Improving at Online Chess -- more games or less?

Let's say that I have a fixed amount of time to devote to Online/correspondence chess in a given day/week/month.  Better yet, let's say I have a fixed amount of time to devote to *playing* -- let's assume I'm doing my off-the-board study, and I'm just talking about on-the-board game time.

What do you think is the better way to improve my skill/rating -- to play few games, spending a lot of time on each?  Or to play many games, with the understanding that I'm not going to be able to deeply analyze many of them?

I have some thoughts on the topic but I'd like to hear others' opinions first.

I'm sorry, but that video never gets old. Anyway, I just play as many games as I can. That's my tiny recommendation

I say low to medium amount. Of course, that means whatever you consider to be few. I would consider the amount I have, 13, to be few.

To improve in cc chess is all about improving your understanding of the game. That's like 90% of what cc chess requires, and that's why I like it.

Trysts said many, yet she only has 22 games, which to me is a medium amount of games.

I had a massive rating jump a while ago when I lowered my games from 60+ to the 10-20 range. Giving each move in each game more of my time contributed to the jump.

I would agree with Elubas' thresholds... about 15 games or less is a small number to me; about 25 is medium, and more than 30 is a lot.  I've been at all those levels across the past 12 months; I think I peaked around 50 concurrent games at one time, now with 13 going.  Many of those were against weaker competition; it takes more time to play better players.

I would have thought that having more time to concentrate made for better quality chess, and indeed, I feel like I learn more when I take the time to focus.  Conversely, though, I felt I was in better overall form when playing more games.  Perhaps some of that was the illusion of playing against weaker competition, but I feel like the more frequent practice in game situations kept me sharper overall.

At any rate, it certainly makes it easier to move on to the next game after one's own oversights!

I also have an additional 17 games going on, at other sites

I currently have 60 games going, which the majority of are still in the transition to middle game phase. I've taken a "break" off from making moves on Online chess that has lasted about a week and a half so far. I'm using this time to do a lot of Live chess and Chess Mentor along with chess videos, ect. 

I don't intend to start any more games for awhile. I wanna get my number of games going to about 5-6 or so, and see how my rating feels about it. 

"I would have thought that having more time to concentrate made for better quality chess, and indeed, I feel like I learn more when I take the time to focus.  Conversely, though, I felt I was in better overall form when playing more games.  Perhaps some of that was the illusion of playing against weaker competition, but I feel like the more frequent practice in game situations kept me sharper overall."

I find this to be strange compared to my experience. To me, you don't really need to be "sharp" for a cc game, you have the all the time in the world to figure things out and calculate. For an OTB game, sure, it's good to have practice, some tactics training, etc, but I think with few games you feel more involved in the games, more immersed in the strategies, whereas playing lots of games feels more like a simul (but if you have fun with that go right ahead!).

So in short, I thought I was in overall better form playing with a small amount of games.