Playing games fulltime - how long for?

[BUDFORCE]

After I got made redundant in 2008 I played Eve Online about a year and a half, easy 8 hours a day +

 

[BUDFORCE]

Get a remote home-based job, then you can get paid for gaming.

Heeeeeeel yea.

I been at my current job four years, I work until 11am-1pm, then spend the rest of the afternoon playing PUBG.

 

[Smokey Deza]

Yeah, I could easily do it. Too many good games/mods out there.

Plan to drop my week contract in a year or two, then just work the weekend one. 16h a week, can't wait.

 

[Darujhistan]

Probably about 2-3 hours?

Used to be able to sit and play games all day in my late teens/early 20s but the attention span and the need to be an adult has ruined it for me these days

Plus now my age begins with 3 now, and i'm just always so damn tired now? Does this just continue till I die?

Yes, and you've seen nothing yet! Wait until you start groaning every time you bend over (ooh err) or stretch for anything.

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

Could you do this indefinitely or do you think you'd get bored?

*Satisfactory has entered the chat*

Any of the “simulation” style games can easily take hundreds of hours. So yes I think you can play games indefinitely. Assuming you have an interest in those types of games.

 

[SPG]

Delete

 

[nazhus]

Maybe remove multiplayer from the equation too, i.e. let's assume you can only play single player games during working hours.

If it was just singleplayer, i would only have a few games that would keep my interest long enough for me to complete them and then just find the rest too boring.

Multiplayer on the other hand, i could probably go for years or maybe forever, there are so many MMO's you can sink so much time in to, they're almost like a full time job.

 

[petridish]

I think I could carry it on for a decent period of time but with the caveat that whenever I do get the rare extended gaming session at the moment I don't seem to actually achieve anything. I doubt I'd be a 'good' full time gamer.

At that point it just becomes sitting infront of a computer 8+ hours a day and I already know I can do that...

 

[CuriousTomCat]

If I was getting paid for it I'd game 9 to 5. What an easy life that would be.

 

[Frenzy]

My love for gaming slowly died working in the industry, lol. I'm finding it extremely difficult to enjoy any gaming, maybe I'm depressed, maybe games are just ***** now. Meh

 

[LiE]

Peak WoW the only limitation on my ability to play was the need to sleep. Nowadays I'm very casual and even when I sometimes have an entire evening to myself I can do max 3 hours.