Will you EVER quit/ take a break at playing online games?

[Timothy Ng]

Hi,

I know that online games can be VERY ADDICTING, and that sometimes you cannot just stop playing them, so much fun.

And i was wondering, to that extent, would you stop/ or break at playing online games?

The worst ever addiction when i played Conquer Online for 5 years, and ended up only to lv75. I then played again at end of 2011 and ended at lv110, and then i stopped completely.

How? Well i deleted my character ENTIRELY. Great Move. Heres a video of it:

 

[Petezorzz]

I told my mum to slap me every time I went onto a game. Now my face is deformed.

 

[JianhanC]

It gets tiresome after a while. I stopped DotA because I was terrible at it.

 

[LeighzerCuber]

That was an intense moment at the moment of deletion. I still have chills from the raw intensity.

 

[ressMox]

I used to be really hardcore into MMO's and the like. I quit permanently when I started uni (year and a half ago) to try to avoid distractions.

 

[emolover]

From the age of 5 to 14 I would play video games of some sort for up to 8 hours a day and it created bad grades and horrible study habits. I got into cubing and the Internet and I realised how destructive video games are.

I ****ing hate video games now.

 

[aronpm]

From the age of 5 to 14 I would play video games of some sort for up to 8 hours a day and it created bad grades and horrible study habits. I got into cubing and the Internet and I realised how destructive video games are.

I ****ing hate video games now.

How is cubing any better than gaming?

I'm redownloading Guild Wars. Eagerly awaiting GW2

 

[BrainOfSweden]

I have been without an broadband connection for almost a week now, so I'm taking an unintended brake from BF3 right now. Too bad one of my friends just bought the game. Anyway, I vote yes, because I'm that sort of person that onlyy can focus on one hobby or one game at a time. So naturally I take a break whenever something else catches my mind. But when I am playing an online game, I try not to play too much.

 

[Olji]

I don't really like playing online, mostly from bad experience from before, I prefer having a good time with people not really caring much about stats, which is pretty rare nowadays from what I can see, at least on the more popular games on the market.
Frozen Synapse have tendencies to give a good conversation during a match, so that's the only game I play online right now, and I'm not really addicted to it... Plays every once in a while when I don't have any homework or stuff to do.

 

[Stefan]

Well i deleted my character ENTIRELY. Great Move.

The manual documenting that interface: "Delete: Delete your character and anything belonging to it. A deleted character and its items can be restored in the Customer Service Center."

You're welcome. Now stop crying.

 

[Iggy]

I got bored of them a few years ago just before I started cubing. I was never really into gaming, mainly because I've never owned a PlayStation or an X-Box. Right now all I do is cube and go online to search for random stuff.

 

[aronpm]

I got bored of them a few years ago just before I started cubing. I was never really into gaming, mainly because I've never owned a PlayStation or an X-Box. Right now all I do is cube and go online to search for random stuff.

real gaming is pc gaming

 

[Goosly]

I don't have much time to play games, but in the last half year I played mainly:
Total War series (Medieval II, Third Age (which is a mod), Napoleon)
Assassins Creed Brotherhood
Fifa 12
Skyrim
AoE 3 (online with some friends)

I don't think I'll ever stop playing games. My education is in computer science, so I might even end up developing video games, as I like programming much more than network upkeep (or whatever you call that in English)

real gaming is pc gaming

Totally agreed

 

[Timothy Ng]

The manual documenting that interface: "Delete: Delete your character and anything belonging to it. A deleted character and its items can be restored in the Customer Service Center."

Well, first off i didn't know that the character could be restored in customer service.

Full Story:

After i realised that, then i made the move of creating an entirely new character, a useless lv 1 so that i needed to start again.

To that point, i assume this end as a deletion, well not a WHOLE deletion, but you get the point, to the extent really.

 

[insane569]

Well I have almost 9 total days one COD:BO on my xbox. Ever since starting cubing I haven't really gamed as much. I have about 7 1/2 days on minecraft and I'm still going to play that but FPS is something I enjoyed alot. Now its just kinda dead. Not as enjoyable as minecraft or cubing.

 

[ZamHalen]

I used to play a lot of WoW for awhile, then I started having random dreams involving it.So, I just stopped playing. Though I did recently start Champions.
Someone save me!

 

[Georgeanderre]

The only "Online" games I used to play was Runescape, quit about a year ago, these were my stats...

Spoiler

And the Cape collection: S10, S20, S30, S40, S50, Herald, 5Year, Classic, Fire, Fletching, Woodcutting, Thieving and Firemaking (L-R)

Once upon a time I said the day I "maxed" farming, I could quit and be happy about it... but I gave in at 94, 99 is "max"

I still remember how to play, and what I wanted to do, so there is a very slim chance that one day I will go back to finish it off... but I hope not

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The only other games I play are (Legend of Zelda: Insert title here), 100% completion on every title, except Skyward Sword, which I'm still on my first play through of...

And pretty much any Mario Game, also 100% completion on every title I have ever owned/borrowed.

 

[Chrisalead]

I have quit Word of Warcraft after 5 years of beeing a "no life" a year ago and I must say it's one of the best things I've ever done. It was way too much time consuming for... well nothing. Basically a work after work... Now I enjoy speedcubing, playing my guitar, using my telescope and piloting my RC helicopter. And of course, watching my 3 daughters growing !

 

[waffle=ijm]

There are games (starcraft, runescape, maplestory, and more) that I would play for 20 hours, stopping for food and stuffs. Now that I'm in college, there's too much alcohol and drugs, and games never seem to find their way back into my life. Thanks College for breaking my addiction!

 

[Thompson]

I was addicted to runescape so I alched my santa hat and gave my account away. Cubing is way more important