Hundreds of Games?

For a teacher you don't appear to have a huge amount of common sense.  Do you take everything you read literally?  

I've been thinking EXACTLY the same thing about those two subjects 

Even though I have a lot of spare time and have played Demigod almost every day since release, I still don't have more than 145 games played.

Although you can become a pro in some video games, it isn't possible in demigod so please stop using that term.

Anyway, a big thanks to all the players playing a lot, you help keep the game going

I play 2-4 games daily and 5-20 on a saturday or sunday.
I think i fit in the catagory Basment-Dweller.

That's my recipe for getting 750+ games.

Oh: And im not a Pro, but if we dont call ppl Pro we have to call everyone else N00b .

Someone who is very good at a game is called a Pro.

I dont care what its outside definition is. When you "own" someone do you literally "own" them? No. If you own someone it actualyl means you have taken over their computer (hacked/cracked) it.

@BadDaddy8: Hm, maybe you are a teacher, but i have some doubts that you teach math or sociology!?

Approximately - 3 months, playing 3 hours per day, a game takes 30 min - should give >500 games finally!?


Well, permanently playing 3 hours per day seems to be a lot, but when i'm right in the northern hemisphere the average TV consumption per day is even bigger, so if you personally compensate it with (not) watching TV, then it's well imaginable that players have several hundreds of games without disregarding real life duties.
Of course, there is thin borderline between being an ambitious gamer and becoming morbidly addicted to PC games...

Generally such questions better would fit into a World of Warcraft forum maybe, i guess we would get answers making us believe that the current financial/economical crisis isn't big enough...




By the way, i can understand that the expression 'pro' is irritating. But players, paid to populate the (online) multiplayer to offer some minimum presence/fun there - they are not 'pros' in gaming world, they are rather called... 'bitch players'!?
And from this perspective it's evident that no game developer or publisher spends money to for online games labelled with 'bitches only', that would make no sense if they satisfy each other's play instincts while you as regular costumer can't participate.

Wow its taken me 4 months to get 150 games. Thats some impressive playing at your end ^^

It has taken me since release to get close to 500 games... I too wonder how some people have enough time to get even 200 games in a few months. I would guess mostly college students, as I used to game a TON in college (probably spent 4 hours a day playing Guild Wars when that was first released) and too a slightly lesser degree in grad. school. Unfortunately the job and the taking care of a wife in med. school take up most of my time now.

For someone being critcal, you aren't making a lot of sense. Be specific. What am I reading literally? "Pros"? Yeah I am, that's the whole point. Words have meanings. Don't apply them where they don't fit. If you walked around calling yourself a "pro" because you play beer-league softball, people would laugh in your face.

I can do the math. That wasn't the question. The question was- Who has 3 hours a day for video games? It is a social question. I know people do, I used to in college as well. I'm just curious if that is the case or its just guys who don't have wives/ girlfriends or jobs...

Ben Franklin often said the perfect day was 8 hours of work, 8 hours of play, and 8 hours of sleep.  Is it so impossible that 3 of those 8 hours of play could be spent on Demigod?  I see nothing wrong with that many Demigod games, and it doesn't indicate anything about the lack of balance in a person's lifestyle. 

People addicted to MMOs these days dedicate far more hours than even the most hardcore Demigod players.

uhh last time i checked the meaning of words can be changed and new words can be invented or the connotation can change and in the case of VIDEO GAMES not sports pro tends to be associated with someone who has achieved an exceptional skill level in the game

I have nowhere near to 150 games on demigod, and I have had it pretty much since release. I enjoy Demigod but I als enjoy other games, and I would say I spend around 4 hours a day on my PC not working (except mon and thurs where 1 hour is more likely) I record any TV shows I want to watch and ignoring 30 mins of news while im having breakfast I only really watch 3-4 hours of tv a week (nearly all recorded). I spend the rest of my time reading, drawing, sleeping, working or out. And I'm that kind of disgusting eater who would much rather be doing something at the same time.

Of all the people I know well I would say I play games the most, but I play a variety of games (I love DG but cant play more than 2 games in a row)

I'm a college student, but I live at home. I commute, which is a good thirty minutes each way. I go to parties on weekends, and hang out with my friends at least three times during the week. Over winter I'll be working 40 hours a week interning for the Department of Defense. And do you know what? I still have tons of time to do whatever I want, some of which I dump into playing Demigod online.

It's not really a question of "who has enough time ot play Demigod" as "who has enough time to do stuff they like". I don't like watching TV, so I don't. I wake up at 6 and go to school, get home at 5. Spend 5-6:30 eating dinner and talking with my parents. Then maybe I hang out with a friend/girlfriend or do homework or look up bands or do whatever research I want. Then around 8 or 9 I'll play Demigod, till whenever I feel like falling asleep, which is usually midnight. From Friday to Saturday I go to LAN parties at my friends house. Then the rest of Saturday is spent on "free time". Then Sunday on homework, and whatever free time I get then is mine too.

It's funny when people ask me how I have time for what I do. The best counter is "Why don't you?" Spending time on TV and other such things is just as "wasteful", if you'd like to make that argument, as playing an online game, such as Demigod. Time management. That's really it.

By the way, I've only been playing online for exactly a week and I have 30 games. x20 weeks (5 months, April-September) = 600 games.

Really good point there

Wow. People get really defensive of their lifestyles. It was just a frickin' question. If you look, I have several threads on this forum and clearly play a fair amount of the game.

Some of you are missing the point: I played 2-4 games EVERYNIGHT for about three months and now I (unfortunately) only get to play 4-6 games on the weekend. I feel like I have played quite a bit, yet I only have about 150 games. So the question was, how exactly does someone play 5-6 TIMES that in the same span (I was playing DG within a month of its release). I just dropped 1200 bucks on a new i7. I take my videogames seriously. I was just curious how people find time to play 5-6 times as much as I do, when I feel like I play quite a bit.

This is just dumb. I don't think you understand much about how words change or why. I teach English. You're probably starting an argument here that you're not going to win.

It's not just sports; it's everything. Prostitutes are "pros." I do a fair amount of carpentry, but my friend does it for a living; he is a pro, I am not. I'm not saying you can't decide that is what you want to refer to yourself, you can call yourself whatever you want. I'm just saying you sound dumb doing it.

I agree completely. Once again, the point wasn't to criticize anyone's lifestyle (except people who want to call themselves "pro" for getting really good at something they DON'T do for a living) but to see what kind of demographic gets to that many games played, and how they did it. I'm just kind of amazed.

Magic.

Honestly, what exactly is it that you're looking for, here?  The people with more games played aren't using some mystical power to bend time so obviously, they're spending more of their ~7 hours of non-work/school/sleep time playing the game.  Many people don't have children.  Many people like playing online with friends.  Many people don't sleep a full 8 hours.

Let's say each game lasts a half-hour (though I'd wager a large portion of online games last significantly less than that).  It would take about 10 days played to hit 500 games.  I'm sure there are a probably a million WoW players who would think that less than impressive in a 7-8 month span.

2-4 games a day, we'll round that to 3 games. 3 months... 3*30 == 90... * 3 == 270.. That is larger than 150 for sure.

Sure enough, look at your games list andddd http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/games/player/62793/page/13

256 games.

You're probably partially thrown off due to the stat reset (though, then again, I'm at 550 after reset soooo). But it does look like you play a little more than you might think ^^;

Now for me, I'm a pseudo-insomniac (wouldn't say clinical, because I'm not) in that sometimes I get in stages where for weeks at a time I will get 2-3 hours of sleep a night. Then I typically get like 10 hours a night then I settle into about 6 hours a night. This means that when I don't sleep I have a crapload of extra time to 'waste'. Which is, but of course, spent on Demigod (or House, or LOST, or other video games)

I have skool, I work roughly 20-24 hours a week, and I'm even occasionally :gasp: social. For me, most the time I play is after 9 or 10 PM, which is when a lot of other people are sleeping. So yeah, the major answer is that a lot of people simply don't sleep.

         I work, raise a kid as a single parent, take care of an old house I just bought, have a social life and friends.  Somehow since the release of Demigod I've played 500 games plus 2-300 from before reset, played through Fallout 3 and Stalker, read 3-5 books a week, watched quite a few series (I tend to wait until a season comes out on netflix/dvd and then watch a whole season at once) and took a long vacation this summer.  It's amazing how much free time you have when you don't need much sleep and manage your time.  Oh, and quite a few of those early games were pantheon games that last maybe 5-15 minutes. Dragon Age has also eaten into my Demigod time the last few weeks.

Thanks for all the intimidation ,and the ad hominem fallacies next time try to use more logos and expand on your ethos/authority like what grade you teach or your english. I could say that i teach english if i taught my little cousin how to spell so...

I might not understand why or how words change, but they change and from my personal experience the word pro in video game communities (which you cannot "play" for a living testers and tournaments being the exception but still not a full time profession  imo) has come to mean someone who has achieved an exceptional skill level so why does this matter so much if the community wants to attatch meaning to a word and that meaning is agreed upon whats the problem how do you sound stupid when everyone knows what you mean and agress with the method that you are using to express it

I'm saying you don't sound dumb if everyone agrees with that definition.

Just curious, OP - is this post in direct respose to someone busting your chops in a game for not being a "pro"?  Such terms are idiotic.  Along with "premade."  But these terms are sometimes used in Demigod.  Anyway, I wouldn't pay it much attention.  Just keep in mind you are playing with a wide variety of ages and maturity levels. 

I personally am married and still manage to get a few hours a day in (give or take).  It all depends on schedule.  For instance, I typically am home earlier than mywife.  This often gives me a chance to spend some time playing video games.  I also tend to require less sleep.  So, I may very well be awake into the wee hours of the morning goofing off.

I gotta agree with the OP. There are no Pros in DG, there is no professional league and no one gets paid to win tournaments, perhaps the odd bit of prize money for the one tournament that has been run so far.

Pros are used in Videogaming in the completely correct sense in the big games. Starcraft, CounterStrike, Quake, World of Warcraft all have professional leagues and therefore have Pro's.

The meaning of the word has not changed in videogaming. Most players use it to refer to a player whose skill is so high they get paid to play in a competive environment. Where there is no league for a game there are no Pro players, just players of higher skill. Just because people use the word wrong way does not make it right, there was a time when everyone thought the world was flat.

Ya and if you call someone a fag it HAS to mean they're gay and not just an annoying biker.  I heard words never change or take on multiple meanings.  C/d?

(man, it's almost like some people have already tried making this point on tv)

Edit:  Thought I'd elaborate a little bit further in case you needed examples or somethin crazy like that.  If I say "I owned you", are you a slave?  Are you a piece of property I acquired?  Do I control all of your assets and make decisions for you?  No?  Yet I can be correct in saying "I owned you" ... weird.

When I tell someone they're a "bitch" .. am I saying they're literally a female dog?  How did we get from bitch meaning 'a female canine animal, especially a dog' to 'a lewd woman' ?  According to good ol' English language historian Geoffrey Hughes, "the early applications were to a promiscuous or sensual woman, a metaphorical extension of the behavior of a bitch in heat."

OH METAPHORICAL EXTENSION!!  I knew I've read about that kinda thing.  So.. when we call someone a 'pro' .. it doesn't necessarily mean they are indeed professional and make money at doing it.. they merely have the other characteristics of a pro.  And here I thought this was something original.

BadDaddy88: your thread seems pointless. It is very doubtful that you actually do not know how someone could play that many games and thus you probably only want to troll the people who do play the game a lot by questioning their lifestyle for instance.

I hope this one gets locked soon.