Playing games fulltime - how long for?

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Couldn't think of the right title for this thread, but I'm forever thinking "I need to get fired so I can focus on playing some games". There's all these amazing games I've got that I want to try but never get round to and a lot of my game time gets consumed playing a competitive online shooter or FUT, leaving very little for other games. Or I'll waste time on forums, watching TV etc.

So I got to thinking, in the world of numerous subscription game services, game sales and growing backlogs, how long do you reckon you could go for? By which I mean say instead of going to work you just sat and played games all day. Could you do this indefinitely or do you think you'd get bored?
To keep it sensible, let's assume you can't play any games not already released, otherwise you'd just have an endless stream of new content to enjoy.
Maybe remove multiplayer from the equation too, i.e. let's assume you can only play single player games during working hours.

From where I'm sitting, I can't really put a timeframe on it, many years at least.
 
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Been playing games most days for the last 40 years, dont see that changing any time soon :)
How many hours a day do you play? I'm talking about playing for say 7-8hrs a day longer than you normally do (I appreciate not everyone is in fulltime employment, so if they are playing 12hrs a day already it might be hard to fit in an extra 7).

Its tolerance now, some games are just so complicated with horrendous UI I just do not have the patience to learn.
I think it depends what games you play, in some cases it is old games I struggle with the UI on. Like System Shock 2 was a bit fiddly, or old games without objectives to guide you through the level can be confusing, lots of backtracking, trial and error on opaque puzzles etc. I also think I'd have more patience to learn UIs if I had more time for playing games, it's like nowadays if I sit down and try and learn a new strategy game that's basically the day's gaming consumed before I've even got off the tutorial, maybe I pick it up again a few weeks later and have forgotten half of it, etc.
 
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