Thread 717912748

At what age did you grow out of competitive gaming?

Was never really into competitive playing. But I guess I was around 16-17 when I stopped playing online games because everyone else did too so had no one to play with anyways

>>717912748 (OP)
Valid crashout. Now let's wank off hackers.

>>717912748 (OP)
12 when my friend with Xbox live moved away.
Without him to get me grinding Halo with him I just played JRPGs and still do.

>>717912748 (OP)
I never grew into competitive gaming. I'm not gay.

>>717912748 (OP)
Never went trough it when i was 17 we didn't have internet.

>>717912748 (OP)
Got good at something with actual value (MechEng). Functional adults understand that games are supposed to be fun little sideshows, not life-consuming endeavors.

I was never really into it but early 20s is when I lost interest in online games in general

I "noticed" the patterns of competitive gamers at age 12 and stopped indulging in them, and deleted my WoW account. Then I turned on my Gamecube to replay Wind Waker.

full time job

>>717913468
I was just about to post this.

More accurately: after graduating and getting the first job in my actual field

I like playing "hard" games but always single-player, because they're meant to teach problem-solving (like bullet hells being impossible to beat relying on reaction time, instead forcing the player to memorize patterns).
I was blown away when I saw people doing no-hit runs in ER, I get they're pro streamers but I didn't expect this kind of obsession over a game.

Compgames are sadly the only games I enjoy because I have severe adhd and the thrill of playing against other people just gives me too much dopamine. I lose focus and interest quick so being forced to focus or else get shit on by someone else creates an exhilarating state of mind that other games can't provide. I also like rhythm games.

>>717912748 (OP)
I fucking hate how they shat up all the potential of Siege to appeal to compfags and valorant players
Good riddance that that game mode is dying because of cheaters, but now even casual has cheaters because poobishit can't do ANYTHING right

>>717912748 (OP)
I remember playing Overwatch, I reached a rank high enough for people to start talking in voice chat and talking a lot about our composition, what we could do, how we could move to get them and stuff like that. After that game, I realized it wasn't very fun and it wasn't for me. It wasn't even a bad game, it just wasn't for me.

>>717912748 (OP)
when i started working and didn’t want to spend my little free time being trash talk by a zoomer

>>717912748 (OP)
I didn’t, but I fucking hate ranked modes. I will gladly play some Halo BTB though.

I used to balance my time 50/50 between single player and multiplayer but as the years go by the split has become 100/0
i can't remember the last time I played online

>>717912748 (OP)
one time I was playing overwatch and I encountered an entire team of bots. yes they were botted accounts that deliberately were losing rank by throwing games, they'd just run right in your face and wouldn't attack or use any abilities, and I know it's just me but there was something eerie about it.

anyway, I can't imagine why anyone would want to throw matches like that. it must be some elaborate elo manipulation scheme that I don't understand.

The only way to fully enjoy a competitive multiplayer game is to be a compfag, but being a compfag for a single game is exhausting because it's way more fun to be a variety gamer that plays a bunch of shit all across different genres.

That's why the trick is to wait for a competitive multiplayer game that really interests you, grab it on launch, play it for a month and then run away when only the tryhard sweaties are left.

Incidentally, this is why all competitive multiplayer games are graveyard. There's simple too much choice nowadays. Titanfall 2? Loved it. Played it for 100 hours. Haven't touched it in a decade.

Also, strategist optimization killed everything about competitive game, i remember the old days of dota when you could still try wanky builds like shadow friend magic build or giga tank razor, it was efficient? Hell no, but it was funny as fuck orching a mother fucker and tell killing him with a dagon level 5 as a pudge.

I was never big into comp gaming, I think the one time I did anything even related to it was when I played Titanfall competitively for a little bit and realized they wanted that shit to be a 2nd job and I decided "fuck that shit."
I had a friend who was really into that shit and didn't grow out of it until we hit our late 20s, no idea how he managed to deal with that dogshit for so long.

competitive shit always seems to turn people into rage elementals. i just dont get them, who wants to be mad all the time when playing a game?

>>717912748 (OP)
I wasn't ever into ranking or comp shit, but I guess I stopped playing games "hardcore" the same time I got a job.
I no longer had any interest in raiding every week in WoW for the best gear, or doing all my dailies in Hearthstone or grinding out Legend rank again.

I still played both of those games, and others, just not with the desire to "beat" them (best gear, all items). Thinking about it, both of those games can effectively be made pay-to-win which I could achieve while working, but thankfully I never went down that route either.

>>717914635
Titanfall was also the only game I really, really got into. I'd look up metas, tricks, strats, shit I never really did before.
I dominated nearly every game I played, but in the end I just got burnt out from my hyper-fixation and moved on.

>>717912748 (OP)
Nobody you meet playing comp games seems to be enjoying themselves much. And they have such short tempers. Stopped playing after releasing comp gaming is where fun goes to die