That’s based on a couple of assumptions, largely that the survey population of 1452 begins gaming around age nine and will play to age 45, and will game on average about nine hours a week in that span. Totalled up, that is 478 hours a year spent gaming (or about 25 per cent of hours worked in a full-time job), and then multiplied over that nine to 45 span, it’s 1.8 years.
Since we’ve already established that you’ll spend, what, about a year of your life sitting on the john, does this survey also account for mobile gaming while on the crapper?
The survey was taken by Playr2.com; the survey’s managers said the figures cited are averages. Those who play titles such as Madden or FIFA would be expected to spend less time with a game than someone playing an MMO.
Survey Says Gamers Spend Two Years Mashing Buttons [Joystick Division]
Elly Hart
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 11:28 AMWhat happens after the age of 45 to make people stop playing games?
Trjn
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 11:34 AMI can only assume crippling hand injuries.
Not looking forward to that.
Shane
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 11:36 AMTheir kids move out of home and take the consoles with them?
Shane
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 11:36 AMArthritis?
Shane
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 11:37 AMFailing eyesight/reflexes?
Shane
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 11:38 AMThat’s all I got. I intend to keep gaming until I am in my cold, hard grave. (Unless I get sick of it, of course)
♣TadMod♣
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 11:39 AMPeople become dull.
P4NT5
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 11:48 AMyour family stages an intervention and you go to gaming rehab
Lortarg
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 11:50 AMLastday.
Strange: The First Lady
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 11:52 AMI don’t know…my parents are almost 60 and still playing games. Although to be fair they’ve only been playing for around 15 years so far.
Personally I’m pretty sure I’m over that 2-year estimate already. For a fair few years there I used to do almost nothing but game, eat and sleep.
Strange: The First Lady
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 11:53 AMHahaha, just realised that means my parents STARTED gaming at about 45!
P4NT5
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 12:14 PMBecause you just happen to turn 45 on the 21st of December 2012…
Ghazarios
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 2:06 PMNothing; my Dad’s 47 and he still extensively plays video games, while working full time as well.
elhombre
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 11:58 AMHi my names elhombre and i’m a recovering wow addict. It’s been 4 months since my last raid.
I reckon in the 5 years of 5 day a week raiding I easily broke the 2 years.
Thank you Cataclysm for making me realize the error of my ways.
P4NT5
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 12:15 PMhave you seen the latest expansion?
Samedii
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 4:45 PMstarted playing wow @ wrath, got to level 80 1 night before cata release. got to 85 in about a week, was 85 for 7 hours and quit out of boredom, with the latest patch im uber addicted more so then ever. raiding nightly and grinded archology all the way to full looking for jinrock. ._.
Chazz
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 8:57 PMYou’re addicted from Wrath onwards? Man, you shoulda seen Vanilla WoW. That would’ve blown your mind.
Treyze
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 12:35 PM9 hours a week gaming?
Them there casual gaming hours, y’see?
I’m playing a lot less than I used to and I still manage to rack up at least 15 a week. Even more if you count time looking up videogame information or watching things related to videogames [gameplay vids, trailers, etc].
‘Gaming’ in the broader sense is probably a way bigger impact than this suggests.
Gam3r 4 lyF.
Samedii
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 4:47 PMthem defs be casual hours yo.
i game more then 9 hours a day.
mixed between WoW HoN and occiasional CSS ill be gameing from 5.30pm after work all the way through till 5-7 am
Lucas Brown
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 1:24 PMI don’t see how this is interesting in the slightest. This stat is deceptively intruiging, while being completely without meaning. You can say the same thing about how much someone will spend waiting at traffic lights their entire life etc, and not learn anything other than when you add a small activity up over someones lifetime it seems like a huge amount of time, when infact it may have been spread out, well balanced, in sprints, etc – which is the truly meaningful/interesting part.
Dark_Templar
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 1:47 PM9hrs…. Really?
I purchased the Witcher last week and have spent 30hrs on it so far, not to mention the 10hrs spent on a third run through Rapture.
SupremeBeans
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 2:07 PMOh god, I spent more than double that time on L4D2 just last year, let alone everything else I play. Hellooooooo wasted youth!
Scott
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 2:17 PMI think I ‘average’ between 15-30+ hrs a week.
That’s logged time by xfire or an estimate from steam. :S
Also. I mean, I’ve played 30+ hrs in Rift ALONE this week… let alone all the other games I reguarly enjoy :)
I can safely say I’ve broken that 2 yrs…. I guess im not an ‘average’ person that plays games eh? ;)
villa100
Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 9:59 AMback in the day i played wow alone from release to wrath and with all my combined characters i clocked around 200+ days play time blows the mind when i /played