how do you balance animal crossing and real life?
for background: i’m a full time college student (art school) who also does personal extracurricular projects for personal fulfilment and portfolio reasons so i’m very busy. issue is i LOVE animal crossing but i really don’t get to play it as much.
i don’t believe in that log in for 15m a day thing,, the basic daily chores themselves take way more than 15m and that’s not even getting into the fun things to do in a day. im still quite early game,, i’ve had severally house upgrades but kk hasn’t performed yet bc like i said i don’t have too much time to play. a normal satisfying play through for me is about 3h, that’s enough time for me to do chores and have some fun decorating etc. i’m only able to do that every saturday and sunday so i practically only play twice a week and even then that’s 6 entire hours i could be spending on either schoolwork or my personal projects.
don’t get me wrong, i don’t consider it time wasted at all because i do enjoy it,, i am very good student and i do put a lot of time into my personal projects; i just feel like i could still put even more time into school and my projects. i end up feeling guilty whenever i play this game because it’s such a time sink. i’ve missed so many in game holidays too bc i can’t afford to play everyday.
what i mean to ask is, how do you (busy, working, ambitious adults and students) manage the balance? i’m beginning to realise i may have to unfortunately stop playing to dedicate more time to my long term goals. any advice?