Personal Experience Quitting Video Games

[Suigin Trismegistus]

I just realized I haven't played a single game this year. A full six weeks without gaming. This is unusual for me. Usually, I would have played a little bit of something by now, even if it was a couple of hours on a Saturday. I played a bit in December. But nothing this year. Thinking about it, I feel like I've reached a milestone. I likely passed it a year or two ago as I wound down on long gaming sessions and just didn't realize it. I'm clearly no longer addicted to gaming. I certainly was in my teens, 20s and at periods throughout my 30s.

There's just nothing new or alluring in the gaming world right now that interests me. I'll probably play a new game later this year if I see something that catches my eye. But I no longer care about missing out on the launch of a new blockbuster. Who cares? Not me.

As I stated before in another post, gaming feels like work to me now, and if I'm going to work I'd prefer to get paid for it. Why waste hours learning the rules and various systems of a new game if it has no application to the rest of my life? Why play an old trusted game if it's just going to result in the same outcomes? It's just not that entertaining anymore. I'd rather waste time in reading, watching movies/anime, or other hobbies where I have room to grow. I guess that's what it must be, I reached my gaming peak a while back, don't really have anything to show for it, and there's nothing left to be gained from it.

Where do I go from here? I don't know, but certainly not lost in a game.

 

[Schwarzwald]

I just realized I haven't played a single game this year. A full six weeks without gaming. This is unusual for me. Usually, I would have played a little bit of something by now, even if it was a couple of hours on a Saturday. I played a bit in December. But nothing this year. Thinking about it, I feel like I've reached a milestone. I likely passed it a year or two ago as I wound down on long gaming sessions and just didn't realize it. I'm clearly no longer addicted to gaming. I certainly was in my teens, 20s and at periods throughout my 30s.

There's just nothing new or alluring in the gaming world right now that interests me. I'll probably play a new game later this year if I see something that catches my eye. But I no longer care about missing out on the launch of a new blockbuster. Who cares? Not me.

As I stated before in another post, gaming feels like work to me now, and if I'm going to work I'd prefer to get paid for it. Why waste hours learning the rules and various systems of a new game if it has no application to the rest of my life? Why play an old trusted game if it's just going to result in the same outcomes? It's just not that entertaining anymore. I'd rather waste time in reading, watching movies/anime, or other hobbies where I have room to grow. I guess that's what it must be, I reached my gaming peak a while back, don't really have anything to show for it, and there's nothing left to be gained from it.

Where do I go from here? I don't know, but certainly not lost in a game.

Steroids and SARMs that's the power move.

 

[rentier]

I just realized I haven't played a single game this year. A full six weeks without gaming.

I'm clearly no longer addicted to gaming. I certainly was in my teens, 20s and at periods throughout my 30s.

Tales of a recovering alcoholic.

One of the most lucid boomers I know (which is to say, an era-defining intellectual) is heavily pro-gaming and he insists it reset your brain from being stuck in a rut. Let's even flip the script and pretend that personality is not an obscure Internet-who from a ESL country, but Elon Musk - that one famously plays video games.

I myself haven't been playing video games in ..a while, then I launched Dead Island 2 through a shady cloud streaming service (costs peanuts, 3-4 hours of gaming for $1 and no pre-purchasing of games) and my brain just went boom. What the fuck was that. An experience similar to landing in a Shanghai airport.

So my plan for the upcoming years it to catch up with BioWare output (I missed all Dragon Age games, I didn't even play Mass Effect; and I frankly never got serious with Neverwinter Nights or Baldur's Gate) and I'll just play through whatever, already do.

I don't think it detracts anything from me, scrolling random content feeds is somehow more damaging to the mind. Whereas you stay in the concentrated state during vidya experince and if it's rendered in 3D, it's basically poor man's tourism trip.

 

[Suigin Trismegistus]

I don't think it detracts anything from me, scrolling random content feeds is somehow more damaging to the mind. Whereas you stay in the concentrated state during vidya experince and if it's rendered in 3D, it's basically poor man's tourism trip.

This is certainly true. Doom scrolling is not a good substitute.

 

[t4rdation]

i agree, most games are just copy of one another and there is no interesting game anymore

 

[Mathiverse]

one of my only wishes for life is to get never bored of video games, i still enjoy video games just as much as when i kid, currently in my 20s and it's the best cope i have right now, and i never want it to be gone, video games are something that i feel like should stuck with me till i die