How long is "a break" to you?

[RosaBlanche]

took a 8 months break in 2014, when i left people were paying gils for primals HM wins, when i returned i had a lot of new contents one shot like gold saucer, housing, hunts, primals ex, and more, so basically my long break gave me interest in a game i was bored with.

[Khalithar]

It's going to sound vague, but a break to me is pretty much until I feel like playing again. Sometimes it's only a few days, sometimes it's never.

[Ryios]

A break to me, is however long it takes for me to feel recovered, or to miss what I'm taking a break from and want to end the break. I don't really give times on my breaks unless I'm given a time limit (like at a job). But for the most part, if I say I'm taking a break, it basically means I'm gone and I'll come back when I feel like it, if ever.

[SgtPepperUK]

However, the long delay of 3.1 has now sparked concerns that future patches will also be thinner.

As far as I know 3.1 should the exception in this regard as the dev team took some time off after HW (and well deserved, they're certainly one of the harder working teams in the MMO space). I also think a bit of time has been allowed between 3.0 and 3.1 to give people time to do stuff. Put it this way, some of us went from all classes (DoW, DoM, DoH and DoL) capped to needing 10 more levels on 20+ classes and having 3 new classes. I'm nowhere near capping all classes yet, only got to almost 10 of them done so far

[adn]

To me? A break is any period of time while I'm not playing the game but am willing to pick it up again someday.

e.g. I took a break from 2.1 to 2.55. I'm currently on break from WoW but I might play it again sometime. I'm NOT on break from Wildstar because I'm never touching that disaster again after Carbine's second failed launch.

[Miitan]

A month. Anything longer is extended leave.

[karateorangutang]

In the general sense, a month is a good amount of time to take off of a game. If you taking longer then your basically giving up all but the closest relationships you've made on the game. Most people will have moved on to make new groups or invite others to replace you at that point unless you keep really close contact or are friends with people IRL.

[saber_alter]

As long as i need. may be a day, may be a month or so with infrequent log-ins to see how things are going.

[AlphaFox]

It depends on how strong a pull the game has, for me having zero interest in rerunning the dungeons or PvP for tomes, not even going to bash my head in to Alex Savage, I am content. Only reason I am still logging in daily for Gold Saucer and retainers is cus I forgot to turn off the auto-sub this month. For me a break is a month or so, just discovered a PS2 game called Soul Nomad and currently enjoying SkyForge and looking towards a few others that may be coming out soon. I guess for FCs the inactive part isn't really an issue as I would assume at least one person plays, for private housing perhaps they should give a bit more of an extension, but that's just me.

[Morningstar1337]

It depends on how strong a pull the game has, for me having zero interest in rerunning the dungeons or PvP for tomes, not even going to bash my head in to Alex Savage, I am content. Only reason I am still logging in daily for Gold Saucer and retainers is cus I forgot to turn off the auto-sub this month. For me a break is a month or so, just discovered a PS2 game called Soul Nomad and currently enjoying SkyForge and looking towards a few others that may be coming out soon. I guess for FCs the inactive part isn't really an issue as I would assume at least one person plays, for private housing perhaps they should give a bit more of an extension, but that's just me.

I would suggest checking out the other games by that games publisher as well...

As for me, maybe a week or two at most would be a big enough break.