Why do people stop playing videogames?

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This is an overall person topic not AS based. Besides the fact that life gets in the way a job or family life or college I don't see or understand the argument of "not being fun anymore." Sure that's some people's opinion which is fine but the idea of just not playing videogames is shocking to me. Sure I've gone months without playing my videogames but some new game comes along that reminds me "THIS" is why I play videogames or X series.

The new Mario and Zelda games reconfirmed my love for those series. Games such as Skyward Sword and MGS4 and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim remind me WHY I'm a gamer. I hope nothing EVER gets in the way of me being a gamer. The idea of me not playing videogames seems silly to me. I understand if you never found them interesting in the first place but I'm sure I could find you SOME game (if you've never touched videdogames) that you'd like! Pac-Man,PONG,Mario Bros.,Zelda etc. There's a videogame for everybody IMO.

Some people tragically lose their awesomeness. Its a scientifically proven fact.

I stopped playing because I realized I was getting nothing from it of value. I much prefer brain teasers, puzzles, and reading these days.

More productive.

Also, I may have been slightly addicted.

The batteries run down.

Music, nostalgia and the Internet took over.

I use to be awesome at video games then my brain failed on me, now I'm somewhat good at integral calculus, chemistry, and the carbon chemistry.

I found out running around in a real forest was more fun than running around one on a television screen, and kicking a punching bag was more fun than playing Street Fighter, and driving my real car at midnight on backroads is more fun than playing racing games. However, when I can't do those things, video games are there. So they still have a place, but I just eventually found out going outside and doing things was pretty fun and usually benefited my body and mind more than video games.

To an extent, sometimes you can't, like you can't ride your bike in the snow very well for example, so that'd be appropriate to play video games, but if it's sunny out, you know, why stay inside and play video games? It's pointless. I wanna solve my snow problem, though, and get some cross country skis, and hit up the woods near my house with them.

Really, 90% of video games just emulate things you can probably just walk like a mile from your house and find or do anyway. Some people play for the social aspect, however, I rarely play multiplayer games with other people, and never played any MMOs, and played Forza online for maybe a total of like...an hour in my entire life (though I've logged probably about a thousand hours of playing that game alone.)

For some proof of my statements, let me show you some stuff I found with walking distance from my house on local little hiking trails.


Under this bridge is a small waterfall, too.

Some bro built a treehouse in some trees in this seemingly public land area place. I climbed up the ladder. Why? Why not?

Bridge on the main trail more people go on, those first 2 pics are off the beaten path. It's a bridge over a swampy pond area. The main pond itself is really cool and has like 4-5 bridges on it, but no pics of it.

But, video games are still cool and all, just there's so much fun stuff outside I've not played with, maybe one day I'll go back to video games. There's also me being busy with stuff, too, and it gets dark like 4 hours earlier now that it's winter.

I started playing a lot less after I graduated high-school because I got a computer & internet; I became addicted to that. I lost further interest in video-games a couple years latter when I started suffering a sever depression. I've been out of my depression for a while but the 5 years I spent on psych meds &/or the depression changed my mind some & I don't have the attention span or focus to play video-games anymore. I zone out & daydream or I want to do something else shortly after I start; it's like I get very bored & paying them frustrates me

I hope that never happens to me.

Because video games don't interest them the way they interest real gamers.
It's just not their cup of tea. I don't fault them for it, they seek different things out of life.

I keep playing video games into middle age because I have found career opportunities in the game industry. I have been an artist and level designer in the past and now I am learning more about programming so that I can some day sell my own game titles. Video gaming is a multi-billion dollar a year industry, competitive with film & TV. Working in video games and playing video games go hand in hand.

I do sometimes do things away from the computer, in meat space, rather than cyber space. I go out and explore nature. Drive through the country when I can afford the gas. It is important to have a balance in life.

But if I'm at home, I'd much rather do something on the computer rather than just vegetate in front of the TV.
Passive entertainment like TV & movies I find boring. Watching TV is much more of a waste of time than playing a video game. In a game the player is solving puzzles, forming strategies or just pain being creative, depending on the genre of game.

They've melted my braaaaaaain.

I just grew tired of playing them and moved on to other things in real life. I used to love Doom and Quake but such games don't interest me at all nowadays.

There's comes a time when people lose interest, I'm 19 still gaming but don't think I will continue being a regular user of the old box upstairs. It gets on my nerves and you just feel like your are wasting your time whenever your on it.

They don't have time to play video games if they have work and are paid close to minimum wage requiring the absorption of their waking hours be spent doing work for other people to benefit from more than they do. Other people may view video games as stuff for kids alone, to be grown away from as the number of times they have orbited the sun increases. For the latter here is my solution: they should move to Pluto because a year there is 248 Earth years so the number of times a person could orbit the sun would probably not even reach one and even for supercentenarians they'd probably only orbit 2 to 4 times.

I play them every now and again, but I don't like to be idle. It's not who I am. The most gratifying part of doing something for me is the product of my endeavors... Videogames don't give me that.

It may depend on why they play in the first place.

I used to play a competitive team based multiplayer game and I stopped playing because I grew more and more frustrated with my inability to compete on the level I felt I needed to play at. I also was never really comfortable with the voice communication part. On top of that, people who are really good at games are often incredibly annoying and I sometimes got into very unpleasant "discussions".
To sum it up, it ate up too much of my free time and I wasn't enjoying it enough to warrant spending so much time with it. For a time it also served as an ego enhancer which is pretty unhealthy, of course.

With other games ... I don't know, I just don't seem to enjoy it that much any more. I bought the last two Zelda games just because I have fond memories of A Link to the Past, and I stopped playing both after 2 or 3 hours. I packed away a hardly used GameCube 2 years ago or so, and will probably do the same with the Wii which is purely a dust collector as well.(ok, it graciously also generates guilt feelings for wasting money)

I much prefer to read a book or even watch some TV, something that relates more to my life and has depth.