22% Of Gamers Considered “Ultra Gamers

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1. Flame sucks

   December 22nd, 2006 at 6:51 pm

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   I guess I’m an Ultra Gamer

2. Anuban

   December 22nd, 2006 at 6:58 pm

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   I used to be one of those … now I spend less than 3 hours a week on my 360. Funny thing is the dropoff didn’t occur until after I got Gears and was severely disappointed. Since then I have not been able to get back into the swing of gaming … it is really strange … I even bought R6V to see if that would get back into playing at least 10 hours a week like I used to but even that has failed. Maybe when I get Lost Planet and Crackdown things will change but then I will be in University and so I kind of doubt it.

3. Kaiser Soze

   December 22nd, 2006 at 7:31 pm

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   Since thursday I have played at least 30 hours on my Wii. 15 hours of Zelda, and about 20 hours of Wii sport. What does that make me into? Anyway, it’s fine to have a word for people who play more than 5 hours a week. But ultra gamer is not it.

4. monir

   December 22nd, 2006 at 10:35 pm

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   is there a gamer after ultra? i usually spend 5+ hours playing games within 2 days.

5. Anuban

   December 22nd, 2006 at 11:15 pm

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   You are the Meta Humans … that is the level above Ultra I believe.
   Kaiser ultra is a good word when you consider most of us have kids, jobs, outside commitments, other relationships that require face to face time, school in many instances, maybe a sporting activity that is either team oriented or solitary like practicing on the shooting range or martial arts, dance, etc. Then on the weekends we have to catch up with laundry, errands, other committments … so really for the majority of us 5-10 hours is plenty.

6. Anuban

   December 22nd, 2006 at 11:21 pm

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   I haven’t had a chance to actually play anything on my Xbox in a while (five days) … except some UT2K4 and FEAR on my PC. And even then I just don’t have that kind of time anymore.

7. Jim2k

   December 23rd, 2006 at 12:56 am

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   Five hours? Come on! There are 3 year olds playing kids games hours a day, are they “ultra”?

   It should be more like 10 hours a week + $100 a month on games.

8. Jim2k

   December 23rd, 2006 at 12:58 am

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   And BTW, FPS Doug owns! BOOM HEADSHOT!

9. Anuban

   December 23rd, 2006 at 5:05 am

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   Sure those kids are Ultra … but what real parent lets any child who is the learning stage play just Xbox like video games for hours a day. See this goes back to poor parenting skills. These kids and their parents should be outside or the parent should be reading to them or even playing good music … and their are so many REAL learning aids that are electronic that the kids would love so I just don’t see a truly responsible parent letting their very young child play vid games for any substantial amount of time.

10. monir

    December 23rd, 2006 at 7:10 am

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    anuban, hardly any cases where kids are indoors is due to bad parenting. its all to do with society and the government, upping the price of everything, making a huge variety of things we all ‘need’, and this in turn means both parents end up working.

    my dad works on average 100 hours a week, can you imagine that? about 15 hours a day he spends at work, sometimes he works longer, sometimes less. my mum is working half-time, just to support the buying the kids spending. by younger brother spends a lot of time at home when not at school since everyone has something they want to do. its too much technology and other things thrown at us in too short a time.

    i don’t want to start a parenting/society debate on a games site so ill end it there:)

11. Anuban

    December 23rd, 2006 at 8:08 am

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    Yeah okay … let’s not get into that debate … it is much too deep and I want us to remain on friendly terms.

12. monir

    December 23rd, 2006 at 10:58 am

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    wahay.:)