I have a few times, but it’s usually for a major release. For instance, for each WoW expansion I’ve taken a couple off (never release day, usually the rest of the week), but since I know that would look in askance at requesting time off for it, I would just call in instead and not give any reason and let them think whatever.
I don’t recall ever taking a day off just to play videogames that was just a “mental health” day. Any other time that I remember taking a day off and played videogames all day, I would have taken it off anyway (eg, it was use it or lose it time or a single work day between two periods of time off) and, had I not played videogames I would have been doing something else to pass the time instead.
I was thinking of doing it Friday for Skyrim, and also because tygre has the day off but I don’t. Unfortunately I have a meeting, a class to teach, and a doctor’s appointment down the road from work, so it’s not happening. It would have been a first, though.
Absolutely. The last couple have been for the release of Rift this past spring, and then Starcraft II last summer. Always actual days off, though, not sick days or anything like that. I also try to do a few days after something actually comes out, to try to avoid stuff like MMO servers not being up or Day 1 patches. Mass Effect 3 will probably be the next one to get this treatment.
Ditto. I am on the west coast, and coming in to work on “launch days” gives the support staff time to get their servers stable before I get home. Not to mention that the starting areas are swamped with folks all trying to grab the same spawn/mobs, but that can take a couple days to die down.
I scheduled a day off a couple of days after WoW: Cataclysm came out. I got a couple of levels in one day; it was actually pretty fun. I don’t think I’d do it again, though. It was more a function of the release being in December, when I had extra days left.
Several times for both games releases and book releases. Usually as scheduled vacation days but at least once there was an incident where I was SURE I could resist until I found out I actually couldn’t and had to call in dead after playing all night.
I’ll also add that I don’t buy video games when they come out (I prefer to buy them after the price drops), so any hype has long died down when I start playing a game.
Sort of. I always take my birthday off, and one year, one of the things I wanted to do was to get through The Simpsons Arcade Game in its entirety (I had a roll of quarters and was on a 2 lives per quarter machine; I think it cost me $5 to finish). However, I didn’t take the day off for the sole purpose of playing the game.
Board games, on the other hand…I have taken weeks off for those.
I just game on my day offs and I game even though it cuts into my sleeping time.Never taken a day off from work, but I certainly skipped a few classes in college to play.All thing i do for playing the game because playing game is the my life & also my best friend.
Never have, and probably never will. Back when I could afford new games, it didn’t really occur to me, and now two things keep me from doing it:
I almost always buy games on sale these days; and
As a teacher, it’s seriously more work to be absent than to be present. Well, maybe not seriously, but it takes so effin long to write up sub plans that it’s not really worth it just for taking a day off.
Since today is the release of COD: MW3, my coworker and I have been joking last week about taking today off for it. But we didn’t. He should have since it’s also his birthday today. I was a little late for work and he was begining to wonder if I was going to be absent. Maybe I’ll get my copy at lunch.
Nope, but that’s because I never really complete games. I have taken off for other frivolous things, like even watching a TV movie or reading a rather good book. But games are no big deal. If anything, I need to stop. If I don’t, I start getting much much worse. And I already play everything on easy mode.