For Those With Full-Time Jobs and Pre-Ordered Starbound...

Depending on when it comes out i may take a sick day or vacation. I already took 2 days off for the PS4 release. I can spare a day for starbound. Hell i still have a day or two left unscheduled that i need to take before the end of the year.

 

If I was going to take time off for a game this year, it would be GTA 5, not starbound. And I don't take time off explicitly for videogames anymore.

 

I will play Starbound - while working ;-). No need to take a week off.

 

I've clocked about 300 hours of overtime this year, I guess I can take off a day or two.

 

Nope, never.

No game is important enough to skip lessons or working hours. I pity the ones who think different, for they lack something meaningful in life: Reason.

 

No.
Leisure is leisure. Business is business.
I do business not only to make a living, but to better appreciate the leisure time I get by comparison. (I've been in the position of having too much spare time; it's not as fun as it sounds. You go stir crazy.)

 

Taking a day off, is not exactly skipping, now is it... You make it sound immoral somehow. My contract says I have 21 days off every year, how I spend them is nobody's business...

 

I wish I could take off when I please, but unfortunately nah. I won't be able to play it until I got home.

 

Of course it's your own business how you spend your days off. I was actually talking about skipping, not taking vacation.

I still have 18 days off I could use plus 5 days for working in rotating shifts, and it would be okay taking a day or two to do something useful, but playing a game is not exactly that.
And yes, it was supposed to sound immoral or reproachful to those skipping important parts of life for amusement., because there are far more important things than this, even if it is a great game like Starbound will be.

 

I took a couple of days off when Wrath of the Lich King was released. This will probably be the second game where I'll do the same. (And I see nothing wrong with it, why is that even an issue for some people?)

 

If I had a job, I would. As it is, I don't have THAT many hours of college courses, so I think I'll manage without missing class.

*shrug* You get vacation days for a reason, you may as well use them the way you want. I mean, if you have birthdays or holidays or trips planned those should get priority of course. But if you have some days left over, why not?

 

I agree with you.
But as I mentioned before: Playing a game is no reason for me to take a day or two off. If you or others do, that's okay. I don't mean to troll around, just wanted to state my opinion ^^

€dit: A day off would not mean I have much spare time. With a baby and a house there's quite much to do.

 

I voted no.
I don't so much get days off work, as get to be busy somewhere else.

 

I wouldn't necessarily take the day Starbound is released off, because chances are it'll be like a Tuesday or middle of the week deal. That said I would consider taking a long weekend so I can really go nuts with the game.

 

well as a truck driver I get hometime. Every 6-8 weeks out I take 5-8 days off. So I will try and arrange my hometime around the release date.

 

I intended to take a day or two off, but now that my deployment looms every closer, I don't think I'll have that chance.

 

It kind of depends on whether or not the week is busy. I've got to use up my vacation days, and I've only used like.. 1 or 2. So I might spend my days off on that, yeah. It all depends on the circumstances, I suppose.

 

Only if I know that friends would be available on said day to play it too.