Reader Response 8

This is a quote that Dibbell says from Play Money that I found to be shocking...
"The twenty hours a week I was devoting to the game (lizard game) were no big deal compared to the sixty, seventy, and even eighty hours some players put in"
I'm giving this whole online gaming stuff a chance. I actually decided that before I judged this book (because at first it didn't really interest me) that I would join some form of an online game. I joined a website called pogo.com that offers tons of free online games. I started playing a couple of games and tried to figure them out. I actually became somewhat addicted to a couple of the games. The competitive side of me, like Dibbell says, took over me. I wanted nothing more than to beat that game. Just about all week when I have free time I sit down and play the game. I would say I have put in a good 5 hours. I have a lot of other things I have to do, then play a game all day.
That made me think about the fact that these people put in more hours in their gaming then into a full time job, and even overtime. I found the games to be fun, but between 60-80 hours a week. Who has time for that. Do these people work at all? Or do they just make this their full time job? Do these games bring out such a competitive side of these people to succeed that we make them our main focus?
All the power to these people that have the time and make the effort to play these games, they are probably much happier people because of amount of enjoyment they get out of them.
I have decided that online games are for me, but most defiantly not to that extreme.