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Community Question: Average Multiplayer Play Time
There are many different types of FPS multiplayer modes out there - some take just a few minutes for a round to finish, while others can last hours (I'm looking at you, 64 player mp_marketgarden!). What's really interesting to us this week is to know how much time you actually spend playing on average when you sit down for some multiplayer action. Are your sessions 30 minutes? Several hours? We must know!
So, here's this week's question:
When playing a multiplayer title, how long do you usually play for per gaming session?
Please cast your in this week's Community Question poll. As a bonus question, are there any factors that make you play longer or less (such as clanmates being along for the ride or double XP weekends going on)? If so, please let us know in your replies.
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I am more likely to play for hours on console than I am on PC though, if that helps at all. Something about dossing on the sofa with only a few buttons to press instead of having to remember what buttons I bound everything to and having to tweak settings because my PC is utter pants just appeals to me more.
Also if I haven't played in so long that I can't remember any of the buttons, people coming in and going "What are you doing, you need to press X/Y/RT/whatever to do that!" is likely to cause immediate cessation of any gaming urges I may have had (*cough*digibob/RR2*cough*)
60-90 btw
So in the beginning - it could be 3 hours, assuming ofcourse theres plenty of depth.
For SC2 which I only started learning to play online since xmas, I can go back to back to back 40 minute games quite easily. For ETQW, in the beginning - 2 full campaigns back to back were quite easy to do, this however decreased to 1 campaign, and later on 1 map.
When the dust has settled and theres no learning or experimenting with the game, if its a brilliant game 60 to 90 minutes.
Voip in-game whether it be team or fireteam voip, as well as ventrillo, was an easy convenient way for these people to socialise during the week. As long as they knew that was available to them, they would consistently "play the game" for extended periods.
A question:Why SplashDamage asks this kind question?
Are They working on game speed design or ?
But still,this kind question :O
It is same as I can ask "How much time you spend on watching my reply?"
For round times, I'd prefer to play like in RtCW -where maps had default time ranging 8-15 minutes AND also a possibility for server admins to set whatever round time they want per map.
With "reasonably" short round times you can get some multi round/map carnage even if you only have an hour to spend before dinner.
However if the question is about session times rather than round times, then I'd say I play more than an hour per session.
For incitament to play longer sessions, I'd say clanmates around and well admined servers (for which the server tools to do that has been in general sadly reduced in newer games).