How many hours do you play?
 

There have always been whales but in the past way back when these dysfunctonal souls stood out more and were few and far inbetween. It was only when games got big enough audiences that these players could band together and dominate end-game content that mere mortals had to push their limits to compete. Now that level of playtime is more or less normalized in most MMO games.

In a way p99 is different. Outside of /list and fresh in general you don’t benefit significantly from long sessions. Rather it’s the ability to drop your baby in the sink or log on at 4 am and wake up the wife to kill golems in CT. It more or less boils down to the same problem though, players forsake their lives doing it.

But shit man, people these days have massive screen times and being on p99 ain’t worse than some normie doomscrolling on instagram for 7 hours a day.

I try to break the bad habit but it’s hard. Fortunately gaming had lost its lustre, I understand my dad now how he’d say real life was better.

Wait? What are we talking about and aren’t you the dweeb that farmed gnoll scrolls for ages?

I'd say if you're single, no kids, and you handle responsibilities and are happy, then game away, as many hours as you want.. but if you have stuff you need to be doing- Work, relationships, kids, taking care of your health, then you need to reassess. i'm with you though, if you compare gaming vs scrolling social media and binge watching tv for hours, i'd say gaming has more benefits.. You're often still being social, and you're using your brain.

Honestly though, it's hard to disconnect from these vices in America. You work all day, and these vices are a way to remove yourself from that daily grind and get a break. I stayed in the philippines for 2 months this year. And for the first time in ages, i never felt the pull to watch netflix, or play games. i was relaxing, exploring, learning the culture, learning the language, and reading books. Best 2 months in my life. When i came back to work and the grind, i immediately was playing games in my downtime again.

just look at the current wow world first race

dem boys be goin ham

Sadgebert joins the chat, ha.

Nah, I bought most of my scrolls. Partly from the proceeds of a manastone sale, I most definitely legitimately camped for 50 hours without any assistance, human or otherwise.

I was easily doing 6 hour evenings on WoW before TBC landed. Like EQ (for me), the game pulled you in but I logged in as much for the guild interaction, putting some fun pvp teams together for battlegrounds/world pvp at Tarren Mill... and yeah I'd rather be doing that than playing EQ2 that was so poorly optimized my PC would lock up :D

To be in my 20s again would be so good :)

You stayed up for 50 hours straight to get a manastone?

yeah...farming consumables for vanilla naxx was like having a 2nd job

Zero these days :/

What else were these people doing for the rest of the day, mustve been campin something pretty nice in eq