Since last year when 2020 got wild so to speak. I started grinding mounts and other things in game. Today I think I’ve been comfortable playing multiple sessions a week up to 15 hours average 3-5 times a week. I think I’m living an unhealthy life style by playing this much.
I need to moderate my time on WoW. I love wow but maybe too much time playing. I want to keep playing. I don’t have too much negative side effects but I think it may be unhealthy for my mental state and I could be living a better life if I moderate my play time better to less time.
What’s a healthy amount of time for someone who wants to no life this game? What should be a cap of how many hours someone should play? Any suggestions on the amount of hours a no lifer should stop? Can anyone with no life comment on when they usually stop playing per hours per day?
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For me I do one or two hours top sessions day. Ideal you don’t want to do more then four hours a day but if you did make 4 hours the limit and don’t game it straight through. It would help to divide it up so you can do other things in between
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I think an addiction becomes unhealthy when it starts interfering with your other activities–or, if it has a noticeably deleterious effect on your mental health.
- Is your living space clean and sanitary?
- Are you neglecting your personal hygiene?
- Are you making time to exercise, or at least to cook healthy meals so that you’re not damaging your overall health?
- You didn’t mention work or school. Are you in school or do you have a job? Is your addiction to gaming/WoW preventing you from doing so?
- Is it harming your ability to maintain relationships with friends and family?
I play a lot of games, maybe too much, but I’m also not a slob, have a job, have a girlfriend, etc. I try not to let my gaming habit interfere with being a healthy and productive human being. If it did, I’d have to reassess my habits.
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You’re asking suggestions on time durations/restrictions while wanting to no-life?
There is no time restriction. Anything you can do to increase your hours per day should be considered optimal. Not doing that is what those people consider casual.
And for a rough correlation/benchmark to what a certain country deems an excessive rate of play (we can all guess which one). Said country as a 5 hours on 3 hours off policy. So expand that to fit a week, and you got 105 hours per week playing WoW as being considered the maximum “condoned” by them.
Dude just do some pushups or situps every time you drop nothing from current content…
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I just play till Im done.
Which since BFA dropped, has been less and less each day.
What country are you talking about? Canada? the US?
The one behind the great firewall.
Anything less than 12 hours a day should be fine assuming you don’t need to work a job. If you don’t play at least 8 hours a day you aren’t a no lifer. But you should still get a minimum of 6 hours of sleep and make sure to eat multiple meals regardless of your commitment.
??? Japan? Because I googled China’s game restrictions and that aint it chief. I can find what countries it aint but not which one it is.
https://www.wowhead.com/news=318590/three-hour-playtime-penalty-for-chinese-players-showing-up-on-the-shadowlands-be
“You have more than 5 hours of online time. You will not be able to gain loot, XP, or complete quests. Your rest state will reset in %d hours of offline time. Please log out to get rest and exercise.”
And since the first warning occurs at 3 hours and suggests 5 hour rest. I can surmise that having 5 hours of play, would probably require 3 hours of full rest (if they want work around 8 hour batches).
Oh this is a game policy SPECIFICALLY for WoW. That explains why my searches didn’t turn it up. Thought you were speaking government restrictions. interesting read.
What do you mean, dude? That’s just the regular Shadowlands gameplay experience.
Haha, ba-dum-tish.
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“Healthy” depends on the person.
When I’m enjoying myself I’ll play 16 hours a day everyday, 8 hours is probably the minimum I’ll play on any given day.
You might want to brush up on your google-fu
wwwDOTgamespotDOTcom/articles/china-govt-steps-up-limits-on-online-gaming/1100-6131845/
Until the end of this year, he will be a bodybuilder. 
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I typically play two hours a day, taking a break from the screen and jogging in place while there are loading screens, and flight paths.
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This is a great idea. I’ve been jogging to the fridge during those times. And then jogging back to the computer with ice cream or some other junk.
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Pretty much this. This is a solid checklist to know if your gaming is in line with a destructive “addiction”.
I play many hours a day, especially between 8-12, almost like clockwork.
I think this only becomes a problem when you actually start cancelling things IRL for the sake of gaming.
My brother had a legit gaming addiction (to WoW) in that he stopped going to work slowly, would eat the bare minimum at his desk, stopped taking calls/messages from friends, and eventually just sort of stopped like communicating with family for a while, like even when I spoke directly to him. His answers were just like 1-2 word responses. It got pretty ugly.
Eventually he did work his way out of it but it was not easy. The memory of those days is what makes me every now and then just stop playing for a few days and spend those 8-12 blocks doing something else, even if it’s just sitting with my wife while she reads before bed.