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How Much Of Your Day Is Dedicated Video Games?
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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Marketing (Score:5, Insightful)
Lack of Great Games (Score:2, Insightful)
There hasn't been a great game in years.
To be honest, I use to play SWG for 8+ hours a day.
Newer games kinda end or loose progression after about 24 hours. I am not up to mindless grinding.
Re:Marketing (Score:4, Insightful)
I play older video games, like Carmageddon II, Flatout II, and others that I can play on older hardware and don't require being connected to just play. I also buy 'em at Half-price Books for $5-$10 each, long after they're not the hot game anymore.
I used to host lan parties, in the days of Doom and Quake and Rise of the Triad, but I don't have time for that anymore.
Re:Marketing (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Lack of Great Games (Score:5, Insightful)
There have been plenty of great games. You've just lost interest in gaming. That tends to happen with any hobby over an extended period of time.
gamify life (Score:3, Insightful)
I gamify life and play it all day long.
I voted, 'I don't play games'. (Score:3, Insightful)
And it's not through some sense of superiority or anything; I wish I could play way more games than I do, just ENOTIME.
So many games are sitting on my shelf awaiting some attention.
Re:Marketing (Score:4, Insightful)
Ya, but it does show there is a lot of boring stiffs here that don't play video games.
I am shocked, too.
I wonder if those 33% have thought about solitair, bejeweled and many other time wasting games you can play on a smart phone (Angry birds, etc).
Or did the responders assume that the question refers to the useful part of the day, not spent waiting in line/on the bus/etc?
Re:Marketing (Score:5, Insightful)
It just shows that the Slashdot readership has grown up, gotten jobs, families and financial commitments. This site doesn't seem to attract young geeks anymore (Guess that niche is fulfilled by Stack Overflow, Reddit, Facebook, etc) while existing members are aging and don't have the time to spend on such hobbies.
It would be very interesting to do a poll on the age brackets.
Re:Missing option... (Score:2, Insightful)
Same here - and the question is badly worded:
"How Much Of Your Day Is Dedicated Video Games?"
Dedicated to playing video games, or what exactly?
I spend more then 6-7 hours a day dedicated to video games, as I'm a game engine developer, yet, I almost never actually play games. So I'd have to pick between the "always logged in" and "I don't play video games" options.
Re:Marketing (Score:2, Insightful)
Don't worry, there's still plenty of boring stiffs who spend their free time sitting on couches and playing with electronic toys created by others, racking up completely meaningless virtual achievements. The rest of us are busy creating real things in the real world and doing things that people who have lives that don't revolve around toys would be interested in.
Re:gamify life (Score:4, Insightful)
Exactly. My life has become too interesting. Games are now boring.
Re:Marketing (Score:5, Insightful)
This "boring stiff" realized a decade ago that all the FPS games I was playing were just more of the same with higher and higher demands of the hardware.
This "boring stiff" realized that newer games took less time to play, often under 20 hours compared to a couple or three weeks mere years earlier.
This "boring stiff" realized that it wasn't my fault I was bored playing games, but a flood of never-ending sameness from the game companies as they consolidated and released a bazillion "me too" titles.
I didn't "grow up." I didn't get "distracted" by work. I didn't shift my focus to "family".
I just got sick of being a rat on the treadmill slaughtering one virtual foe with a mouse click after another.
I quit consuming a diet of mass-media television for much the same reason: the mundane scripted laugh tracks became boring as the writers stopped being creative and taking anything even vaguely resembling a risk.
Re:Marketing (Score:5, Insightful)