Think I might be done...

[Nintendesert]

I've found quicker games more appealing now due to my time constraints. I play a lot of WOT and War Thunder due to it. Even going into STO and doing a fleet battle and logging off. The main problem is playing for extended periods of time, MMOs are done to me unless there's options to play for free and for very short periods of time.

I'm just no longer hardcore gamer.

 

[n7]

I don't have as much time as i used to.
Having a social life and activities to do away from the PC screen cuts into gaming time hugely.

And frankly, while i sometimes miss spending copious hours gaming, really, i'm hoping i've moved onto better things?

 

[futurefields]

I don't have as much time as i used to.
Having a social life and activities to do away from the PC screen cuts into gaming time hugely.

And frankly, while i sometimes miss spending copious hours gaming, really, i'm hoping i've moved onto better things?

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Can we get this self improvement BS thread out of PC gaming please?

This is some menshealth.com crap...

I get enough of this from people I know in real life. As soon as they stop playing games 12 hours a day, they view people that do still enjoy gaming as some kind of scummy losers. F people like that.

People that change hobbies, and then the people that still do X hobby they used to do are time-wasting losers.

F people like that. It's so common too. People are miserable c\/nts. Do what you want, but no need for this confirmation bias BS coming into the PC GAMING forum and passively aggressively dissing the gaming lifestyle.

GTFO of here with that garbage.

 

[Via]

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Can we get this self improvement BS thread out of PC gaming please?

This is some menshealth.com crap...

I get enough of this from people I know in real life. As soon as they stop playing games 12 hours a day, they view people that do still enjoy gaming as some kind of scummy losers. F people like that.

People that change hobbies, and then the people that still do X hobby they used to do are time-wasting losers.

F people like that. It's so common too. People are miserable c\/nts. Do what you want, but no need for this confirmation bias BS coming into the PC GAMING forum and passively aggressively dissing the gaming lifestyle.

GTFO of here with that garbage.

That's kind of harsh, no?

 

[futurefields]

I just don't understand the point of threads like this.

Congratulations, you have transcended the gaming lifestyle! Now you're in the real world and the rest of us losers who still play video games as our main hobby?

We apparently suck at life.

 

[Obsoleet]

No, you suck at life if you can't get married and still manage to play games.

Bonus points if you can do it while your children are growing up.

 

[splat_ed]

I'm recently married, and got lucky in that we work slightly different hours - her from 9 to 5 and me from 1 to 9. Same days off though.

So the time we are together is together time (mostly - Sunday evenings is her drama time and my roleplay/boardgaming time). The hours when she's at work is my gaming time

 

[n7]

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Can we get this self improvement BS thread out of PC gaming please?

This is some menshealth.com crap...

I get enough of this from people I know in real life. As soon as they stop playing games 12 hours a day, they view people that do still enjoy gaming as some kind of scummy losers. F people like that.

People that change hobbies, and then the people that still do X hobby they used to do are time-wasting losers.

F people like that. It's so common too. People are miserable c\/nts. Do what you want, but no need for this confirmation bias BS coming into the PC GAMING forum and passively aggressively dissing the gaming lifestyle.

GTFO of here with that garbage.

Wow, rage much?
I love gaming.
I was relating to what the OP had mentioned.
I'm not married, don't have a gf.

But the older i've gotten, the less time i find for games, as i'd rather being spending time with friends.

I've not "transcended the gaming lifestyle", i've simply added other stuff to my life that i find rewarding, sometimes, meaning there's often less time for games.

Not sure why you felt it necessary to freak out over this...

 

[flexy]

My wife is a hardcore gamer, especially MMOs. She had/has a guild in WoW, and now plays SWTOR 25hrs/day. It has advantages (of course)...but then she is a lazy a$$ which spends all day gaming and less so cooking and cleaning

Then again, I can see the problem when a partner has no interest whatsoever in gaming where the other partner spends hours/day in some MMO and there is no common interest...

On a related sidenote: While we played WoW and other games together religiously, SHE is the one constantly begging me to play SWTOR. (Of course, now she is also some high rank in that guild, second only to the GM)...but I am not really into SWTOR at the moment. And...uh..yeah..just an hour ago she tells me she needs money for effing "cartel coins" to buy some crap in SWTOR....

 

[natto fire]

Protip: life is basically a video game, no matter what your faith or ethnicity is. Some people jam the quarter in and fly through it. Others place it more gently and hope for a good life. Both are dissapointed and search for meaning. Neither finds an answer, they hold a grudge against each other. Life goes on. The internet becomes widespread. Life goes on.

I find it truly amazing you VC&G folk can read the PC gaming forum, debate tirelessly in VC&G, and actually play games

 

[ponyo]

You're still an addict. You're done when you can't play a game for more than 15 minutes before being disinterested.

 

[smakme7757]

I'm 52 and I still play, although I no longer play MMOs, which are a whole different level of time-sink and, more importantly, isolation from the real world. When you're playing an MMO you have to focus on what the group is doing, anything coming in from the real world is an interruption. When you have kids, something is always coming in from the real world. In a single player game it's just: hit pause, help with homework, un-pause. Games now are what I do for an hour or so after dinner to relax, while my wife watches her show or works on her computer. After 21 years of marriage, I can tell you that having separate interests and not feeling like you have to spend every waking moment focused on each other is a great strength.

Pretty much this.

I've also outgrown any type of competative multiplyer where i'm forced to sit at the screen for longer than an hour at any one given time. I played WOW when i was younger for about 5 years and just got naturally bored of it.

For the last few years it's been Starcraft 2 which works well. I can start up a game at around 21:00 while my wife watches her TV and my daughter is asleep. If anything dramatic happens i can just leave and it doesn't really cause any problems seeing as i just loose, and that's it.

Personally i must admit i appreciate my free time more than i used too. Of course gaming isn't what i think about daily, but it's nice when the day is over to just chill out with a game.

Anyhow, your priorities should change when you get married and/or have children. I mean i personally don't understand how people can put gaming in front of their kids or wife. It just seems extremely strange.

 

[Arkaign]

I can relate to the OP, I have a small baby that takes a lot of my time, and I don't want to miss out on hanging out with him all I can while he's small.

This guy :



He's currently LVL2, haha.

Anyway, I've actually had a weird history of gaming.

0-6yo : rarely gamed, but did start typing games in basic (copying them into our Atari 800 from Byte/Compute/etc). Was fun and frustrating due to the terrible keyboard and lack of disc drive to save the games I typed. The good games were always many many pages of code, and if you didn't type it all perfectly, things were broken or strange. I did learn a lot about basic programming from this though, to the point of altering the content to suit my tastes (names of things, colors, even sounds after a while).

7-12yo : Did a lot more gaming, brother got SMS, I got a Gameboy but played a lot of NES at friend's houses. Won NWC, got a NES finally.

13-15yo : 16-bit! Played the poop out of Genesis/SNES/Amiga/ST stuff.

16-22yo : Moved, went into major rage mode of my life, rarely played games. Tons of anadrol/testred, I was not a really nice person during this era.

23-25yo : Played more games, but not more than 1-2hr a week really. Though once in a while I'd get the chance to spend a few hours with a great title.

26-30yo : Almost nothing.

31-36yo (current) : Played very little, but did start collecting old stuff, got lassoed back into classic competitive gaming for a brief period (I promptly re-retired). Played BF3 an hour or two a night for a while when waiting for my son to be born. Now I play maybe 30 minutes to an hour a week. On the rare occasion that I get the house to myself for a bit, I'll either sleep, catch up on work, or get in some BF3 action for a few rounds.

I do wish I had more time, there are some great games out there, and I know I missed a ton of greats over the years, but maybe when my son gets older I'll spend some more time. The lady of the house plays some Wii and the 3ds I got her while she was in the hospital for 6 months waiting on our little one. And she plays a lot of Hidden object games (stay at home mom) while he naps during the days.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

I'm 32 married, job, big yard and house to maintain, dog, cars to maintain, etc.. I play maybe 30 minutes a week. I admit it's probably a waste to have a gaming PC to play 30 minutes a week but I enjoy it and that's all that matters to me.

 

[Arkaign]

I'm 32 married, job, big yard and house to maintain, dog, cars to maintain, etc.. I play maybe 30 minutes a week. I admit it's probably a waste to have a gaming PC to play 30 minutes a week but I enjoy it and that's all that matters to me.

Hahah, yeah, I feel like I'm wasting mine. 2700K @ 5Ghz, 16GB 2133, SLI 670FTW 4GB, 500GB 840 Pro Raid, etc, and it gets very little love.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

My own experience as a wife of a gamer:

I was never interested in gaming until my husband bought "Myst". At first I watched him play, then we started playing together ( I would help out with puzzles, discuss strategies etc.). We bought more games and I started playing on my own. Years later, I am still an avid gamer; we have 2 computers and sometimes play together, sometimes we play our own games. I never play MMO's and mainly play only once or twice a week. Gaming is fun, but does not take priority over other activities. You might want to see if your wife would like to try some games with you. However, I will say what I enjoy most about games is the story line, characterization, and decent graphics. I do not care about "how many points I can achieve, or how great I was being able to beat the game on xxx difficulty". I play adventure games (Longest Jouney was great), RPG's like Oblibvian and Mass Effect, and shooters (original Max Payne, 1st Halo, RTCW, Painkiller...) I despise shooters whose goal is to simply kill anything that moves without moral justification. Anyway, this is my own experience with gaming. You might want to see if your wife might be encouraged to try it herself. I'm glad I did.

Wife of Runz

 

[KeithTalent]

Meh, you always need something you can do on your own, whether it be yard work, Football on Sundays, or playing games a few hours a week. I treat PC Gaming like that; like any other hobby I can do for a few hours per week when we inevitably need that alone time. It allows me time to blow off steam while she can watch shows I have no desire to watch, or whatever it is she wants to do.

KT

 

[Obsoleet]

What KeithTalent said. I don't like any tv shows, not many movies, and don't really like sports. Maybe 1 or 2 pro baseball games a year in person (Cubs or White Sox, wherever tickets are cheap ), and thats mostly for the booze and hotdogs.
That frees up a lot of time for gaming. That said, I'm very picky, and I suspect I'll go into a gaming lull once I get tired of LoL.

 

[HeXen]

What KeithTalent said. I don't like any tv shows, not many movies, and don't really like sports. Maybe 1 or 2 pro baseball games a year in person (Cubs or White Sox, wherever tickets are cheap ), and thats mostly for the booze and hotdogs.
That frees up a lot of time for gaming. That said, I'm very picky, and I suspect I'll go into a gaming lull once I get tired of LoL.

First person I ever met that didn't like TV and sports like me. Feels nice to know i'm not alone. Though i'm getting to the point where I pretty much despise TV and the people that can sit there for hours doing nothing. Among other things I grow to hate, it will probably make me like some cranky old man when i'm old but can't seem to help it.

 

[StrangerGuy]

I've found quicker games more appealing now due to my time constraints. I play a lot of WOT and War Thunder due to it. Even going into STO and doing a fleet battle and logging off. The main problem is playing for extended periods of time, MMOs are done to me unless there's options to play for free and for very short periods of time.

I'm just no longer hardcore gamer.

I'm 25 and I'm already sick of eternal treadmill-grind games. The moment Guild Wars 2 became that I lost all interest completely and quit. Or twitchfest "strategy" games for the matter.

 

[shortylickens]

Turned 34 yesterday and I too think I should move on with my life. Maybe more exercise and dating and hanging out.

 

[cmdrdredd]

First person I ever met that didn't like TV and sports like me. Feels nice to know i'm not alone. Though i'm getting to the point where I pretty much despise TV and the people that can sit there for hours doing nothing. Among other things I grow to hate, it will probably make me like some cranky old man when i'm old but can't seem to help it.

The only stuff I watch on TV anymore is Animal Planet, and documentaries about Nature, Space, or History. That's really it lol. Too much garbage about fake people yelling at each other for buying the wrong color shirt or something ridiculous.

I can relate to N7. I enjoy spending time with friends a lot more than I used to. Really social now. Get together every weekend for a foosball or darts tourney between the boys and the girls hang out and play cards or whatever. Have a few beers or whatever we feel like drinking for the evening and it's just cool. There is still always a time when I get sucked back into a game. I buy almost all the newest hot titles and every time I do I'm lost for a few days in it. Usually when there's nothing else doing on and usually later in the evening before bed. I just don't play MMOs anymore or any online game in a way that requires me to be on a schedule. I'll do MP sometimes but never in a guild, clan, or anything like that. I can't be bothered to show up every thursday at 8PM or whatever for some event they wanna do. If I have time then I'll jump in and maybe play some game. If not and there's something else going on then I don't even think about it.

 

[2is]

Anybody else sick of seeing threads like this?

"I dont have fun playing video games anymore "

[raises hand]

 

[Barfo]

Pics of your wife, to see if she's worth leaving PC gaming?

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Same here. I've been thinking for a while now that I need to stop buying games. I never, ever finish them, and am more interested in them now for their technical merit than their entertainment value.