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You simply have no time for gaming<\/h3>\n
You are not a teenager anymore, you simply cannot stay up until the crack of dawn playing games and then sleep for an hour and be as right as rain the next day. You now work a full-time job that fills every minute of the day with some sort of chaos.<\/p>\n
When you get home from said job all you want to do is boot up your PC and play but there is this thing called “adulting” that needs to be done.<\/p>\n
Eating a cooked meal, gyming so you don’t get fatter, and of course, if you have kids, you need to make sure they do the same so they can sit all night and play games like you wish you could.<\/p>\n
Before you know it, midnight has arrived and you realise that if you play something now you will be groggy the whole day tomorrow as chances are one hour will turn into four hours. Off to bed in the hopes of you getting some game time in tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Browsing on the Steam page has become something you regret doing. Yes, we know, back in your day games were a few hundred rands and now you pay over R1k for them.<\/p>\n As you go through all the new games up for pre-order you realise that purchasing one of these games means that your petrol budget is cut in half for that month.<\/p>\n To make matters worse you will need to buy a new graphics card or maybe even upgrade your RAM to make sure that said game looks the best on your PC, but then you realise that maybe you should rather save for that trip to Italy which you have been putting off for years now.<\/p>\n Gaming has become something of an expensive hobby for you now as “adult” things need to be paid for, and there is always something that comes up when you think you have some extra cash for games, it just the way things work now.<\/p>\n Call it a combination of everything in your life like the fact that games cost a month’s petrol budget or the fact that you don’t have time to play them anymore, but you just cannot get excited for games as much as you used to.<\/p>\n Every new game announcement is left with that lingering anxious feeling that you might need to walk to work or get divorced in order for you to actually play the game as much as you hope you could.<\/p>\n Now games are met with this question of “will I ever get to play this?”, or “maybe closer to payday”. Slowly the excitement begins to dwindle into nothingness as you begin to realise that being an adult means you cannot just game due to responsibilities.<\/p>\n As we grow older, our way of dealing with specific things change. Activities which we used to love we now hate, and things which we never used to enjoy become our primary focus.<\/p>\n The truth is the same for gaming as our adult minds start to think as if we would think in real life.<\/p>\n Being an adult means cleaning, cooking, shopping, and all those other terrible tasks, and if we don’t do it properly we only have ourselves to blame.<\/p>\n All these real-life activities then start to slowly influence our gaming as we make sure we complete every task as we would our daily life. Inventories become neater, quests logs become emptier, and we find ourselves really committing to a game before moving onto something new.<\/p>\n Yes, it is not OCD which takes over when we get older, it is the simple fact that you either look after yourself or you get left behind in filth, and the same is then said for our gaming.<\/p>\n Oh, joy, another first person shooter with jet packs and cheap, cheesy dialogue. Now if you had to rewind time you would totally have loved that game back as a teenager.<\/p>\n You and your friends would all get together and LAN it out as you squeal over the chat to older men about their mothers and families. Now, however, you simply cannot stomach the thought that last year’s shooter might be remotely the same as this year’s one.<\/p>\n Another month, another batch of indie games that have all gone back in time and use a retro look…..how original.<\/p>\n FIFA is just another soccer game that has new teams, and let us not forget ridiculous those fighting games are. All you do is spam buttons in hope that you pull off a combo.<\/p>\n As you grow older, things start to become more focused on the things that really matter, a handful of games that remind you of your childhood. Everything else in the world is just the same and lacks any sort of content and replayability.<\/p>\n You now have found a free moment to sit and play games but instead of peace and quiet you are now spammed with chat party invites from your friends who want to go and play Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds.<\/p>\n Now you would much rather sit and enjoy a trip through Witcher 3, but no, you now have to go and deal with salty people online as you try and arrange team tactics after a long day at work.<\/p>\n What started with you enjoying some solo gaming now ends with you have an all-night hate mail conversation with some 7-year old in the US who blames your lag for his death, meanwhile he needs a serious lesson in how to aim.<\/p>\n Foul words are thrown around, you get all heated up and power off your PC in a huff. You then realise just how terrible everyone is online and curse them all. Next time you will rather just log in offline to save yourself from any actual social gaming.<\/p>\n Can you relate to feeling like an old gamer? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":119345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6,3,11681,4],"tags":[2664,24829],"class_list":["post-119325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-nintendo","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-gaming","tag-old-gamers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119347,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119325\/revisions\/119347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n
\nYou realise just how much money you spend on it<\/h3>\n
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\nYou just don’t get excited like you used to<\/h3>\n
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\nYou have become a perfectionist<\/h3>\n
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\nYou feel that everything is the same these days<\/h3>\n
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\nYou start to hate everyone online<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nNow read:\u00a0Takealot adds triple-A games to clearance sale<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"