Have you ever "quit" gaming?

Quit intentionally? Naw

Did I take a year-long break while I was dating a girl? Yup. But again, not intentionally quitting - just all my free time was spent with her or out doing stuff. Still played occasionally at friends houses but there was a solid 15 months where I didn't really play anything solo.
 
There have been periods of my life where I've been busy with other stuff and hobbies and I've played less games.
But fully quitting games to me would be like quitting watching movies or reading books, I doubt I'll ever do so.
 
No, but I understand why one would. As of now I'm considering reducing the time I play games drastically.

There are important things I should be doing and decisions to make, but I've been putting them on hold because at the end of the day, after work, I prioritize relaxing and distracting myself by playing games. And that's fine, but it takes too much time that I could be using productively in something else that would bring me much more joy and comfort in the middle to long term.

I hope I don't ever want to quit gaming entirely, though. Or if I do, it's because I've found something much more important and meaningful to me and not because I've grown disinterested.
 
The only reason to "quit" gaming is if you're an online gamer and it became an unhealthy obsession. I have known people to fuck up their degrees and entire companies to fail due to MMO addictions.

Partners may also force people to quit gaming, but that's not a reason to quit, more that you made poor choices by selecting someone that will force you to abandon your hobbies🤣
 
There was one point where I was going out a lot, and nightlife replaced gaming as my hobby. I came back to gaming after I had my fix of partying. Lasted about three years or so?
 
I have stopped playing videogames for up to a year at a time. More often, it's several months. I don't think of it as "quitting" so much as losing interest.
 
Yes. In like 2008 for awhile when basically nothing remotely interesting was coming out. Nintendo went for awhile and didn't make anything i was interested in for like 4-5 years outside of very rare exceptions. I ultimately wasn't a fan of the remote+nunchuck past Mario Galaxy wearing off it's newness (amazing game). 360 was good, I bought one, realize it had nothing I wanted to play, so I went for like almost a year and only played RISK on my Xbox, became quite addicted. Eventually did some digging around and discovered Lost Odyssey, went out and bought it. Quickly was enthralled and it ended up becoming my favorite 360 game by far, outside of Skyrim. To this day one of the very finest JRPGs of the modern era. At this point, Nintendo was still not making much I cared out. And indies hadn't really become a thing yet. Weird times, for sure. RISK and Lost Odyssey.
 
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I haven't quit but certainly game far less. I prefer more impactful experiences rather than just consooming the next heavily marketed thing(distributed through hype channels) and usually older generations of gaming satisfy that.

I also used to be like the posters on the first page where I greatly disliked movies and preferred gaming but that surprisingly shifted. Now I prefer to read and watch films or shows, or play tabletop games. While I like how gaming is usually more involved than say a movie for the past decade and a half gaming has become so damn formulaic that they all copy each other and are a chore to not only play but the thought of a replay turns my stomach. While a time investment at least with films its straight to the point story without having to hold x or square to watch some trite animation or slow walk some walkie-talkie exposition dump with no decent cinematography.

So while not quitting per se I've never gamed less in my life which is not something I thought I would ever say. I used to think I'd play till death but gaming has lost its luster. There are gems to be sure, but I'm tired of not only having to fork over a small fortune for the privilege but then finding poor return on my investment in regards to all aspects of the product(quality on release, nickel&diming the customer, potential censorship, poorly designed game mechanics, poor writing).

I still game but the excitement I get when thinking of throwing on a movie, show, album or running a tabletop game is far more enticing. Game design has totally stagnated in the industry made far worse by the legends that have left.
 
I've never made an intentional decision to give up playing video games. Like most hobbies, I just do it when I want to and skip it when I don't. Doing one thing means not doing others, and vice versa. Doing one thing does not mean I'm actively quitting all of those other things when I don't do them.
 
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Sometime during the GCN/Wii era and the WiiU brought me back.
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I'll bet this happened a lot. To people nowadays who weren't actively gaming in the mid 2000s or before, it's hard to explain how few games there were collectively speaking vs now. I mean now there are so many games that I have to wait on games for up to a few years because it's like there's nowhere near enough time to play the ones that interest me, even if I wanted to. Man, during the GameCube era...geez just look at the library. Like, you could count on 2 hands all of the best games from the library over a ~5 year console cycle. September and October this year alone is like a years' worth alone of total noteworthy industry-wide output from 2005. It's just crazy. And I wouldn't even say this year is that heavy, either. It's like a standard year. Not overly heavy.
 
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Only once. Stopped playing games for 2 months after slogging through Horizon 2. I evaluated my gaming preferences big time during that time period. Came back and been gaming in a healthy way ever since.
 
I've never stopped entirely, but I'm pretty much done with AAA gaming and have been for years. The last "big" release I bought was Elden Ring. PS4 was my last console and I've stopped upgrading my PC unless shit breaks. I'm fine with sticking with indie/retro games forever at this point.
 
Keep Going Never Stop GIF by Ramsey Solutions
 
I quit for a bit after my PC blew up and I didn't want to buy a new one. Then I saw someone playing Gears of War on 360 with an HDTV and I was blown away. Got an HDTV and a 360 soon after.
 
I believe we all as gamers get to the point in life where we get in to the crisis & we are sick from videogames.
That point for me was when I got burned out from WoW & stress from being among top tear world raiding guild & raiding every damn night.
And that lasted for an year or so.........damn agony & I deleted my all characters, deleted WOW, deleted all my games from the PC, sold all consoles & games that I had & quitted playing games for almost an year.
Game that got me back in to the gaming was The legend of Zelda: Twilight princess !!!
Funny thing was I got it with Nintendo Wii as lottery gift from shop where I got my new phone.....sometimes life has it's own ways......
 
I need to quit. And many of you do as well. I have definitely scaled back my time with gaming. It really is endless trash now and having gamed for so long, I really have been there and done that. So rarely do I play a game now that feels fresh. Expedition 33 is one of those rare games.
 
Took a couple of years at the end of the PS2 generation for no reason. Haven't stopped since then. Been gaming since the early 80's and I don't plan to stop anytime soon.
 
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I remember one year in elementary school I stopped playing games all semester. No real impetus, it just worked out that way.

Then my brother randomly rented Metal Gear Solid 2 one weekend and I remembered oh yeah this is the best shit ever.
 
Used to work in this industry, by the time I got out I was very jaded and cynical, took about a year off to discover other hobbies (like 40K!). When I came back to gaming, it was very easy to fall back in love with the hobby. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, I guess.
 
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Took a couple of years at the end of the PS2 generation for no reason. Haven't stopped since then. Been gaming since the early 80's and I don't plan to stop anytime soon.
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So lets see......you are gaming from early 80's...same like me so you are over 50 ?
Not much time left for us bro.......no more then few generations of consoles :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 
No, But I've quit spending silly money on ALL the games. I'm still playing bangers from 2020 and using the giftcards I've stacked from work for the nice stuff.
 
No, but i once had a break that lasted about half a year, there wasn't much that interested me back then and i had no urge to play either. Just watched movies and series during that time.
This also taught me to be more selective with games, focusing on those that i really want, rather than buying everything that looks cool.
 
No. I had a low point in my early to mid teens. Don't know if it just was the teen years or the fact that I had a Saturn and was kind of a disappointed Sega fanboy at the time. When Dreamcast was announced I got back into gaming again.

Since then I've been gaming. Not even when my family was struck with tragedy did I stop playing videogames. Having kids obviously changes everything. I probably read and write more about games than I actually play them these days, but I still buy lots of games and try to keep up with new releases. Right now I'm busy playing Silent Hill f, Sonic Racing Crossworlds, Cronos and Hell is Us. Last summer I revisited my Gamecube library.

Games is my way of relaxing when the kids are asleep and I don't need to think about my job. A few hours of escaping to another world. I hope I won't wake up one morning feeling nothing for the collection that is taking up more and more space in my house.
 
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beginning of 2024 I stopped playing my PS5 and started buying LEGO after 20 years. still played sometimes but I'm sick of this boring
generation where Sony doesn't say a word. for years. Xbox had a small show in January where they showed 4-5 games and at the end they said "see you in June event"
or something like that. but Sony can't say "hey, we will have an event in June " -___-
also, people ask for remakes for years but they don't give a shit. Motorstorm, Resistance, Killzone, Warhawk...
they cancelled Twisted Metal and Last Of Us game which I would love. I do play it in 2025

I also stopped caring about games around 2004 or 2005 when we got a new guy in high school and he told me he can put a chip in my PS2.
I said okay. told me I have to press "restart" two times and I can play any game. didn't work. fucked up my PS2. didn't wanna spend money on another one.
also, my high school was hard so I had to study

but around 2006 when I saw the first screenshots and read info about Motorstorm in our magazine where it said "deformed mud" I was like "I'm buying PS3".
I would say I became a real game since day one. played every day and followed gametrailers, ign, neogaf, n4g....
I believe I was first on the leaderboard in Warhawk and Battlefield BC2 in my country. my favorite multiplayer games ever. great generation and my favorite console
 
I often quit for a short time, when I need to fap. Afterwards, I am straight back. Btw, if someone needs a controller to lend, just let me know.
 
That's how I feel currently. Not a massive quit but I've been gaming less and only playing games I want to play. Instead I've been reading lot more books, manga and comics. It's just that the videogame market becoming more expensive has been turning me off. Not to mention my age (I'm 41), I tend to want to read something to play a videogame. I know I sound like a boomer
 
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