How much is your life worth?

[Iggle Piggle]

I have recently found myself unemployed which has been fantstic as it happend just as I picked up BF3. I have now played 250+ hours which is a sobering thought for me, that is over 10 days of solid game play but I've enjoyed every second of it.

I've never seen games show you such stats before so I thought I would check out the leaderboards on Bad Company 2 to see who has played the most. One player has spent nearly 3900 hours on the game, that equates to over 159 days played. 159 days of his life just on one game, I would imagine a lot on other games too.

Just how much is too much?

[Silvs]

That does seem quite a lot!

I had 30+ days on MW2, but I didn't watch the telly. I would play 2 or so hours a day which is 2 days a month. People spent a lot longer in front of the telly. It just doesn't keep a counter. If we looked how much of our lives we sat in front of a electronic box I think we would be staggered!

[Funk]

I've also recently become unemployed but actually game less. If I'm not job hunting in the daytime, I feel guilty. Right now I'm waiting to see what'll be posted to the job boards over the course of the morning and get my applications in.

Am I doing 'unemployed' wrong...?

[Mattygooner]

Funk said:

I've also recently become unemployed but actually game less. If I'm not job hunting in the daytime, I feel guilty. Right now I'm waiting to see what'll be posted to the job boards over the course of the morning and get my applications in.

Am I doing 'unemployed' wrong...?

It's before 9:00am and your posting, your doing it very wrong....

What you should have done is played BF3 until the sun just started to come up, then go to bed, wake up for lunch and repeat.

[Devilstreak]

Silvs said:

That does seem quite a lot!

I had 30+ days on MW2, but I didn't watch the telly. I would play 2 or so hours a day which is 2 days a month. People spent a lot longer in front of the telly. It just doesn't keep a counter. If we looked how much of our lives we sat in front of a electronic box I think we would be staggered!

Wondered where you had been buddy. Stop changing your bloody name!

[KrazyIvan]

Is that the time in battle, or all the time the game is on line (menus, lobby ect ect)?

Not that it changes much, but he (or she) might never shut the game of, so there is a lot of time when they are logged on but not doing anything.

[Silvs]

Devilstreak said:

Wondered where you had been buddy. Stop changing your bloody name!

Oops! How's things buddy? Didn't get to grips with MW3! haven't had my PS3 on in months really!

[Petrolhead95]

I had 120 days play on MW2.

[CypherP]

Farking edit fail.

Hopefully your many hours of gameplay isn't detracting from you being able to find other work.

[Hoofy]

Funk said:

I've also recently become unemployed but actually game less. If I'm not job hunting in the daytime, I feel guilty. Right now I'm waiting to see what'll be posted to the job boards over the course of the morning and get my applications in.

Am I doing 'unemployed' wrong...?

Going a bit off-topic, but you don't have to job hunt 24/7. You could think about businesses to start. IIRC you're in sales which gives you the right mindset for being "get-go".

[Meoricin]

During college I managed to clock 350 days of time logged in to Final Fantasy XI (MMOs are great timesinks!), over the space of just over two years. I think probably about 150 days of that I would have been at the computer at least.

[Vieste]

Years ago on SOF it worked out six months solid play.