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Message: [QUOTE="miguk, post: 32566, member: 1510"] There's a number of things that cause us to get burned out on hobbies. For one, being an adult is tiring. Workdays are long for anyone who works full time. Adult responsibilities in general are stressful time vampires. And any hobbies that aren't fully passive take additional energy which we aren't keen on parting with. Then there's the familiarity. We've seen all the cliches of gaming, and so many new games cling to the cliches as a safe investment for their budget. So if it doesn't bring something unique, it doesn't work as well for veteran gamers as for younger gamers who haven't experienced much. Even some of the "new" ideas are unwanted; who wants to blow $60 on a game, only to have to spend $30 more on DLC and online services, only to get chewed out by a 13 year old who should have never had a mic? And we have more interests which are more refined now. Notice you actually like to go food shopping now because you get to find products with "umami" and "organic" written on the box? Or how you sometimes just want to read a good book or even the news? Maybe you've discovered an interest in fashion, or language study, or whatever. The point is, you've lived long enough to know there's more out there, and playing games makes you feel like you are ignoring all that. Of course, there could be other reasons, but those are all likely reasons. [/QUOTE]

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