Something like burnout?

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hey folks,
Ive got a steady job i’ve been working monday-friday plus some weekends and gaming on WoW during my off time and weekends for this past year and finally took some time off for myself this week. Yay!
I figured I was going to get right into the big ol’ dirty session of videogames, stay up late exct exct.
Turns out, on my first official day off work on monday I seem to be already suffering from video-game “burn-out”?
As soon as monday morning rolled around my mind and body were physically fighting me to say away from the computer. Like I just couldnt stomach another second online.
I downloaded the new-world update yesterday thinking that it might just be WoW and played it for a few minutes but same thing. I just couldn’t sit in the computer chair and play videogames anymore.

Im 33 years old now,
friends who I did stuff outside the house with are a distant memory,
I’ve got no girlfriend,
I live alone, no pets.
I’ve got no other hobbies besides WoW.

Im usually fine for the most part, I was looking forward to having this week off to play some extra videogames but thats down the drain, my mind and body wont let me.

Guess I should find some things out around to do? go down by the old creek and throw a rock in, or poke something smelly or gross with a stick? IDK.

Im past the point in my life where “driving around” is fun.
I dont like going to movies in theaters.

anyone with any thoughts on this?

my buddy terry would tell me to go to the gym and lift things up and put them back down. sometimes i think about going to the gym, but like a few other things I just push it under the rug as a “yup, ill get RIGHT on that asap” and then forget about it asap :stuck_out_tongue:

im usually a pvp player and ive hit “the wall” so many times its not even funny.
by “the wall” i mean a snapshot in time where I stare at my monitor and think to myself “im playing the exact same 5-10 maps for YEARS now” and I just cant bring myself to que up and join in on a random battleground because I am tired of walking over the same old ground time and time and time again.

no doubt I need to get out more, change things up a bit, maybe even get a bit of exercise,
but, that dosen’t take away from the fact that this game is well long over due for a few new pvp maps.
thanks for reading,
-Ireadar

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While this is Sadge, these forums can’t help you. But what I would suggest (because I’m in the middle of a WoW hiatus myself), is open yourself up to some Discords and say goofy stuff (MILD trolling) like, “Peanut butter sandwiches for all! No jelly.”

Don’t get me wrong, but when I opened up to some furry servers, it felt good. They’re willing to play with you if you open up. Halo, Call of Duty, WoW, even Fallout 76.

And before you ask, the community on FO76 is a BLAST.

If you’re still just looking to lurk around, the best place is Moonguard Goldshire. As long as you don’t say stupid crap, people will not judge you (for the most part) for giving “the eye” to a Worgen or Panda.

Even if they do, just block em. There are HUNDREDS of people there who want to cuddle a panda.

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Sometimes breaks are necessary, tbh. I wouldn’t worry about it too much

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every now and then i’ll drop in on the occasional twitch and have a chat. sometimes a scatter disc. but i never stay anywhere long for whatever reason, i always quit out

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It sounds like your fairly introverted and that OK (I am myself.) But you still need to balance some socializing or you can start to suffer from depression. I would suggest joining some kind of mega guild and throwing yourself into the community. If you are like me it will burn you out pretty quick but the change in routine can break you out of the staleness/rut we often find ourselves in.

Alternatively try something in the game that you never thought about playing before. Try transmog hunting, some pet battles, raiding, M+, maxing out professions and gathering or hell just go out and try to get reps maxed. Just do something different.

Moo!

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I’m heading toward that time of year where it’s tempting to just sit and play for all my waking hours. Self-employed in a business that really slows down in the winter. Shared custody of a kid who’s getting pretty independant, leaving me with few actual responsibilities some weeks.

Still, for my own mental health, I resist that urge. I “force” myself to go out. Gym, movies, friends, dating, sports, food, comedy clubs. All things that I have to persuade myself to do that I actually wind up really enjoying.

Once you overcome the resistance to going out and doing stuff, you find yourself enjoying life more. You enjoy the game more too, when you give yourself a chance to miss it.

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yeah I hear what you are saying for sure. I think during the year my regular routine of going to work sets me up for having an enjoyable few hours of gameplay at the end of the day and a bit extra on the weekends. I enjoyed my regular “extra” gameplay this past weekend and when it came work time monday morning my mind and body just totally disagreed with playing any more games.
I stood at the end of my driveway and enjoyed a few minutes of the day as 3 different kinds of birds flew overhead, polar opposite skies on both sides of me, lush green and colorful plants all around, a helicopter flew by and went in-between clouds and the thought of "just waiting for someone to come by and ask me “what are you doing!?” “your weird”, “its just not normal to stand in one place and look around”
sometimes i feel so disconnected from the people around me. but ive come to figure out that that’s not always a bad thing. if the people who connect with me have a PROBLEM with me just peacefully standing or sitting and simply observing the world around me then they are the ones with a problem and not me. im just here for the ride.

there was a period in my life for months, if not a full year, where everyone who spoke to me would ask me the same 2 questions:
Are you okay?
and
Whats wrong?

it got to the point where i felt like snapping because there was never anything wrong and I was completley fine but people just kept pushing and asking over and over “whats wrong”

I was sitting in a common room and paused the tv and said to the people around me “id like to have a conversation” the other people immediatley became hostile, calling me crazy and telling me there was something seriously wrong with me. this hurt and stuck with me for a while. a month or so later i brought up the incident to those people and they seem to have absoutley no recollection of the event

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You sound like a cool/chiil dude. You just wanna enjoy your surroundings peacefully but people keep forcing you to act like em, i do understand this very well

I know how you feel. I’m 31 and sometimes i feel just like you.

Maybe trying to do something new involving video-games or social-medias? I don’t know how introverted you may be, but try to create content for the internet, but without making it a chore. Like videos about something you like to talk about?

This very post subject could be a interesting video to watch on, many people would relate to this.

I don’t know, just an idea

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I commiserate with you. Its about having goals. At some point just playing loses its edge.

Im 49, played since vanilla, gym 9 times a week (competed once and want to again) . work and have 2 kids (2 and 4) . I do keys and hardcode classic.

As i get older i find its useful to have goals, things i want to achieve. These things help motivate you. Atm i have a goal for 170kg bench by the end of the year, i want to get back into mythic raiding and i want to get to 60 on hardcore.

These things help drive me. There is an old saying, may all your dreams come true but one, meaning you need something to chase. Find that something.

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I’ve been there. A whole week without kids or spouse. Rather than game, I took about a 100 naps and went down to the dark side of YouTube and TikTok.

You know the one. Where you’re watching political satire via someone dressing up their iguanas.

Then I just doze off listening to my favorite 80s songs but only Lofi or 8 bit.

The week was over. I was like but BUT BUT…what about my game. Now I’m ready to play!

:ocean: :dragon: :ocean: :dragon:

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You need to give some attention to the rest of your life. Video games are great, but if thats ALL you do outside of work of course it will begin to become a slog. I know there are many here who will disagree because they live for WoW…and thats fine. But obviously you dont fit that category. (from what you’ve said)

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I once yelled in Goldshire the whole, “I touch your leg…” and you’d thought I had taken Azeroths name in vain.

It’s actually hard to get things going as you have to fight the 20 trolls already stirring up things. Better to put on PvP mode and start a war. That’ll get them talking lol

:dragon: :ocean: :dragon: :ocean:

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yeah Saangreal bud, that is basically what im doing. throw in a case of beer and a pizza and you got me on spot. nap after nap, just hit the lo-fi stage this morning.
been sleeping to sounds of thunder and rain with the window open at night. soooooo peaceful…

im sure come the day right before I have to go to work i’ll be like
“oh yeahhhhh, my game!”

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Some of my most favorite memories are from the early 2000s.

I had a huge rack of CDs and I must’ve had 50 or more games installed. And I would literally start a game and play it for 10 minutes and then stop.

I didn’t have a job I was in school. I had nothing but time on my hands and a lot of fun games, but I couldn’t enjoy any of them even my friends were playing.

And I would lay on my bed and sleep 12 hours. I actively decided to just get up and go for a walk movie dinner walk around the neighborhood in the dark.

It’s only when I didn’t have time for a game like I had this giant essay to write, and I had to do all these things that suddenly I sit there like man I really like to jump into a death match game on unreal tournament.

It’s not burn out. I want to play, but I just don’t. And then I find myself at work daydreaming about running a dungeon or something.

But interestingly enough when I’m home and not wanting to play my game, I’m not sitting there thinking Gee, I want to be back at work!

:ocean: :dragon: :ocean: :dragon:

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If I am out cutting the grass or taking out the trash, or any other yard work, I make it a point to stop and just take it all in here and there. Wave at people who go by in cars, say hi to the person walking the dog across the street… wave at a neighbor doing their own thing in their yard. Even just that low level connection brings a little bit of comfort.

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if you’re honestly really just honest about this i would not mind having conversations with you about anything if you need a friend to chat with.

though on the same end im apprehensive with ppl on here so im also scared lol but either way you seem like a good person so i hope you find what you need.

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I consider myself to now be on the “other side” of a long and dark path.

Consider this:
If I wrote a book,
with ALL of the terrifyingly disgraceful, hurtful and degrading/gaslighting things that I have witnessed people saying on a daily basis to each-other, and also including myself, in-person and online, leaving out the names of the people involved or when,
ANYBODY who has ANY sense of being a real life human being would also feel hurt and angry and bottled up just from reading the entry.

Everything in the world was completely fine, everyone was happy, fine, everything and everyone everywhere was completely fine.

I took my dark path, on my own, solo.

My dark road unfolded a side to this life that I wish I didn’t see, I wish I wasn’t part of, I wish I didn’t have to deal with on a daily basis, but that is just how the cookie crumbled.

Now, on the other side of my dark road, I feel like my eyes are just opening up to light again, im finally able to see in those dark corners and sometimes, just sometimes, I have to vent out like this, hopefully someone who might read this (probably not the right people) will take a few moments of their time to work on their own attitudes and how they treat and interact with others, especially when on display in a public setting, or when uploading a video to the web, or even chatting online.

side note: my favorite time of year is fall, favorite festival is halloween.
if i dont get out for a good walk in the woods, a good cup of pumpkin spice and pet a good ol dog a few times I will be very upset with myself (if no good-boi doggos available an honest donkey will suffice)

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if you have wc3 the map editor is fun to play around with. tbh its easier to start ideas on paper as the interface is daunting and what you create will most often look like crap if you have no “base” layout drawn elsewhere. It can be an interesting way to gauge your memory of things or try and mimick / improve zones in wow to make them like a bg format.

Its hard to keep interest in a game if you don’t have goals or even reason to have goals. It doesn’t help that playing to just play in a game reliant on other players gets old when your opponents are random and you say goodbye to them as quickly as you said hello. Its very odd in a game like wow where notably even in casual pvp people shed their empathy and act ruthlessly to “win at all costs”, really makes you not want to branch out and socialize when the majority of people will gladly take advantage of a 3v1.

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Don’t ever sit there and add up all the time you spend in queue waiting to do something… I did that and stopped doing queued content for a very, very long time.

Get a part time job at a grocery store or a place where lots of people go. Instead of laundry at home go to the laundry mat. :man_shrugging:

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Wait… you think 3 people killing 1 in a PVP environment is reason not to socialize with them? :face_with_raised_eyebrow: