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[sharp weiner]

I quit from 93-95

 

[Gonzito]

Never

 

[Dazraell]

Not completely, but I had moments when I didn't played anything for a longer while due to some irl stuff

 

[Danjin44]

No, asking me if I'm done with gaming is like asking me if I'm done with watching movies or listening to music.

Gaming is one of my favourite entertainment, why would I ever quite?

 

[PlayStaytion]

Life is better when you're good on both worlds.

 

[yogaflame]

No. But I do take a break sometimes.

 

[BeardSpike]

Quit? Nah , a bit of hiatus, sure - that depends on what is going in your life...

One thing I noticed, never feel guilty about your hobbies in adult life.

I have other hobbies besides gaming and watching movies and tv series. Like collecting and listening to vinyl.

So I try to do a little bit of this and that.

And not only game, I recently decided to hike a bit. Nature calms me as well as fresh air.

 

[Days like these...]

I quit after the Dreamcast died then slowly came back with Nintendo. Death to Sony!

 

[Sticks]

Nope. Fuck them kids.

 

[executor]

As you get older time become more and more a very limited resource and you've to select priorities also in your hobbies. At least when children are out of their teens you get some time back... It took me all the summer to finish xeno x on switch2 but what a great ride. Nowadays if I can finish 5-6 games a year it's already an achievement so I have to choose carefully what to play and what not. But stopping? No way!

 

[vaibhavpisal]

After PS3 generation.

Went for retro games, Nintendo exclusively.

Restarted playing regularly only recently. In 2021 when I got Xbox.

Will take regular breaks, in future. That break really helped in getting a better perspective on how and what I play.

 

[Windle Poons]

Getting close to it just lately…

Health issues making me tired and lethargic all the time recently so to knackered for gaming (amongst other stuff) however this isn't mumsnet so no point elaborating.

 

[Soodanim]

I don't quit entertainment. If something I started to do for entertainment purposes continues to be entertaining I will continue to do it. If it ceases to be entertaining I just don't do it, instead doing something else.

Making a conscious choice to quit seems illogical and counter-productive.

 

[Ar¢tos]

Many times. I have been 3 years without gaming, but usually is a few months.
Not for lack of time, it's mostly because very few games interest me.

Right now it's nearly 2 months since I played something and there is no upcoming game that i "must play".

A few look ok, but for those I have to wait for the right mood otherwise I'll quit them after a couple of days.

 

[kubricks]

Yes, right after the PS2 era, I had to take a break from gaming.
I was in the middle of finals for my bachelor's degree, and life got really busy. After that, I picked up rock climbing and car racing as hobbies, got a job, had a girlfriend who later became my wife, and we eventually had three kids.

I didn't get back into gaming until 2017, when the Nintendo Switch came out. Sneaking in some time to play Super Mario Odyssey while my sons were asleep felt amazing — like reconnecting with a part of myself I hadn't seen in years.

 

[Thebonehead]

Started in 82, I'll quit when I'm dead.

Holy shit, same with me. I got a Colecovision that year. First game I played was Donkey Kong. And hell no I ain't quitting anytime soon.

Got a Dragon 32 for Christmas in 1982 and didn't look back.

The Dragon was a UK home computer based on the same Motorola chip set as the Tandy TRS-80 colour, and as they shared lineage there was high compatability between them..

I managed to convince my dad to buy a c64, 1541 disk drive and mps-801 for his business the following year.

I used to write his letters for him on it, but most of its time was playing raid over Moscow, boulder dash, M.U.L.E. , summer games, Impossible mission, Shamus etc etc

Went Amiga then PC predominantly and have owned every Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft console. Yes I still have a Wii U and Vita knocking around.

 

[Baemono]

Kinda, but because I was too poor to be able to have consoles or a gaming PC, so anything my 200$ laptop would run (aka almost nothing), and besides that nope.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Never, during the 2000s I had a period of playing a bit less when I watched more tv shows (when they had 22+ episode seasons - they were very time consuming), but these days I'm playing more again.

 

[Bartski]

yeah, around 2001-2007 I was way too busy touring and doing drugs

 

[The_Mike]

I've had fatigue for modern games, but found joy in retro gaming which saved gaming for me

 

[kawiLo]

I onced gamed those were the days. I have a eight and 4 year old boys now my days are spent watching them watch. But the games they keep calling me man i got a real bad gaming itch reeeal bad maan im like pookie from new jack city i need my fix maan.

Getting a switch2 for eldest birthday in March cant come quick enough. And perhaps later down the line a toy for daddy

 

[Midn1ght]

Lost my job early 2024 and, after a few months, found myself spending 7–8 hours a day just gaming and not really doing anything productive. Eventually I decided to quit, sold my PC, and started focusing on job hunting again and landed a new job a couple months later.

I haven't really gotten back into gaming since then but I still keep up with the news and know I'll return to it at some point. I love gaming, but taking a break was probably the best choice I could've made at that point in my life.

 

[WX3]

There was a short period of time in 2002 or 2003 after my boys force fed my GameCube a banana that I didn't game. This was the second console my boys forced banana upon, the first being a PS2 that had a hole in the disc tray just big enough for a banana to fit thus the PS2 disc drive became a banana slicer. After the second episode I gave up on gaming until Halo 2 came out and my wife surprised me with an Xbox for Christmas in 2005. That two or three years away from gaming was agonizing but work at the time was taking up all of my spare time. It wasn't until life slowed down in the middle of 2006 that I got back on the game and haven't really taken time off since. As I grew older many of my other passions and hobbies fell off but gaming stayed strong. Right now at 50 it has never been more of a staple in my life, but I will always remember the few years I gave it up with the idea that life was just getting in the way.

 

[Forth]

Off and on but in the last few years I've become more aware of what I want from a game.
I've found that it's more of how a game makes me feel and less about my interest in the story and I'm finding that Nintendo have that feeling locked down tight.
Sony's big games like HZD and TLOU just absolutely bore me after the first few hours simply because their story is far better told in films or books and that the gameplay is the same old thing over and over.
Honestly I'm really enjoying my Switch 2 over my PS5 so much.

 

[rkofan87]

Watched this:



And it really resonated with me. Growing up I couldn't imagine ever quitting gaming but as an adult it started losing its luster and I quit for quite awhile. Even now I don't play all that much.

no

 

[hemo memo]

I did. Borderlands 2 and its DLC broke me. PC gaming and Steam Deck brough me back.

 

[Hudo]

Not sure if you can call it "quit" but there was a year or a year-and-a-half or so where I basically didn't play games because I just wasn't feeling it. Did other stuff instead. Then Breath of the Wild came out and pulled me back in. Nowadays, I have "acquired" the "skill" of being OK with not having play everything and not wanting to play everything. I found myself playing (and buying) fewer games but playing them in a more relaxed pace. I am almost done (I think?) with Metaphor, lol. Level 71 and 16 days until I have to Put an End to the Kingdom's Madness

 

[bad guy]

After over 20 years of intense computer gaming (began on Amiga500), I started developing games 10 years ago and hardly game anymore now (other than testing my creations over and over and over again).