We've had a good run.

[Bakuryukun]

I will never understand sacrificing social interactions for videogames. Video games are a big part of my life, I love the history behind the medium, I have very broad taste in games in that I like games from all eras and genres. I've been playing since I was old enough to hold a controller. But even for how much I love gaming I would never EVER turn down hanging out with my loved ones just to play a video game. Why a person would even do such a thing just BAFFLES me.

 

[The_Waspman]

Even though you wont be reading this OP (if you really have left), I wish you the best of luck.

I know personally how tough this can be. As someone who wastes entirely too much time doing pointless stuff like gaming and hanging out on internet forums, and obsessing over trophy hunting (Seriously, how many times I tried the speedrun on chapter three of Mirrors Edge?) I empathise. Personally, I'd find it way too tough to delete all my save data (still have that 200 hour save file for Fallout 3. Never ever going to play it again, but deleting that is deleting 200 hours of my life) just like I find it too tough to trade stuff in I like (Well, that and stuff like Heavenly Sword is worth peanuts these days)

But I have gone cold turkey on certain things. Chocolate for example. I gave that up for like, 12 years.

But like I say, good luck, and congrats on purging all that save data.

captcha: that hurts. Yup, yup it would.

 

[El Dwarfio]

Today I realised that I just can't 'game' anymore. I'm 17 years old, in college, with exams around the corner. Exams that could potentially make or break how my life turns out. The thing is, I'm something of a gaming addict. I've been playing games since I was about 5, and they're more than a hobby for me now. While I've thought I was enjoying myself, I've been putting life on hold. I've never revised for an exam, because games were far too time consuming and enjoyable. I've turned down dates to keep playing Mass Effect, and I've not gone out with friends because I had one last boss to beat. Today, I decided to pack it all in.

Lol, you're hardly the first person to say this and I guarantee it doesn't last.

So many 16/17 year old these days who think they're lives are hard, I can tell you, it certainly doesn't get any easier.

So maybe you need to re-evaluate your life if you're that obsessed with games, but if you can't do that without cutting gaming out completely then more fool you I guess.

I'm gonna keep having fun, being professional, earning a living and gaming just as always

 

[kasperbbs]

Sounds more like youre quitting drugs.. Since i started working i only spend 6-10 hours on games per week, i could easily add more to that, but there simply arent any new releases to my liking. I don't understand why you have to quit something you like completely, unless you are the "one more turn.." type, who keeps playing without realising that its already 2 am (damn you civ5!).

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

*sniff* I'm literally about to cry. Even though I don't know this chap.

Farewell, StarStruckStrumpets. I may have never known you, but I'll feel the void your leaving, since there'll be one less person making jokes and discussing around here. Or at least I will for a week or so, but still.

Shame, though. Just giving up on a passion... and you know? StarStruck could've persued a career in game development or design or the related fields. He didn't. As much as a hell that the field can be, this chap might've been cut out for it. He could've continued gaming, too.

But if gaming REALLY ate up THAT much of his time (giving up on social encounters to game), perhaps this was for the best.

So, goodbye, good sir. Happy voyages.

...

I want your Dreamcast.

 

[MasterOfHisOwnDomain]

You can continue to game and have a life. People smoke lots of weed and continue to have a life. People have illicit affairs and continue to have a life. You just have to find ways to manage your time ... and destroy any evidence that you're not doing important things.

 

[Kouen]

Well, See ya later dude

 

[Substitute Troll]

"Oh no, I'm doing something fun instead of doing what I'm supposed to be doing. Well, I should just stop doing fun things all together since I am unable to discipline myself!"

 

[lettucethesallad]

I go to a school that requires that I spend at least 40 hours/week in the workspace. I still have time to game, and I'm 23. No need to be so dramatic about it, and no need to stop cold turkey at all. Just cut down, things will work out.

 

[strangemoose]

your going to regret deleting all of those things in a couple of years when your life has slowed down a bit

 

[Scarim Coral]

That seen rather hash/ extreme but I assume you simply didn't had any self control nor did you find the right balance between gaming and doing non gaming activity?
Either way good luck I guess or are you even checking/ visiting on here despite not gaming?

 

[Something Amyss]

If he's going to stop gaming entirely, then the save files aren't especially useful to him, are they? What's the point of keeping them? They'd just be a temptation to play again so he can revisit his past glories.

And now, if he changes his mind, he's basically destroyed all that "work."

If he's that tempted by gaming, I think he needs more than save file deletion. In fact, if this is REALLY a problem for him, the save file deletion will be rather superfluous.

 

[CrashBang]

Wow, does quitting/cutting back on gaming really have to go hand-in-hand with deleting all of your save data?! That seems a little silly but all right, if you found it liberating then, uh, cool!

 

[Total LOLige]

Couldn't you just wind down the number of hours you spend gaming?? It's what I did when I came to university. Play about 10 hours a week max now. Anyway, good luck with the exams and all. (I've actually been lurking on this site for years, just never made an account, so I've actually seen you around)

The thing is he's describing a perfect case of addiction. Gaming addiction is the same as all other forms of addiction. If you don't cut it out of your life, after a while the problem returns to its original state. You don't ask a heroin addict to "just cut down how much heroin you do," you tell them to knock it off.

That's different. Heroin is a harmful drug. Gaming, in and of itself, isn't harmful.

Playing too much video games could lead to many health problems, I'd say it isn't harmful if you play in moderation.

OT: Farewell, hero!

 

[JimB]

If he's that tempted by gaming, I think he needs more than save file deletion. In fact, if this is REALLY a problem for him, the save file deletion will be rather superfluous.

Then wouldn't leaving them in place also be superfluous?

 

[ryanthemadman]

whoop de doo basil

 

[Forgetitnow344]

Or you could just do it in moderation like an adult.

I hate these kids who think that just because they're in a university or something, they're all grown up. Being educated doesn't mean being experienced. You'll be back in no time. Instead of just giving up a hobby like gaming, you could just use it to fill time... Like a hobby is supposed to be.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

Well... good luck. I hope you find some way to balance things once you're out the other end od exams. Your willpower is stronger than mine that's for sure (mind you I've never turned down a date for gaming. I think even I'd admit to having a problem at that point).

 

[TheMagicLemur]

Couldn't you just wind down the number of hours you spend gaming?? It's what I did when I came to university. Play about 10 hours a week max now. Anyway, good luck with the exams and all. (I've actually been lurking on this site for years, just never made an account, so I've actually seen you around)

But that's not nearly dramatic enough. Ah, to be a teenager again...

 

[TheMagicLemur]

The thing is he's describing a perfect case of addiction. Gaming addiction is the same as all other forms of addiction. If you don't cut it out of your life, after a while the problem returns to its original state. You don't ask a heroin addict to "just cut down how much heroin you do," you tell them to knock it off.

Good luck and hope to have you back into gaming in the future.

Eh, there is actually a difference between process addiction (compulsion) and chemical addiction. If he feels he needs to do this, that's fine, but I think he's being a touch dramatic. Which, as I implied, isn't really surprising, given that he's 17, and almost EVERY human being from the ages of 12-21 was, is, and will be very overly dramatic; it just comes naturally in that age bracket.