen from time to time people asking if they will get C-Bills and XP if they quit before en of match.
