I've blown my game gasket once (went back to running Shadowrun tabletop games for a year), but since then I've been fine. Â A few tips for avoiding this in your life:
1. Â Find a job you like to do and make sure that's a bigger priority. Â When you get home from a job you've poured your heart and soul into, you enjoy relaxing with a game. Â If you get home and your job you pour your heart and soul into is a game, you'll eventually get burned out on it. Â If you're going to intermittently burnout on something of something, at least make it the thing you get paid to do.
2. Â Have a hobby that isn't a game, practice it regularly. Â I play bass guitar. Â Horribly. Â However, if I sit down at my rig, look at the game, feel like what is in front of me is a horrendously long grind I have no desire to force myself through, I get up and play bass instead. Â When I come back, I often find that I'm looking forward to doing what I dreaded, I just didn't feel like doing it right then and there.
3. Â Have some game variety. Â Even if you feel like playing games, you'll eventually flame out if it's the same thing over and over again. Â I know I play this pretty much every day now, but I can still reactivate and play WoW for when I inevitably feel bored with FFXIV and I play Diablo in the interim. Â Just have other stuff to do that isn't an MMO; MMORPGs have a bad habit of forcing you to have responsibilities to friends, which makes the final tip impossible.
4.  Most importantly, and I say this again and again to people, NEVER EVER EVER PLAY IF YOU AREN'T HAVING FUN! Take a break, do something, do anything, whatever you do don't make a game into a chore.  It will never be fun again.  You might take ten minutes to play a game of pool, come back and everything is absolutely fine.  If you're forcing yourself to play a game, it's no longer a game and it's no longer fun.  Even if it's staring at a wall for an hour that gives you that break, you don't want to be playing a game and not having fun.  That's a good way to ruin all games, nay all your hobbies, for a long time.  You forget what having fun really is.
Just my set of tips. Â Too many MMO players over the years have started taking games a little too seriously. Â That's how you get that touchy person that starts arguing about everything, even if it has nothing to do with him, that starts dampening the fun for anyone.
If anything, better to bow out when you know you're flaming out rather than become that guy.  We all know that guy.  We don't want to be that guy.
So I hope the OP gives his brain a much needed vacation and we see him back soon. Â Totally understand what he means though. Â It's wise to know when you've had enough and you need to dry out a while.
1. Â Find a job you like to do and make sure that's a bigger priority. Â When you get home from a job you've poured your heart and soul into, you enjoy relaxing with a game. Â If you get home and your job you pour your heart and soul into is a game, you'll eventually get burned out on it. Â If you're going to intermittently burnout on something of something, at least make it the thing you get paid to do.
2. Â Have a hobby that isn't a game, practice it regularly. Â I play bass guitar. Â Horribly. Â However, if I sit down at my rig, look at the game, feel like what is in front of me is a horrendously long grind I have no desire to force myself through, I get up and play bass instead. Â When I come back, I often find that I'm looking forward to doing what I dreaded, I just didn't feel like doing it right then and there.
3. Â Have some game variety. Â Even if you feel like playing games, you'll eventually flame out if it's the same thing over and over again. Â I know I play this pretty much every day now, but I can still reactivate and play WoW for when I inevitably feel bored with FFXIV and I play Diablo in the interim. Â Just have other stuff to do that isn't an MMO; MMORPGs have a bad habit of forcing you to have responsibilities to friends, which makes the final tip impossible.
4.  Most importantly, and I say this again and again to people, NEVER EVER EVER PLAY IF YOU AREN'T HAVING FUN! Take a break, do something, do anything, whatever you do don't make a game into a chore.  It will never be fun again.  You might take ten minutes to play a game of pool, come back and everything is absolutely fine.  If you're forcing yourself to play a game, it's no longer a game and it's no longer fun.  Even if it's staring at a wall for an hour that gives you that break, you don't want to be playing a game and not having fun.  That's a good way to ruin all games, nay all your hobbies, for a long time.  You forget what having fun really is.
Just my set of tips. Â Too many MMO players over the years have started taking games a little too seriously. Â That's how you get that touchy person that starts arguing about everything, even if it has nothing to do with him, that starts dampening the fun for anyone.
If anything, better to bow out when you know you're flaming out rather than become that guy.  We all know that guy.  We don't want to be that guy.
So I hope the OP gives his brain a much needed vacation and we see him back soon. Â Totally understand what he means though. Â It's wise to know when you've had enough and you need to dry out a while.
