Have you ever taken a time off to play a game?

DA: Origins - a few days
Skyrim - one week

If school counts, I know that numerous college class attendance attempts were thwarted immediately following the release of Ocarina of Time. In fact, I would venture a guess that I missed more classes in that week due to one game than I missed throughout college due to hangovers...

I seem to remember being pretty zoned out one day at work after playing a City of Heroes task force for several hours at night.

I don't do it but when i'm on vacation i try to spend up my time playing and i end up spending it with family or friends ;_;

PD : i have to change my reply , i didn't answer your question D: i'm dumb.

No, I have different priorities.

I never had to. Also, I don't play games on release.

Never did, never will.

My friends always did when I was in school but I don't really see the point.

Once skipped two days @ school for Max Payne 3. Well worth it.

Last time we had a 5-day Christmas leave + day-off from work. That time I've spent playing Tekken Tag Tournament 2 with my buddies, with bettings of course :D

I have a lot of time atm because I'm in highschool but I did skip some days to play some games . I doubt that I will take a vacation when I will be working just to play one game .

Look at me, I'm doing it today! University can wait. No regrets.

i don't buy games at release, but i have taken time off to extend a lan party weekend

I took a Friday and Monday off work to have the long weekend when Skyrim was released. My girlfriend (now wife) bought me beer, made me cookies, and set it up for me to get pizza deliveries each day and then left me to it. It was majestic. I will probably do the same for the next ES game. I think that is the only time I have though, unless skipping class in college a couple times counts.

I'm doing it for Omega Ruby as well but only because Smash Bros releases the same day :b

Yeah GTA V was the last game I 'pulled a sickie' for ahem.

I did stay up for the midnight launch of the Sega Dreamcast as well, then didn't go into school the next day (if that also counts). Had no regrets as it was worth it.

Nah. I never buy games at release. Too many bugs and the price comes down too quickly.

Skipping school or work for playing games (even if it's THE game for you) doesn't seem the right choice to do, so I never did it. However pulling a whole night because of a game and going to work with zero hours sleep is also really unwise and I've done it a thousand times. The good part is, if you work in customer support like I do, it gets easier to put up with the moronic ones. You had a good night, you're literally falling asleep while they're being obnoxious, you just don't care :D

Haha, no. I've always had a real life :D

I remember skipping school to play video games just once or twice.

Why would I do that? I'm not gonna miss anything if I play it a few hours later because of school/university lectures/whatever. At best, they might even manage to fix release bugs during that time. :P
Not that it could ever happen, seeing as how I don't buy games on release because they're too expensive (75% off or NO DEAL!)... ok, 'cept BioShock Infinite, but I didn't skip uni to play it a few hours earlier. ;)

I used some breaks from school to play some games, but nothing in particular. Also I never bought a newly released game.

Not a newly released games (I don't buy those, I always wait for the bugs to get fixed and the price to drop), but I did occasionally take a day off from school so I could play World of Warcraft when I was younger :D

Totally worth it, as I had more friends in the game than in school!

As far as I can remember, no. But I've skipped school a few times (back in the day) to go to the movies with my girlfriend at the time-- does that count? ^^