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I lost interest when life became more interesting. I earn a decent living now, but the games I play are around tech and society. Feels less like I’m throwing my time away.

After years realized it's total waste of time. Reading books is zillion times better than playing games and watching TV. Finally realized truth which wize man said: I found gamas and TV very educational. Whenever somebody play or turn TV on, I go to other room and read.

I'm too busy and they give me headaches quickly.

And all the RPGs I used to enjoy now simply consume more time than I'm willing to invest.

Mainly not enough time, but also expensive games.

I use to have PlayStation and Wii, but once I started with with music collection cd and vinyl, I lost interest in games. Games cost $$, and if you want to buy more than one game, you have to pay $$$. I would pirate games, but I prefer to buy them so I can support the developers.

I used to be super excited about games growing up. But today they have lost their charm. It's pretty much the same games all the time with new graphics. Gets really old.

Just like with movies, you have 99% crap and a few good ones that are hard to find.

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Mild depression

Renovating a house.

Deadly combo. I still play a couple hours a week some weeks because it is how I keep in touch with my friend group since I am on another continent. Exclusively shitty multiplayer games like cs2 and Smite though because that is what we can play flexibly with 2-5 people. We haven't found any other option

I was NEVER really a gamer, the only time I spend a large time in games was in college, that is was very little comparing to my friends. I have this one week phase where I would play the game quite religiously (only relatviely speaking) for a week (two to three hours maybe?) and then I would lose all interest in it. I think its because I dislike how much it eats my time? I would rather spend that time reading books.

Then came work, marriage and children (espeically the last two).

YouTube happened. If it wasn't for it I'd probably still play much more than I currently do.

However I've always had a weird relationship with games anyway. I'm not interested about the vast majority of them but when I find one I like then I really get into it. Examples being games like RuneScape, AOE2, Minecraft, DayZ and the GTA series especially San Andreas Multi Player at which along with RuneScape I probably have the most hours in. Nowdays I only play DayZ which is probably my favourite game of all time despite being over 10 years old but even that I generally only play for few hours a week and then sometimes I go months without touching it.

My significant other made me feel like it was for kids and I just got this overwhelming feeling of guilt any time my SO saw me playing them. My SO just doesn't understand video games because for my SO they are frustrating.

I rebounded in COVID and no longer give a fuck. I like em so imma do what I do.

I prefer to play the game of life, pretty similar to video-games but instead of wasting time you have to spend money you don't have to buy useless shit to impress people who don't give a fuck and keep working to pay your debts, just part of growing up..

Gaming started giving me anxiety. I stopped for a bit. Then whenever I try and come back, they’ve just gotten overwhelmingly complex.

Graphics card got way more expensive than the PC I had.

Chores, work, socializing and the cost of new games

My brain has degraded. I read a lot alright, but movies, TV shows and games are harder and harder to enjoy. I still think games are the highest form of art and when I enjoy them, I enjoy them hard.

I play old games because I built my compiter in 2013, so it's Stellaris, Minecraft, Doom (with randomizer WADs), Action Half-Life, and Quake

I'm tired all the time and there's almost always something else I should be doing. Plus, so many games feel like just more work instead of fun.

I was primarily a PC gamer. Life happened.

Time was already tight. I was working 2 jobs totaling ~80 hours a week. About the time I finally quit one, my computer let out the magic smoke. Rent went up, replaced my beater of a car, bought a house because rent was going up again, found out I was going to be a parent, house needed work, replaced my SO's car, fixed fire damage to the house, SO quit their job, found out I was gonna be a parent x2.

Things just got busy fast. That computer blew the magic smoke 6-7 years ago now. I've saved up the money to replace it several times, but something else more important always comes up. I'd still love to replace it and game again, but I've been out of it so long that I don't even really know what games are out anymore or what I'd like to play, and honestly I get more joy out of occasionally playing Smash Bros on the Switch with my first kiddo. The game is ok, but time with the kiddo is valuable.

It seems that most modern games aren't made for people like me any more. I don't care for multiplayer, and will not be buying any DLC or microtransaction shit. I just want a self-contained, high-quality single-player experience. There's maybe a couple of games per year released that catch my interest now.

I just lost interest. I used to play PUBG Mobile for example, but now it's basically transitioning into Fortnite-style game instead of something more realistic. I used to play CODM, but there's so much paywalled crap to click through that it became less fun.

And also, they kept getting larger, and larger. I think CODM may now be taking some 30-40GB. That's a lot for a mobile game. I'll rather use the storage for something else.

For example, a few days ago I installed and set up a Navidrome server on my phone in Termux. Navidrome can't do folder-based categorizing, so I had to play around with the actual metadata to achieve what I want, but I also didn't want to alter the original files. So now I have duplicate music which means extra 19GB. That's still less than even just CODM. And I have more fun with stuff like this.

If I did have the extra storage... I'd use it for Wikipedia maxi package (110GB) and install kiwix-tools in termux to serve it.
I really wish 1TB MicroSD cards were cheaper.

Edit: Perhaps I could just delete the 110GB of DVD ISO files that I used exactly 0 times. Or just get at least a 512GB memory card instead of current 256GB. Yeah, probably that. I hate deleting files. But this can't go on forever...

Life hit hard. But I took up on gaming again during the lockdown. Now I get together with my boomer squad every other day. Laughs and giggles.

I grew up. I also broke out of a shy shell more and prefer living life rather than sitting in my room, which wasn't very good for my mental health.

For me, a lot of games just don't grab my attention. I'm not interested in playing online on a team, especially with strangers. I definitely don't want to wade through menus of crap that try to make me buy something.

I don't want to have to invest hours into a game before I get anywhere either. I tried Zelda :TOTK recently, and I watched what felt like half an hour's worth of cutscenes before I could do anything other than follow a predetermined path, and it just bored the crap out of me.

Everything seems to be sports, team multiplayer, or massively in depth stories now, with no room for quick, easy to play games that are not mobile games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3_IuPMya6k

I still love gaming but have trouble getting into a game. This is true for me for a lot of my hobbies like reading, for example, but games are a much bigger commitment.

For big titles generally the controls or plot are complicated enough that if I stop playing for a few weeks, returning requires starting over from the start.

For smaller or indie games I find that either they're either trying to milk whales, or they don't let their mechanics breathe.

Often times I just want to play a stupid simple match 3 style casual game, and they ramp up the difficulty too quickly by adding obnoxious obstacles or other things that feel designed around microtransactions even when they aren't.

The last two games I got into were the Harry Potter game a year ago and Dave the Diver. The latter was somewhat guilty of not letting its mechanics breathe but generally it was because of too many quirky cutscenes in between diving sections. I still was able to go pretty far in it before I ran out of time to play.

Games made to make money instead of games made to have fun. Almost every big budget game of the last two decades has been at BEST a lazy sequel now with more microtransactions.

Indie games are still fun, but big budget gaming is a corporate hellscape equivalent of walking in to Walmart when all you want is a grocery store that sells actually edible food.