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Gaming was like breathing. It was the biggest part of my life as a teenager, one of my priorities as a college student, and eventually one of my most expensive “hobbies” as a young professional.
Then all of a sudden, after thousands of hours spent playing across genres and platforms, boredom hit me hard for the very first time in my early thirties. Some of my favorite games soon gave me the impression of being terribly long. I couldn’t help but notice all the repeating tropes and similarities in game design between franchises.
I figured it was just a matter of time before I found the right game to stimulate my interest again, but time continued to go by and nothing changed.
Is it that games have failed to innovate, or that real life is ultimately more engaging?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by anubi on Tuesday January 08 2019, @01:18AM
Yeah, the job thing always took top billing with my time too.
I considered playing games so unproductive when I had my projects to work on, but admittedly a lot of my priorities changed when the micromanagers took over, and the investors made it quite clear they valued micromanagement more than me by making me subordinate to one.
I had a few older games, but several of the newer games just caused me grief with special requirements and limitations, and I gave up on them for the same reasons I gave up on purchased music... It wasn't the fee, rather it was compliance with business talk, enforced by my own machine against me. Especially things like time limits or requiring additional commitments from me for additional components or drivers.
I hold the least important part of the modern executive business marketing paradigm, that is, the desire to purchase. That is so less important to business as their need to control me by coding my own machine to act as their enforcement and ad delivery agent.
This
So, I am one who lost interest in it.
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