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The Daily Grind: Do you take time off work to play games?

by Jef Reahard on Feb 23rd 2012 8:00AM

Fantasy, Horror, Culture, Launches, MMO Industry, Opinion, Guild Wars 2, The Daily Grind, The Secret World, TERA

Holy shitaki mushrooms! There are a lot of cool MMOs coming out this year! If 2011 was kind of a downer for new AAA titles, 2012 is more than making up for it with the likes of Guild Wars 2, The Secret World, and TERA (at least two of which will release within a month of one another).

The only problem is finding enough time in the day to play all these gems (not to mention making time to keep up with old favorites). Heck, I'm even contemplating a brief vacation of sorts, the better to have some uninterrupted sessions with all these new games.

What about you, dear readers? Have you ever taken time off from work for an MMO?

Every morning, the Massively bloggers probe the minds of their readers with deep, thought-provoking questions about that most serious of topics: massively online gaming. We crave your opinions, so grab your caffeinated beverage of choice and chime in on today's Daily Grind!

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When WoW: The Burning Crusade launched I used 1 week of paid vacation so that I could rush to the new level cap with my buddies. If I had someone now that could take up the slack for me, I would have taken time off for the SW:TOR launch. I am glad I didn't use it for SW:TOR since even with casual play, I hit 50 in about 3 weeks.

These days it would have to be a pretty big deal of a launch to justify taking time off but I totally will if I think it's a worthwhile game. Like if I had planned ahead I would take a couple days off to play Mass Effect 3.

Yup. I took every expansion launch day in Everquest from Kunark to Planes of Power off work. I've taken most of the Friday/Mondays surrounding City of Heroes' double xp weekends too. Q XP weekends in STO I've taken off for as well. I'd do it again too. Doing so doesn't prevent me from taking my six weeks of vacation time (yeah, I'm not a typical American. I value my vacation days and actually use all of them)

I don't think I'll do that, but It's more like I can't, as a small business owner my constant presence is required to keep my company running on work hours, if something come out then I'll be more likely to take time off play to work :D

I work about 30 hours from home at a job that can, at times, have a lot of downtime so finding time to play games is never an issue. I actually wish I went to work sometimes so I could appreciate my games more... but then a new release comes out and I love it.

I usually like to think "No I wouldn't! I can't take a day off from work because maybe someone will need me to do something important", however this is usually not the case. But if GW2 were to magically plop itself down on my desk right now I might seriously consider it.

Heh, yes. I have done some serious schedule twisting and appointment-cancelling to accommodate gaming this year.

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