How much is too much?

[Lunavi]

I am close to always online to help guildies as most work I do is from home and is very flexible. But the time I play is likely about 6 hours per day on weekdays and a little bit less on weekend as I often have other things then.

[OliviaJ]

Wife, kids, work...all interfere with my precious gaming time. I get about 15-20 per week in. That number could go down. If I had nothing else to do it could easily be 30-40 as long as it still felt fun.

I've often wondered what I would do if something happened to me and I was bedridden for weeks/months on end and honestly that time would be spent in FFXIV. Wouldn't worry about it at all OP. I would worry more if you were playing a game that had zero social interaction. At that point you would be a hermit.

[Kurogaea]

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?

I play at least 1-2 hours a day as of now. About 5 months ago I'd play to about 6-8 hours a day since I was unemployed (right now I'm a student and unemployed). Playing the game as long as I was would be considered too much depending on my lifestyle, since I wasn't doing anything when I had the ability to do so, but I had free time to do things, only that I chose to play FFXIV for those periods. If you feel as if your playing too much then try taking a break for about 2 days each, or one day if you want. Play for less time, perhaps an hour or so.

Anyways the only reason I can assume your playing too much is if you have an MMO addiction, it wouldn't be strange or anything, just means you like the game. If its something along the lines of doing mostly nothing in 14 being bored then it could be burn out or a natural response to grinding. Lots of reasons to feel that way honestly. Why is it bothering you now if you don't mind me asking?

[AlphaFox]

Kinda lost my interest so its like 5-10hrs a week now at best. When I was super into the game, once I got off work/had a day off would be like 40+ a week

[Powe]

Well don't know but I've been playing since January 7 of 2015 and only gotten like 104 days in playtime soooo

[Nightroad]

I live in Eorzea and only log into real life as i need to.

[Inori-Yuzuriha]

I play like 12+ hours a day

[Train88]

I'll be honest now. I have this conspiracy theory.

I was trying very hard to gear my healer in Weeping City. Got 1 or 2 at first then i tried at least a dozen full run and not one single piece of healing even dropped. Yesterday, i logged on, tried again, same and logged off. Didn't touch it for the rest of the day. I was going to do the same today, thing is after logging maybe 1 hour yesterday, i ran weeping city today and 3 healing parts dropped. Got 2 3rd one i had.

Now i do fortune telling and i have a unique perspective on coincidences. Also, i just so happen to have a college degree in computer programming and i know just how random computers really are.

Now i'm trying to determine what cap there could be in hours so i don't go over it.

I know it's crazy. Crazy is what gets me through the day sometimes.

[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.