Imho, gaming feels much better with voluntary breaks put into these long sessions, just like work. I'm not counting toilet breaks. It's nice to nail the span lenght your attention and enjoyment can keep above 80% before you get tired and burned out.
this post was submitted on 16 May 2026
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- How about a cup of coffee? You have been playing for two hours.
- It's four hours in a row! Time to stretch your legs!
- You've been playing for six hours already! Bet your empire will be fine without you for a moment or two.
- You've been playing for eight hours now. You do know you can turn this off, don't you?
- Time flies! It's been ten hours! And there is no time-based achievement to await you, honestly.
- Twelve hours. Seriously? Turn the machine off this minute!
- Twenty-four hours and the game is still running. You've reached the end of line. No more play time warnings. Let's hope you pressed fast forward and left for bed, so I am merely talking to myself right now.
— Anno 1800
Oh I didn't know this goes so deep. I think I only had the 6 hour one a few times. 24hours is crazy.
Maybe it is because I am over 30, but 8 hours gaming sound crazy for me. I do a session of about 4, hours every 2 weeks with friends and that is almost too much. My back and my hand start to hurt and I feel kind of empty after.
If you regularly hit 8 hours you're an addict.
Ah fuck. How do I stop being addicted to work??
Please tell me this was actually in the script somewhere. I could hear his voice perfectly on this meme.
Not the exact number or topics, but yes.
8 hours gaming is a lot. Just to be clear. You need other hobbies.
I game while my 3d printer chugs away next to me. I've got to make sure the print doesn't fail. If the print is going to take 12 hours, I guess I play for 12 hours. I'm very dedicated to my 3d printing hobby.
I have lots of hobbies.
One of them is occasionally spending all day playing video games.
Bite me.
Gaming is a very diverse hobby, especially considering that the captions do not specify type of game.
Would 8 hours of D&D with friends be a lot? Seems like quality time to me.
an 8 hour D&D session is insane... do you hate your DM?
8 hours in a week seems reasonable. 8 hours in one day, for one session? That's too much. I don't even know how you get a table full of players all the schedule that much time. 3-4 hour long sessions sounds reasonable.
I haven't actually done 8, but I have played for 6 hours before. Our games move really slowly, definitely more role-playing than roll-playing, so it's a lot of narrative and story-telling. Doesn't help that the DM is very into D&D enough to run multiple campaigns.
Yeah it'd definitely be a marathon though. But my point was that even if it is too many hours (e.g. for practical reasons), I think it would be unfair to say that it's too many hours in the sense of "you need other hobbies."