How much time do you spend a week playing video games?

Yeah, i have the same issue. I play 3-5 hours a week at most. And there are some weeks i don't even play that. Haven't got the time or have other more important stuff to do.

About 4 or 5 hours a week is my norm as well, though Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer is currently skewing that average all out of proportion. I can't stop.

I don't even want to think about what my average week was like back in high school and college, back before I wad married and had kids. My nadir (peak?) was probably the years between the release of Threewave's CTF mod for Quake and the release of Team Fortress 1.

Probably closer to 4-6 hours a week for me. Depends on the time of year, too. More gaming in the winter, less in the summer and fall. Honestly, it's one of the more entertaining ways to shoot the shit with old friends from that don't live nearby anymore. For better or worse, Xbox Live has become poker for the digital age.

Anywhere between 10 and 25 hours a week. I don't play World of Warcraft but I'm on XBox Live fairly regularly.

I probably play about 5-8 hours a week. If I was single or in high school or unemployed I could easily see that going up to 20 or 30. Even now, when my girlfriend is out of town and I'm in the middle of a game I love, I can easily put in a 5 hour session.

The older I get, though, the more it feels like a complete waste of time, especially since I work 50-60 hours a week and have a million things I need to do in my spare time. On the other hand, I don't have cable and don't really watch TV, so I can partly justify it as a tradeoff in time-wasting. I also feel like video games are a better, more 'productive' way of wasting time than TV, since you're actually participating in a story and not watching stupid people yell at each other. But the significant other keeps that in check, because I can't really play when she's home (except on Saturday mornings when she's reading the paper).

My other problem is that once I start I game, I can do little else until I finish everything in it. XBox acheivements have not helped this. Fallout 3 nearly ruined my life, and now I have Mass Effect 2 around the corner. Right now I'm just enjoying the hell out of L4D2.

I don't play on weekdays as often as I used to, so I might accumulate 3-5 hours at the most Mon-Fri, if even that. Sometimes I don't even bother playing until the weekend, when I'll normally hit 6-8 hours total. Dragon Age has definitely netted a bigger investment of time from me (as has Borderlands, especially since my girlfriend and I can play local co-op so we both get playtime), with my longest playthrough being damn near 12 hours one day when I plowed through the Orzammar portion of the storyline along with a bunch of errand sidequests for the Mage's Collective and the assassin's guild.

Probably 15 hours a week on average, less or more depending. I also don't spend any time watching television per week, so there's that.

I play a lot of games, usually about 10 to 15 hours a week in a busy season. Unless something like Dragon Age or WOW at the height of my addiction comes along, when they occupy pretty much all of my free time. In Dragon Age for example I played almost 55 hours in two weeks. With a 60 hour job and a 2 hour commute it was basically every waking moment. There are times though that I may not play at all for weeks.

ETA: Like Brad save for a few series I have given up TV completely. It's now a white noise generator for me.

Also, Dragon Age is such a weird beast these days. Most games aren't even a fourth of its average playthrough length. I'm still working on the first playthrough, I keep getting distracted.

Average about 3 hours a week. However, I'll go several months without playing games to several days of afternoon and weekend marathons.

I do all of my gaming at my apartment, which I am not in anywhere from 3-5 days a week, those days I spend at my girlfriend's place. Considering it's like a mini-vacation when I go there, I generally don't play video games as I'm there to see her. When we move in...well, the average would go up. But to answer the question, I manage to squeeze probably 8 hours, mostly WoW (Wednesday is a dedicated WoW night, which accounts for about 5 of those); more if the girl's out of town.

And if I find myself unemployed? That number skyrockets.

I'm in the same exact boat, although it has really dropped off since I stopped playing any MMOs.

Its feast or famine with me. On days I work I may only play an hour at most but on my days off, I can go 6+ hours. Also, I don't watch much tv either.

I'm really inconsistent. Sometimes I have nothing to do for school and will basically play all day and then there are times where I am swamped and don't play for weeks.

I also do not watch television, and am getting in between 8-10 hours. I don't sleep much (lucky if I can sleep 5 hours a night solid), so I manage to fit gaming it at weird hours. And that is just solo gaming/ games I don't play with the family. If I added those hours in, it would be closer to 15 a week.

I'm the same way. My video game playing is pretty much all at night after everything's done for the day. Even then, I don't really play anything online (anything multiplayer is local. Much prefer playing in the same room with friends), so I'm only extreme about it when a solid single player game comes out. It can get up to 20 or 25 then. Otherwise, I'll find better things to do.

I can typically fit in around an hour of time playing stuff after work, and I play for a few hours in the early morning on weekends. Outside of unwinding after work, I don't really have time to play games during normal human waking hours. All told, I probably spend about eight or nine hours a week playing games.

It's variable based on work and family obligations. Some weeks I get lucky and I can squeeze 8 hours in. Others, on the average, I get 3-4 max.

I go for months without playing anything, then find a game I like and run through it in 15-hour-per-week stretches. That's why Dragon Age has been sitting unloved on the shelf during the holidays.

I play between 5-7 hours a week. I will be playing alot of...Konami Classics on my Xbox 360 next week, as the 2 sets include...Contra, Super Contra, and Rush N' Attack. The only negative with...Konami Classics, is that Konami's collections only have...3 games on each disk. My game playing could rise in 2010 with both...Tatsunoko Vs Capcom and Data East Arcade Classics arriving on the Wii in January. Data East Arcade Classics on the other hand will have...15 games.

6-9 a week is the norm since i started getting more hours at work and got a dog, but if i have the time, its easily pumped up to 10-14.

Right now I play about 48 hours a week. Thats only because i play Ultima Online all day at work. Other then that i might go an hour or 2 of Xbox a night. Usually more if its a new game.

Roughly 15 hours a week, give or take. When we're not busy doing other things (socializing, sightseeing, fucking) the wife and I are content to spend our evenings quietly at home in the living room, where the TV is almost always on (often just as background material) and we almost always have our own laptops on - she surfing and socializing, me surfing and playing games.

This is really tough. I just started raiding again this week, and I can see that I am going to buy a ton of games I want to play, the let them stack up until I take a break from WoW.

I probably play games 25 or so hours a week, depending on what's going on during the weekend. If I have no plans, and the girlfriend doesn't make me go do something with her, I'm more than happy to put in 15 hours gaming on a Saturday.

It depends. It spikes up when I buy a new game, or get into a very deep game. Sometimes it can be zero hours a week, sometimes 72. Depends on my free time and my disposition.

4-6 hours. I've got 2 young kids now, so I don't play when they are awake and getting enough sleep for myself is an issue. So I'll slip in an hour here or there.

Prior to the kids, I was in the 15-20 hour a week camp. I'd play WoW 2-3 hours on week nights and 3-5 hours on sat & sun. I didn't really watch much TV, but I'd slip in other console games around WoW. Ended up with 3 lvl 70s and a few others around lvl 30-50. The lvl 70s had around 15 days game time logged up on each.

Some weeks I'll play about 6-8 hours, and there's other weeks like this week, where I don't play anything. I've had Resistance: Fall Of Man sitting there for quite a few months and I'm barely going to start playing it.

Regularly I'll spend maybe 5 hours a week playing a game (a little time shooting people in multiplayer to unwind), unless it just sucks me in and I have to keep going. Borderlands, for example, is currently eating away my social life. Right when I think I can take a break, I pick up a gun that shoots electricity, and I'm like "Fuck, let's see what this does to the midget brigade!"

Before my 350 got the RRoD I would say 3 hours a week and 5 at the most. But since that little red light showed up and I've been without it I've found myself not missing video games all that much, am I the only one whose had this problem with the same result.

Probably 15-25 hrs a week. Primarily because I have 3 day weekends & also 2 TVs in my entertainment room -so if I'm watching TV (and it's not a hardcore drama that I have to really pay attention to) I'll usually be playing some type of sports game w. the sound off while watching TV. If I didn't have the two tvs I'd probably play less.

Like Alex said its feast or famine. I don't play games throughout the year since I'm a bit picky, and time issues. Since MW2, i've probably been playing 3-4 hrs a week. I'll usually beat a game quite slowly, but with some games, like Fallout 3 and Bioshock, I'll play for hours a day. I definetely neglected things back then. I'm sure Dragons Age or Demons Souls would do the same. I'm waiting on Demons Souls, unfortunately its not out here yet. Tons of games are short now, of course from time to time there are some RPGs that take tens of hours to complete, but most games can be beaten in the length of 2 - 3 movies.

Probably 15-20 hours. I don't really watch much TV though, I game instead.Wow, that still seems like a lot of time to spend doing that.

About 10-15 hours a week. I tend to do most of my gaming in the morning before I go to work, while my wife's not home, and then maybe an hour after I get home, which tends to be a little late.

And count me in with the "I don't watch much TV" crowd, especially since I got rid of cable.

I'm probably at the 10-15 hour range as well, but I'm also in the unusual circumstance where I can play at work. Sports games tend to be the biggest time-sink for me, but when there's a good multiplayer game out I might play three or four hours a night for months (I miss you, TF2). And when I was at the height of my WoW playing three or four years ago, I didn't touch my 360 for about six months. So, I can't do both.

I play games a lot more often at the end of the year when all the huge titles come out. I've probably been playing 15-25 hours per week or so the last few months. I would say that time will go down once the new year kicks in, but too many games have been delayed into the beginning of the year for that to happen. Mass Effect 2 alone will soak up a lot of my time.

An hour a week is a lot for me, though sometimes with a new game and free time I'll play three or four hours.

It will vary per week and depening on whats 'out there' but 5 hrs a week if its dead; 30 + if its a game I am hot for

Seriously, you'll start out a Borderlands session all like, "Shoot, I got 3-4 hours to kill...no worries."

But you were wrong.

Oh so wrong.