Quit playing video games

I can’t find a permanent solution. I don’t know what to do. I need to quit soon… I really want to quit but I can’t, so I ended up buying an XBOX360. Finally broke down and bought one. Grrrr! I regret buying one. Got Ninja Gaiden II. It’s such a great game, maybe I just have a thing for ninjas. My only solution is to know play in moderation. I hate my roommates…at the same time I love them…sometimes I wish I was a loner. I can’t find anyone who DOESN’T play videogames. Sometimes I wished I was never introduced to videogames at all. I MUST QUIT! I WILL QUIT! I HAVE TO QUIT! IT MUST BE DONE! I can not relapse…for I sh’all fail…Fail I cannot do…MUST BE DONE!!!! ARghhh..

I have been able to stop playing games for about half a year and then I would start playing it again for about 1-2 weeks, and then decide not to play again etc… Has been like this for years… but I want to stop it once and for all. It just steals time away from my already very tight schedule to get things done. Now I am facing an assignment that I could have been able to meet the deadline, but now it appears impossible because I played game last week. How I wish I have quit it once and for all.

I didn’t really realize it, but it has now been 3 weeks without playing any real video games. I just got busy with everything else; pretty soon I’m going to just delete all the remaining ones off of my computer.

I’m going to need to find a different way to unwind after the end of the day though or (as has happened before when I stopped playing for a couple months) I’ll being to feel like I’m starting to burn out with school and work.

I was an impulsive buyer of video games and realized that I didn’t really enjoy them very much. They are a way to avoid and escape any real fears or hardships in life.

Here’s a great method for quitting. Don’t sell you games and consoles or give them away. Lend them to friends or relatives that you trust (and preferably live an inconvenient distance away) and tell them not to give it back to you for a set period.

With nothing to play in your house you’ll be forced to find other things to do and eventually that urge will fade. You’ll also have to stop reading game magazines because that will get you fiending again. If you go long enough without them you can tell your friends and relatives to borrow them indefinitely and perhaps revisit the system a few years later or not at all.

I know it’s hard right now, especially when a big game like GTA comes out. Stick with it and you’ll be able to change and add balance to your life.

I quit playing computer games about two months ago! I feel like console games are not an issue since I don’t own one of this generation. The difference in me before I quit and after I quit is that I’ve been able to get out more and experience real life in a much greater amount. My friend still plays a lot, and he is not very likely to get out of his room due to world of warcraft, even if it’s to help me go pick up my car in the shop. I really hope he sees the light some day, because he’s missing out on so many things!
Since I quit, I’ve increased the amount of time I read, which I thoroughly enjoy. I’ve learned to dance and ripstik a little better. I’ve also gotten a little better at adobe photoshop. I feel like I can socialize a little better, too. I will admit that real life can be harder to jump right into! It takes effort that the “instant gratification of video games” simply did not require. But it is ultimately more fulfilling, and I’m much happier!
The day I quit, I was playing a game that I didn’t like. It was so boring and not fun that I felt like I had wasted my time. I decided to try to fill the void of that with playing my favorite game. But I no longer had fun playing that either, and I wondered how much time I had wasted over my life playing a game. It actually pissed me off that I had spent so much time playing! So that anger got me a good few days of no playing without any effort. By the time I started feeling withdrawals, I had already lasted long enough that I could deal with them! It is definitely possible to quit because if I can do it after playing for 17 years, anyone can!

Once I got a real job and entered the real world, I soon had no desire to play video games. I played pretty regularly up until age 25 including some on the weekends in graduate school. They’re simply not as much fun anymore. Maybe I’ve just outgrown them and you will too.

I still haven’t quit yet. Yesterday I played a few hours of DODS and CSS. I guess it’s just hard to replace the urge of videogames. I still haven’t found a permanent solution yet but I need to stop playing. Quitting is not easy…

Quitting videogames is quite difficult for me. I mean, I’ve been playing videogames ever since my cousin got an Atari. I’ve played everything from Atari,NES,SNES,Playstation,Nintendo 64,Sega,Sega Saturn,Sega Dreamcast,Playstation 2,XBOX,Game Cube,XBOX360,Playstation 3,Wii,PSP,GBA,GBC,DS, and probably more. But really, how long will I keep playing? I really love the entertainment videogames bring me but I also hate the fact that I waste so much time too. So far I have managed to quit console gaming because I don’t own any of the newest consoles. My last generation consoles were PS2, XBOX, and Game Cube. I don’t own an XBOX360, or a Wii, or a PS3. But I do own a powerful computer and play games on it. As much as I want to quit playing games I just can’t. It’s like a smoker’s urge to jump in and smoke a cigarette because someone else is smoking one. When I see my other roommates and friends here at my college play their XBOX360’s,PS2,PS3, and Wii, I just want to jump right in and play. Thank goodness I don’t own any of these systems. I think I would be stuck playing it all the time. On PC I played MMORPG’s a lot but I recently got over it and quit for good. Now I’m stuck playing FPS games because it’s fast paced and I have nothing to maintain. FPS games are the only games I play now because I don’t want to waste 7 hours playing an MMORPG. But how do I quit playing it too? I mean I have a steam account, I can’t just sell it and I can’t delete it. DirectX10 games are coming out soon and I really want to see what the FPS games in DX10 really offer. I don’t own an DX10 videocard yet but I have a real urge to jump right in and buy one. The only thing that is stopping me is money issues. I would really like one but I would put a huge dent into my wallet if I chose to buy one. Which would really put me in a bad position for college.

Even quitting MMO games I have an urge to jump back in and play City of Heroes again. I always wanted to be a hero or a villain and that’s the only chance I will ever get. I feel like I might relapse and jump right in to play COH again but at the same time it will make a dent in my wallet which stops me from playing. I have a huge dent in my wallet that I have to repair. But it’s hard to quit playing when everyone around me at college owns an XBOX360 or play some kind of videogame. But right now I have an urge to play an FPS…Day of Defeat: Source and Counterstrike: Source….

The urge and satisfaction of just getting “BOOM HEAD SHOTS” or “I PWN” just satisfies my boredness for some reason. It’s just that nothing else other than music really satisfies a bad day I had or fix the boredness in my life. I don’t know how to replace that urge for playing videogames. Until I can figure out what the replacement is I can’t really ever quit. I feel like such a loser wasting my time away playing videogames. I MUST & HAVE to quit FOREVER! It’s just so difficult…I’m going to end up stopping to type and jump in to start STEAM and play a few rounds of DODS or CSS…the other thing that ticks me off is that so many people download illegal stuff through bittorrent here that it makes me lag so bad playing FPS games here that make me want to quit. I guess that is helping me quit videogaming, otherwise it’s just aggravating me to get a better connection to play.

But I can tell you though…quitting….....is VERY HARD. Telling me to quit videogames is like telling a smoker to quit smoking. Videogames is my nicotine as cigarettes are a smoker’s nicotine. So…the quest for quitting has started…at least I hope.

Well, I’ve quit playing games for the most part. It’s healthy, especially if you play for long periods of time. It’s okay to play, you don’t have to necessarily quit. If you do that, you’re always tempted to play again. It’s a matter of control, and that’s important (and very important if you go to Vegas!). Quitting opens up a lot of time. Good luck gamers!

I’m a quick-tempered person. So the easiest thing for me to do is play a video game for a few minutes and then I am calm and as happy as the proverbial clam at high tide.

But then I quit playing. And my life suddenly got boring. x.x

In real like there’s no way you will be attacked by a giant monster that wants to eat you. But in a video game this happens quite often. I’m a video game freak so if I know that I won’t get to kill a giant, simulated monster what am I supposed to do when my computer starts telling me that everything is not responding?

So I quit, but then I started playing again. Only not as much. ^^