Observations On Quiting.

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LuckyDwarf

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Observations On Quiting.

This thread is to address a common action called quiting. Time and time again people leave threads saying that they are leaving the game, only to return at a later time, usually regretting it and letting everyone know how they gave in to their addictions. Addiction from a game? Please.. there is no such thing as being addicted to a game, you merely find it entertaining, which is very understandable--it is a good game--but that is all it is.

Quiting. Another stupid philosophy. There are much better ways to stop playing. Announcing that you are leaving and dropping it cold turkey only makes you want to play it more in the long run. The best way to stop playing the game is to either find another interest to replace it, or to just play less and less each week. I mean, until today I did not get on in three days. I did not quit, I just do not play as much any more. It is not because I do not have enough time either. It is a really ignorant thing to say you quit something that entertains you.. it is like quiting music. These things are not jobs.

Lucky
 
Quitter!

Well, I totally agree. It was like giving up eating for me.

See, I'm 31, single, and have no responsibilities other than work. I've been into RPGs since I was a teen, starting with D&D, worked towards the computer with Bard's Tale and D&D, and then onward towards Diablo. Geek? Hardly. I'm just extremely entertained with an alternate universe where you can shed your reality for a little while. It's not really a game or a passtime for me, it's a universe all in itself that I get to explore and conquer.

Anyone ever wonder why I know about every single factoid and crap? Yep, I study the manuals and have a book (well, three of them) of notes and printouts that I've made over the years. Call me Dungeon Master please.

A day without Diablo is a day without sunshine. I think I'm gonna be here a good long while more.
 
I agree. I wish people wouldn't post "quitting" threads. As you said most people come back sooner or later.

In my opinion this makes them look a bit silly. And this is increased when they go out with a massive rant about how they've just realised that this game is a waste of time and a blah blah moan and oh the realms are totally full of hacks and idiots. And then finishing off by telling everyone who plays it to get a life. It's as if they've only just realised this. This realisation usually comes in a flash of inspired genius just after their favourite character has died, losing all their l337 itamz.

But really, if you do want to stop playing this game you've got to stop coming to these forums. It just makes you think about the game and that makes you want to try one more char and then you get back into it.

LOVE FROM LEPER

Edit: I may have been a bit harsh there. Obivously not every quit thread is like that, but i've read qutie afew that are, and they seriously wind me up.
 
i quit.. didnt play for 2 month.. reinstalled, played for 5 days and realized that the game sux and uninstalled again :)

//Johnny
 
evils said:
i quit.. didnt play for 2 month.. reinstalled, played for 5 days and realized that the game sux and uninstalled again :)

//Johnny
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yip, thats why you still come here...

IMHO you dont quit until you totally quit and stop involving yourself in anything to do with the game.

as long as you keep coming to these forums diablo WILL have an influence over you and you will be drawn back. ^_^

i persoanlly always get sick of my games, i play 2 of them. when i get bored of SFC3 i come back to diablo until this bores me, its a regular cycle of about 3-5 month intervals. been like that ever since ive played games

Leper said:
This realisation usually comes in a flash of inspired genius just after their favourite character has died, losing all their l337 itamz.
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what 1337 itambz? i guess thats why i can keep playing PvM, i dont nearely have everything so there is still more to do :)
 
I have never quit; and probably will, like Connor, be here for some time yet.

Only things that have stopped me in the past have been:
1. Moving to the UK for 6 months (luckily I brought my laptop and 1 CD over with me - just logged back in time to save my accounts from 3 month destruction).
2. Wife banning me.

If I didn't read these forums I probably wouldn't play as much. All these ppl coming up with exciting builds to play, and new dueling possibilities...

The good thing about being 30 is that I've been through school, uni etc and now have a lot of time (while not working) to do things I like.

I realize though, that diablo2 has taken over a large chunk of my brain - must be the soulstone - because at work, when I have to type something in relating to something such as football or ball etc, I instantly type footbaal or baal instead, and have to backspace.
 
Good points. I too find it a bit strange that so many feel the needs to come here and show everyone they are quitting. One reason would be that they want all the "NOOOOO Don'T GOOO" and "You have been a great addition to this community and it hurt that bleh bleh...". Makes them feel special. Now, everyone want to feel special, me too, but not to this "price". It's sort of humiliating I think. Each to his own though :)

Anyone remember the *** goth chick? She quit like three times (each with a vengeance). That's nothing but attention whoring. I'll probably quit soon too. I won't do a lengthy, highly authored and edited thread about it though.
 
BaNiSeR said:
yip, thats why you still come here...

IMHO you dont quit until you totally quit and stop involving yourself in anything to do with the game.

as long as you keep coming to these forums diablo WILL have an influence over you and you will be drawn back. ^_^

i persoanlly always get sick of my games, i play 2 of them. when i get bored of SFC3 i come back to diablo until this bores me, its a regular cycle of about 3-5 month intervals. been like that ever since ive played games



what 1337 itambz? i guess thats why i can keep playing PvM, i dont nearely have everything so there is still more to do :)
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Wrong.. i come to this forum mostly because i have alot of people i like to call my "friends" here. and i'm in no way drawn to diablo2.. there was a time when i could read a character guide and be like "whoaa, i gotta build one of those" but i dont react like that anymore.. these days im more like "ok, hope it works out for him" ;)

i've had my moments of "damn im bored.. maybe i should nistall d2 to kill some time" (because thats exactly what it is, something that kills my time ;)) and in the end i always decide that diablo2 is WAY to boring to actually be used as a time consumer, so i end up installing something else..

//Johnny
 
My opinion (sorry if it seems a bit offensive)

It’s funny sometimes how we make excuses to keep playing.
When the game had just came out I had played it for 2 years (referring to it as wasting my time). That was an excitement of a new virtual experience. I stopped only after I found a good replacement.

And here we go again – I resumed. This time my excuse is that I’m 19 at the moment and as soon as I turn 20 I’ll stop. Because 19 is a teen age and we should do things we want now rather that later blah blah…

Another one is a feeling of achievement. You make a high-level character (HC only!) or find a godly item – you feel successful.

Question is: why stop playing at all?

Well, people say that this is waste of time and I agree. Not for everyone though; if you chocked yourself in a flat, have no responsibilities and no definite future it may be right thing for you to do.

I found another answer to this question when I went to a game shop and the type of people who buy computer games terrified me. Remember song “Lazy†by Xpress2? Remember the video? That fat, lazy guy who couldn’t even move. These sort of gamers were in the shop. Although they might be good gamers, they are losers in real life.


Tell me people, when it comes to “fun play� Is it starting your character from scratch or playing on nightmare and hunting for good items?
 
erm ...

i'm not real sure why i play or quit-
i'm pretty sucky at the self-analysis type thingy
i've had long breaks before, and i'm at what feels like the beginning of another 'break' at the moment ...
i have no idea how long i have until my goobers 'expire' from a reason other than my killing them :p
anyways, i play when i want to, and when i don't feel like playing ... well, i don't :surprise:
if my goobers expire, it won't be anything new- i've lost everything i've had like 3 or 4 times already from not logging on for extended periods of time

latah,
lu
 
LMAO Cleg!

Wife banned you? Ewww, that's worse than Blizz banning you. Her TOS must be pretty harsh, no? I can imagine the conversation.
 
ConnerMacleod said:
Quitter!

See, I'm 31, single, and have no responsibilities other than work. I've been into RPGs since I was a teen, starting with D&D, worked towards the computer with Bard's Tale and D&D, and then onward towards Diablo. QUOTE]

Weeee Bard's Tale!!! I got that for my *coughs* 12ish *coughs* Birthday and played it obsessively on my Apple 2e !!! My brother and his friends all played D&D and would only let me play if I snuck them cookies and stuff ... :scratch: methinks they prefered the company of the chocolatey snacks to the whiney little sister... anyway YAY Bard's Tale and chocolate!!!

I can see the thought process in "quitting" though, when I quit smoking I made a big deal of it with my friends and now it would be to embarassing to restart ... no matter how I desire the sweet sweet smokey goodness .... :cheesy:
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I dont know why you guys say that ppl cannot "really" quit.

Im like Johnny here.. I love to come to these boards to chit chat with my long time friends and read all about thier achievements and fun and even sad lossed (poor StarliteSky). I STILL have my disks.. I STILL have D2 installed and I STILL pop on D2 every once in a while.. but let me say that I ONLY log on to D2 for the sole purpose of interacting with my long time friends.. unfortunatly with the dumbest modification ever we call the "lobby" it most likely means I will have to join a game to visit and talk with them. I would be MORE than happy if I were just hanging out and talking in the chat channel like we used to do so many times.

I have found "playing" D2 to be sooo damn boring to me. Ive tried all kinds of crazy builds.. cookie cutters, MFing, off the wall "noob" duelers.. really nasty duelers, pking, pkking... none of it holds my intrest any longer. I only enjoy the company of friends.. so yes I have no interest in "playing" this game any more.. but I will always crave the companionship of friends..
 
I quit... heh I can never quit playing games it is what I do. If I am not playing Diablo II then I am playing something else (Battlefield vietnam :) ). If there is a slight chance that my away message does not say I am playing some game it most likely states "anime is a state of mind" :). There is my post for the week have fun with it.
 
I disagree, I (like johnny) have quit this game. In response to the claim that visiting the forums means you haven't quit: that's not true, especially when you don't even have the game CD's or any intention of getting them again. I quit this game quietly without a "quitting" thread, mainly because there's no need for sympathy from other players. It's your choice to either keep playing or quit for various reasons, and it boils down to that. Definately Lucky got it right that the "quitting" threads are just cries for some acceptance or recognition. I just told the people that I valued as "friends", friends being a broad term since I've never met any of them face to face...I told them I was quitting for valid reasons...none of which anyone would really care for me listing. The only reason why I've come to visit the forums is because I heard some people saying that a bunch of accounts (over 250,000) were banned from the battlenet. I guess none of them were Diablo accounts. I'd say I was quite addicted to this game, and no matter what anyone says, it is possible to be addicted to a silly video game. Perhaps a better term would be "dependant", since many people depend too much on games to fill voids in their free time. Anyway, any replies to this post won't even get back to me since I visit this site maybe...once every two months! Flame me or whatever I won't take offense!
 
this whole thing somewhat confuses me... but i'm (in a way) rather different from most of this forum...

personally, i play d2 not as a waste of time, not as an addiction, not to be with friends, but just as a way to relax and chill out. I've never been a huge rpg or general gaming person- the only games i've played at all regularly are d1, d2, and goldeneye bond... all for the same reason- it's an enjoyable way to chill out for a while, get away from work and other (real world) people.

so sometimes i take time off from d2, mainly because work starts taking more of my time, and the 1st block of free time goes to the woman and friends, where the 2nd (expendable) block goes to d2, guitar, etc etc. So I wouldn't consider it a waste of time, nor an addiction, in any way...
 
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