How are you doing this? More importantly, if you are a student or someone with a fulltime day job... HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS? D:

I am a full time audio engineer and producer, I record/mix/produce a lot of bands and my client list is always full.

I have clocked in 126 hours in Skyrim since 11/11/11... and that is a LOT for me. I mean, it may not seem like much to most here but even at 126 hours, I found that I had to slack/procrastinate to achieve that much amount of Skyrim. I definitely messed a few priorities here and there, fortunately when it was finally time for me to catch up on my work, I catch up fast.

I am managing my clients well so far - definitely not as smooth as expected (because, as I said, I had to slack a little just to play the game - the time had to come from somewhere ) - but what really puzzles me is people who's clocked in in insane amounts of hours while having other full time commitments and responsibilities at the same time...

How are you guys doing it? D:

Well, being unemployed helps a lot but it's not only that, it's the huge amounts of fun I have playing that keeps me in after 350 hours. When I finish 3 playthroughs of the main archetypes I'll take a break (as in moving to other games) and then I'll be back for the expansion(s?) and a good selection of player made mods, probably sometime this fall.

I am interested in knowing how the ones who are employed/are studying are managing to play this much Skyrim...

I live on government money and have no friends...

Just kidding and tbh I don't know. I got to school do my work and then play. My fast metabolism keeps me from getting fa t(that's luck) and I'm a pretty solitary person so I don't see my friends very often. I also spend lots of time writing and drawing. Wow, I really don't know. The time just piled on after awhile.

For me it's all about routine. i'm a student, and I do all my work on the morning and the early afternoon. Then I come back home from the University and feel good that I've done all the work that I've done earlier that day, and allow myself the joy of spending the night in TES. on a side note, I'm Norwegian, and we have like the worst work ethic in Europe. I'm not joking. it blows. I'm sure that plays a part somewhere in there.

I work 40 to 50 hours a week and do part time school. How do I do it? Disappointed spouse and I'm leaving it at that...

I have a full time job and typically work 50+ hours a week, and I currently have 300+ hours clocked in on Skyrim.

I manage this by having no social life and no significant other, and by video gaming being my #1 hobby. I'd have more time logged in but I intentionally took a break from Skyrim so I would have time away from it so when the Creation Kit came out I wasn't feeling burnt out or anything. Now it's back to playing along with some modding.

Unemployment and not being in college and constant depression and lonliness help with getting that much into a game...well...In my case it is.

I work around 50 hours a week and I'm scratching on the 300 hours mark right now. How do I do that? Well, my job comes with nightshift and work on weekends, most of my friends and my girlfriend don't or can't do that. If I have free time I won't see many people anyway, so why not playing Skyrim? Jogging is fun but it's damn cold right now and I'm outside during work anyway.

Example: Right now (~ 10 AM) I have nothing to do, everybody I know is still working and I have to start with it at 5 PM. Hail to the internet.

It's easy

I leave home at about 6:15 each morning, come back at about 17:15, 17:30. Cook, do some small house work.. Go running three times a week for about half an hour. So I'm free at around 18:30 or 19:00 then drop down behind my computer and play. Go to bed at 22 or 23:00, repeat next day.

Then on saturdays wake up at 12:00 clean, buy groceries do some random stuff, get back by 15:00 start playing, then get something to eat, start playing go hang out with friends and sunday is my do nothing day. That's easily 30+ hours a week...

Of course this only works when it's still a great deal of fun and I prefer doing this to going to the movies or getting dinner. Not having a girlfriend definitely helps. Maybe I should thank my ex for being a total [censored].

You're talking about an average of approximately four hours a day. To me, that is not excessive. Not for a hobby one dearly loves.

Also, you have to take into account that some of us have been waiting patiently for this game to come out for five years. Once it came out many of us were naturally going to go on a binge. Come back in a year and those of us still playing Skyrim will most likely be playing far fewer hours.

In my case, my partner also games. So playing Skyrim is actually a social activity for us. It's what brought us together (we met on these forums) and it's one of the things that keeps us together. Instead of going to restaurants or movies like normal people we play video games, side by side, during our free time. The hours I play Skyrim are hours I spend with the person I love.

I'm not sure how many total hours I've clocked so far, but it's over 400. I work a full-time job and have a child who's just entered 1st grade this year. It's challenging for me because my girl has nightmares occasionally, and I'm reluctant to introduce her into the world of TES until she's maybe about 10 years old. She gets freaked out by the Wizard of Oz fer cryin' out loud! Getting woken up in the middle of the night with a thousand questions because your child has had a nightmare gets old after awhile, and I imagine this would only compound if she were to view me crawling thru some dungeon with a character.

That being said, it's challenging for me to find time to game, but it helps that she's often at her dad's place (we're seperated) or staying at a sleepover at one of her friend's houses. I dont' have much of a social life like I used to, and am also a former drug addict. Gaming actually helps me stay away from that lifestyle.

But to the OP: it's possible. Consider yourself lucky you actually have a life and don't have time to game! Sometimes I wish I had more of a life outside of work and home.

I have a full time job with plenty of overtime and a family with two little kids. I bought Oblivion in November 2011. Since then, I managed to get in about 50 hours of playtime, leaving 0 hours for Morrowind. So I'm with you there. But if I didn't work on my gaming site as a hobby, I could see that number be over 100 easily at the expense of sleep.

Work part time from home, children at university, don't watch tv, can't afford to go out much.

I have a job and I'm a full time student at college yet I still find the time. I clocked over 300 somehow

I'm 18 and work at walmart. i make just enough money to support my parents. and if we need more i take more shifts. and i save up money to buy games and other things. also over 500 hours clocked.

Full time student with a gf + social life here. 370+ hours logged.

I do this by occasionally skipping unimportant classes and being incredibly good at taking tests and retaining information. Usually involves massive cram sessions though. Like staying up all night the day before a test. I work my best under pressure so that is where I force myself to be. 2 days left to do two 8-10 page research papers, 3 small late HWs and study for a final? FML but I can do it.

It just requires you making a tradeoff. Plus winter break helped me log quite a few hours when there was no surf.

Wow some people are really dedicated to TES games, i dont even know how you could possibly know how many hours you've clocked, do you time yourself and add it up?

Archmage12: Steam shows the amount of hours you've played a game in the "detailed" view on the Library page.

Archmage12: I'd been looking for a game like The Elder Scrolls for YEARS before I finally found it. When I did, I was hooked! Took time off from work when I got Oblivion and Skyrim.

Oh, if you're a console player, look under your gamesave info. It should say how many hours you've put into the game so far.

It shows how many hours you've played on each character file.

I workful time but have weekends off, so all day staurday whilst my gf is at work i play! and most evenings before she gets home from work. also i work in a school, so its half term for me this week, which will mean mainly playin skyrim!
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2. Semi-retired
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this is the OP question- how are we logging in so many hours? Of the considerable area a question could have addressed- by those with experience in the new game, the OP was wondering how we logged in the hours?

I'm retired. I have 486 hours. That's unimportant. What is important; are there any trends of opinion beginning to show in persons who have played Skyrim over certain hour thresholds? Are they bored? Do they compare the game favorably to other Elder Scrolls games?

Never mind 300+ hours, I've seen people claiming 1,000+ hours which would have required 16 hour days, EVERY day, since release day. I've not wanted to call these people liars, but Jesus I can't even begin to get my head round how that's possible without insanity at the very least.