I’m guessing the answer to this question is yes.
If so, how much sleep?
As a parent, with two super young kids, video game time can be scant. How do you get more video game time? You bugger sleep off and stay up all night glued to the TV screen.
Yay?
I’m doing not so bad right now. Mainly because I’m pretty much done with all the games I was really excited about. But damn, Bloodborne killed me. Metal Gear Solid V killed me. Firewatch killed me. The Witness killed me.
Dark Souls III is gonna kill me.
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48 responses to “Tell Us Dammit: Do You Sacrifice Sleep For Video Games?”
Very rarely will I sacrifice sleep for a game.
On Monday though I played the Division until 11.15pm, then to wake up at 6am felt awful. I feel like I need more sleep than the average person to feel perky and energetic in the morning.
The average person doesn’t feel perky and energetic in the morning 😉
And we resent those who do.
Lol – I’m being tested for sleep apnoea atm…. one of the questions they ask is “do you ever wake up feeling refreshed?” What!?!? Seriously! I don’t think I’ve ever woken up feeling refreshed in my life! But then, I’m a gamer with 3 kids 6yo and under!!! 😉
On the right occasion. Usually, it’s because Steam has spent all night downloading a new game and finishes just when you’re ready to get some shuteye. I’ll maybe stay up maybe an hour just to actually finally get started before I shut it off. I do too occasionally stay up later if I’m playing online with friends.
Stardew Valley. My first weekend was literally, buy game, download game, goodbye 20 hours worth of life spent farming in the little virtual world. It’s not gotten much better, I’ve got 60 hours logged now and into Autumn of the 2nd year
Not on school nights but Friday onwards my days tend to become inverted so technically I guess I’m sacrificing sleep but it’s only relative to whenever I get up the next day.
I try not to, especially on work nights. But I do sometimes play for longer then I realise and I’m like bugger, probably should have stopped half an hour ago.
At the moment I’m sacrificing sleep for… I don’t actually know. I keep not ending up in bed til 2:30-3 or so, but I have no idea where that time goes. Reading shit on the internet I guess?
I’m just glad I have decent train trips to nap through.
Depends on the time of year. My partner manages to forgo sleep for games pretty much year round. I can do it if all I’m doing is working, but at the height of uni semester…fuck you, I need a nap.
Sometimes i do but it is never intentional, Usually i just get caught up playing and look at the clock and wonder where the time went.
I sacrifice sleep intentionally for the NBA free agency start as well as the trade deadline though.
Yes. Too much.
Not anymore but I’d regularly do it in my 20s.
I did get up at 4:30am to play Deus Ex: HR when it came out. But these days I’d rather get my shuteye.
I’ll forego sleep unwillingly. For example, I’ll look at the clock at around 9, knowing full well I’m going to get off and sleep at 10. At the moment I’m playing The Division, last night I managed to catch myself before it got too serious at 10:15, and all I did was a story mission and two side missions. This tends to happen a fair bit, I’ll do a few small things that I reckon only take like 5 minutes, look at the clock when I think it’s been half an hour but it’s actually been three.
I’ll start up gaming at 7 and then it would cut to the sponge-bob voice over guy saying ‘6 hours later’ and I’m still just sitting there.
I used to, but these days with being sick, I sacrifice video games for sleep 🙁
Not sure if it’s sleep time or not, but usually spend a couple hours gaming after the wife is in bed. However if I didn’t game, I’d likely spend that time watching anime.
Intentionally? No.
But losing track of time and accidentally playing till 1am? Sure do.
Yes, if I want to play games on weekdays, the only time I have free is very late at night. It’s the only times that makes sense with my job. I’ve also found myself waking up early in the morning to play sometimes.
I try not to play too late because if I fall into that trap I’m in zombie mode the next day. Bloodborne was the only game last year where I’d be playing into the early hours every day.
Every day of the week 🙁 I spend the weekends with the missus, so my only gaming time is during the week, so usually I’m running on 4hrs sleep a night… which kills me during the day.
I sacrifice video games for sleep
I’ll admit that since the release of The Division the clock has been getting passed midnight before I have gone to bed on a few occasions. It’s nice to have found another game that has captured my attention this much though.
I have 2 jobs, 2 young kids and a wife. You bet I skip sleep for games otherwise I’d only get a couple hours a week to play them.
Generally I miss 1-2hrs sleep each night, get something like 6-7hrs. I still operate fairly well on 6hrs sleep so it’s no biggie.
You get 6-7 hours WITH 2 KIDS?! What’s your secret? 🙂
Kids go to bed at 8pm on the dot. Both of them go to sleep and stay that way till morning 😛 Ages are 2 and 3.5.
8pm till I go to bed is gaming time for me (on the nights i’m not at 2nd work or spending time with wife)
Exactly the same…wife, 2 kids under 5. If i don’t sacrifice sleep I’ll never get to play games.
Me too, although I try to limit the late night sessions to Friday / Saturday nights. Usually I have to force myself to go to bed after 12-12:30 but on the odd occasion I will push it to 1am.
I sacrifice games for sleep. I’m up most nights until 1-1.30, up to get the kids ready for school at 6, then off to work… and still I feel like I dont have enough game-time.
No can do, if I’m not in bed between 10 and 11 I won’t function the next day!
Not any more, I’ve got a 2 and a 4 year old so sleep is precious!
Sleep what is this sleep you speak of. Oh its the thing that the kids do so I can get my game time in.
Not often, but on occasion for a big game yes – I’ve been known to stay up too 1 – 2am a couple of nights a week, when I full well know my kids will be waking me up at about 6am (not to mention the regular nightly visits and putting them back to bed too).
This is pretty much exactly my life (even down to the 6am wake up time). Coffee is my best friend during these times.
Worth it though.
Not anymore, thankfully!
I think it’s Just. Not. Worth. It. The games will always be there waiting. Sleep and a restful refreshed mind & body will not – unless it’s properly taken care of.
I was once the type to wake up whilst everyone was asleep to get ‘that one more gaming fix’ or ‘need to see what happens next’ or ‘this newly launched console is amazing, let’s see it’s games/ see what it can do’ kinda guy – until I just came to my senses that I do not like that groggy, awful tired look during the day. It just wastes a whole day as a result of recovering…besides, the games today just are not that interesting (same ok same FPS, etc etc) unlike how it was during the 3rd till the 6th console generation.
Nah. I don’t really need to though. I get a couple of hours of gaming time after work before my partner gets home, even then she usually has no issues. As long as she doesn’t miss MKR she’s happy.
If worse came to worst I’d just drag the Xbox upstairs to thd other TV. If anything, I’m usually all gamed out by bedtime haha.
Yep but I’m a it different to most. No late nights, I get up at 4am to get 2-3 hours in before work.
Which highlights my priorities, I want to be fresh for gaming …. any energy remaining I’ll then consider giving to work.. 🙂
Yeah if the game grabs me enough… Wife, 1 child and 1 on the way.
The first week of The Division destroyed me not getting to sleep till around 1230 and up everyday at 6 for work, by the weekend I was not well but what did I do? The only rational thing and stay up even later… not getting to sleep till around 2….
Ah video games.
Not anymore, but chances are, when Legion gets released, I will end up making an exception.
lets see. i work full time, have a wife and daughter whom i spend time with each evening. and i went to bed at 4am, got 3 hours sleep, then went and bought some video game nostalgia from someone off a facebook sales group, then went to work.
i think i have issues.
When I am God-King, Emperor of Unified Earth, there will be a four day work week. The weekend will be the same, but the ‘work week’ will allow anyone to take one of those days when they want it.
It won’t be a specific fixed day for everyone, but could be anything for anyone. It means that all but the smallest of businesses will still remain open 5 days a week at least, and everyone will have one day that they can run work-day errands on, confident that there are still enough folks working to deal with their errands.
It should reduce the lunch hour crush, and hopefully put an end to the need to either start late or finish early so you can make it to the bank or other bloody inconsiderate business that works the same hours you do.
Only if it’s a game that you can’t leave. Like doing raids in Destiny, based on the fireteam it could take 1 – 4 hours. Being peer pressured into doing something you already enjoy isn’t difficult…
Not even raids, any multiplayer game where the team is like “Just one more round.” Bastards.
As a new dad, Friday and Saturday nights are the only times I get to do solid gaming sessions. I stay up from about 10pm-2am playing games whilst my wife and daughter go to sleep. It’s worth it because it’s the “Me” time that is hard to find as a parent
when GTA San Andreas came out, my cousin and I rented it (oh god rented) and played it for 72 hours straight. surviving on energy drinks and various snacks. wasn’t pretty.
Anywhere from two to three hours. This is occasionally, mostly on CSGO.
Based on the comments i do it way more than most. I see a few “Late nights” finishing at 10. That’s generally when the nights starting for me sometimes. I work in a global team and 11pm or even midnight conference calls are not unusual. After these I cant just switch off after so I play an 1/2 – 1 hour or so to unwind. On occasion i have pushed the 1 hour out a little but if I am getting 5 hours a night I’m generally OK. I do try and catch up on the weekend though you cant really tbh. Its not ideal but you get used to it, or you have a psychotic episode.
SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK!!
I average about 6 hours.
Yep. Pretty much what was written – I’ve got 2 young kids and work 50 hours a week. So to get any time to myself to game for anytime more than like an hour or 2 I need to blow off some sleep. I am just grateful for coffee and redbull most days.
Yes. I usually have less than 6hrs and forget that i’ll probably be woken several times due to the age of our kids. I will often forget the washing up until after midnight too. I know things should not be like this.