I think it’s ME, I get bored quickly

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So seriously this isn’t about wow or any other game I actually think it’s me. I’m not “a gamer,” like I used to be anyone else feel the same?

To be specific wow released charged delves, etc this week and my other online game, Dead by daylight, released springtrap from FNAF as their newest killer on Tuesday.

I told me wife I’d be unavailable for discussions and up late for days with all this new content… by Wednesday I was like… MEH this is cool but it’s not anything groundbreaking.

Like I started saying, neither game is doing anything wrong, maybe I’m just at a point where my hype doesn’t match my actual feelings upon release.

Who’s with me?

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Nobody. Find a new hobby. There are plenty that can keep you inside like wow. I started writing a book two days ago. Never wrote before, it’s been going…interesting.

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That sounds cool, I’ve always thought about writing a book I hope yours goes well!!!

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It’s ok to not share the same excitement, and not want to do as much or even take a break if needed. Sometimes less is more.

Enjoy what you want, being happy is always the most important and your wife will get that.

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I could write a lengthy essay, but safe to say I’m not 20 anymore. Life has happened. I prioritize other things over games now. Plus, I’m old enough to see games I once played disappear into oblivion when the servers shut down.

Here today; gone tomorrow. Enjoy the pixels, keep the memories. I write in journals, word documents and epic poems. I have a large black safe full of them. CDs, floppies, and HDDs

:crab: :milky_way: :crab: :milky_way:

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I am learning blender with the ultimate goal of making some sort of video and I love this, so far I’m great at making mistakes

I just read the manual page on bevel and now I am a bevel machine. Except I don’t know how to get back to select that cube I think I’m in the wrong mode

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Wow alway been boring i reammber i play other game beside wow, i reammber i quit wow for other game and made friends

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I do different things, keeps me from getting bored on one specifically.

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I mean, so do I…but that’s just the ADHD going into effect…

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For me, I’ve been playing for 20 years and it kind of kills the excitement it once had, but I love those that play other games and enjoy what they offer.

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its just a phase. you will snap out of it. I go through that often. Sometimes another game satiates it for a bit but then I wander for something new. The last game I played that actually felt exciting to me was DOOM: The Dark Ages. However, My first playthrough on Cyberpunk 2077 gave me the same feeling. I made three more characters in Cyberpunk. I will eventually play all their stories. I was going to try Dune however I dont feel like paying 50 dollars for a game right now. TWW is on sale until june 30. I’m going to ride out my alts until then.

I don’t have any good fix for it. It just takes time in my case.

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Been with you for a while. I used to be chronically online a couple of years ago and I had very little direction. Once I got some direction in my life, I wasn’t so concerned with games anymore. But that’s my own personal story. Life has changed.

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I mean, that is true for me, I still love gaming, but just about my first playthrough with them. I struggle hard with repetition, doesn’t matter if it’s with games, or work or what have you, routine always makes me bored incredibly quickly.

However, in my case, it isn’t because I am getting older, because I’m still in my early 20s, but I’ve always been like this, even as a kid my cousin would get mad at me for not finishing games with him on the Ps2 because I always inevitably got bored and wanted to move on to something new.

WoW is the kind of game that I only play when A) there are no new releases nor single player games I am interested in chilling in my backlog or B) when friends are playing.

M+ and going into farm mode in Raids is just about the most “anti-me” gameplay loop possible, it’s just doing the same things over and over ad nauseam.

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Eh.

You’re talking about a micropatch in WoW that has 1 questline and has you doing Delves you’ve always done but with some more mobs in them.

And 1 extra character in DBD, which will be doing the exact same things you always do in DBD. (This is more notable than a WoW micropatch, but still)

I don’t see these as things to get super hyped over to begin with. They’re relatively minor.
They’re not new expansions or sequels or overhauls or new maps or whatever.

So being “done” with them within a week seems totally within reason.

That said, the general sentiment isn’t crazy.

I’ve gone through several periods where I just can’t find the fun, in any game.

Typically it just takes a relatively short break, or something new releasing that I actually care about, to bring things back to normal. Or even just purposefully approaching the games I already play differently (ie: during Dragonflight when I otherwise lost all interest after Season 1, I picked up twinking and killed basically the next year of WoW with just that, followed by a few months of pushing Holy Priest as a DPS spec in Season 4, which worked insanely well, but sadly doesn’t hold up in TWW. Might try again in the final season to see if it just works better with inflated stats).

But I’m me. You’re you. If you’re not getting enjoyment out of your gaming, you can try to switch things up, but if it’s not working, there’s no point in forcing it. Step away for a bit. Binge some shows. Work on another hobby. Poke in here and there to see if something seems fun and if it’s not stay away. As a gamer, obviously the ideal situation is you step back and then find a spark again in a few weeks or a couple months and come back full force, but there’s no guarantee that happens.

Try Expedition 33 btw. Haven’t had an experience like that in gaming in a LONG time. If you don’t hate it, it’ll probably kill 30-40 hours /played minimum. Longer if you grind or do optional content or NG+.

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Are you sure it’s “quickly”? How many hours a day do you play wow? If you’re anything like a lot of people here I’m guessing it’s at least an average of 4 hours a day. What I’m getting at is that it’s difficult for any video game to keep someone’s attention that long…day after day…year after year.

I personally don’t get bored, but I distribute my attention between wow, piano, coding, and chess…and there just isn’t enough hours in the day for them all while balancing other responsibilities…and I also tend to take long wow breaks (year+) between playing.

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After putting 1000 hours into Valheim I got V Rising about a week ago. I’m addicted. I’ve not logged into wow since like the 13th. I probably should unsub but I may try to get a few of those HD tier 2 recolors.

There’s only a select few S3 sets that I think are worth it (looking at you pally) so not sure if I want to grind a few out or not. May just get some T2 recolors and call it for a while.

I’ll probably be playing V Rising for the next few months.

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It’s an old game that has little competition. Design has become increasingly formulaic.

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Not a bandwagon I’m jumping on but I’ll put up some banners and streamers as you pass.

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Game burnt is normal and it’s ok to take breaks from the game.

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Dude, yes… I find at times things are super boring… I blame not having a static group… But then again… I think people are just too shy… I mean, I’m shy but not that shy. And don’t listen to the naysayers saying you have tyo think differently to prove your point. Sorry, not sorry :slight_smile: