How much is too much?

[Culfinrandir]

I'm disabled and i don't work. I spent most of my days playing FF14 until recently when i began to consider i might be playing too much.

So i'm asking, how many hours do you play a week? Is that too much?

It's hard for me to say to be honest. I leave the game running 24/7 usually for reasons I need not go into. I'm in the same situation, disabled & can't work but due to fatigue problems I do have "limits" that are out of my control.

That said, I probably play 3-4hrs a day (usually at night) & a bit longer on the weekend. However, it can vary considerably & if I get into the zone when hunting or something I have done 12hrs+ in one go (meds help). xD Other times I've gone months with maybe less than 30min a day. I think one week I did less than 30 min!

[Truefaith87]

I work 5 days a week, play 5 or so hours a day during the week, weekends usually I am either messing around on other games, doing yard/house work, or cleaning up after animals. So my playtime is something like 20-25 hours a week, if that is any kind of gauge.

[tymora]

As long as your "normal" life isn't affected, all is good.

[Yeol]

since you are interested in knowing how many hours other players spend on the game. My weekly average is 30 hours.

[FunkYeahDragons]

Too much is when you're neglecting other areas of your life to play the game. That amount of time varies with the person and their situation.

However, heavy MMO play got me through the most soul-, time-, and money-sucking career move of my life until I got up the guts to walk out. I still play enough to raid, cap tomes, etc, but I did scale back and start art and gardening again.

[Lulu89]

I work 36-42hrs a week, and still play.. 6 to 12 hrs a day....So at the end of the day it up to what you Injoy doing in your free time. Me, playing FFXIV.

[Kohta]

6 to 7 hours a week, lately. The queue time for Summoner (The job I really want to play) is often half an hour, the dungeons take anywhere from 30-45 minutes, and after that, I have no interest in queue'ing again, the benefit of the dungeon being twice as long because of queue times is uninteresting to me. That 6-7 hours a week is dwindling to getting on, and getting back off out of dread.

[Aivi_lo]

Out of curiosity how can you play but not work? If you can sit and concentrate like that there's nothing stopping you getting a desk based job. You might find your confidence gets a boost from working and meeting people.

I think honestly if you've asked the question you already know the answer.

[Train88]

Out of curiosity how can you play but not work? If you can sit and concentrate like that there's nothing stopping you getting a desk based job. You might find your confidence gets a boost from working and meeting people.

I think honestly if you've asked the question you already know the answer.

I have chronical dissagrements with authority.

[Rakiria]

I think I play ~50 hours a week in online time, but I'm also online when I have work to do and just run ffxiv in the backgroud. Since some weeks i got nothing to do at all and some I have tons of things to do, I can't really say how much I actually play, but probably 30 hours at least.