Bauxe wrote:
Just playing the game is still warming you up though.
Yes, it's just perspective.
People who play for longer sessions will feel like warming up takes longer, since they reach a higher peak of improvement than people who play in shorter sessions. Personally, I can hardly spare more than 4 hours on any given day for a game, so 2 hours is half of that. If you play 8 hours a day, you might feel like you take 4 hours to warm up, since you might return to a map 4 hours later, see improvement, and deduce that it took you 4+ hours to warm up. I suppose you could call it "progression" towards the mean (as opposed to regression).
I did a 10 hour session once and achieved a personal milestone 9 hours in. Did it take me 9 hours to warmup for that? No, because that's not normal for me. So what is normal for you will determine how long you need to warm up.