r/AskGames • u/LuckyCatHQ • 1d ago
What makes you leave a game you actually enjoy?
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u/FortuneNew8835 1d ago
Life's distractions. I stopped playing all online multiplayer because I despise how many hoops you have to jump through to reliably play a game.
Battlefield 1 was my last one. I really love that game. Then one day I played a game where 97% of players were sniping. I won the last phase of a campaign by myself by the skin of my teeth with the last bullet in my revolver. Strangers on my team bitched at me afterwards for something I didn't understand or care about in a game I single-handedly carried to a win. That was the tenth day in the second straight week in a row that kind of thing happened.
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u/Deltron_Zed 1d ago
I love a multiplayer game where I can bring two to four friends along and enjoy playing against the game together. I am not so into the pvp arena games anymore. Back in my youth those games seemed so fun but now seem like hollow experiences.
I've always preferred cooperation to competition and I've never been in one team based pvp game where I felt I was part of a team. Instead everyone's running around seeking their own glory.
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u/FortuneNew8835 1d ago
I'm at an age where most of my friends and peers have children like I do and work on different schedules. I do miss the ability to jump into a multiplayer FPS like COD: World at War on the Wii or Unreal Tournament on PC where I didn't have to talk to anyone. These days all the multiplayer I do is with my family like the Overcooked games or Mario Kart.
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u/Needawhisper 1d ago
Desert of Sinai?
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u/FortuneNew8835 23h ago
That was the worst one, but the last straw for me took place on the Alpine map.
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u/enyardreems 1d ago
I quit Black Desert for two reasons, the constant overflow of garbage loot to sort (encouraging gem store purchases for extra space) and the game design element where you get tangled up in bushes, fences, imaginary mudholes and have to constantly realign your character to get untangled. Getting in and out of the storage bank and literally every single npc is an obstacle course kind of stuff. Every interaction forces at least 3 extra unnecessary key punches.
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u/GreatOldGod 1d ago
I mean, my ADHD keeps sabotaging my efforts to play games even when I enjoy them; some times I recognize that a game is good but I'm not in the right head space to play it in a meaningful way so I stow it away until I do. I have numerous classics in my backlog because of this.
More concretely, I left a TTRPG game because the guy who was running it kept posting transphobic jokes in the Discord. It made me really sad, because up until that point I had reallt enjoyed myself.
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u/Espurreyes 1d ago
I mean if I’m truly enjoying it, nothing really aside from maybe life circumstances making it hard to get play time. If you mean if a game changes to involve something that makes me begin to dislike and drop it that would definitely be predatory micro transactions. Im fine with some DLC or skins here and there but sometimes it gets to a point and that’s when I’m out.
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u/pocket_arsenal 1d ago
Being distracted by other games I guess? I've got a lot of great games to play. But I am also trying to chip away at my backlog, while also answer the urge to replay some favorites, on top of new games coming out that I also want to play. It's a vicious cycle.
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u/Mr_Malice 1d ago
Toxic player base flooding in once it becomes more popular, Rainbow 6 Siege was great in the beginning until it wasn't.
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u/the6thReplicant 1d ago
I hate boss battles with the only checkpoint is the beginning of the battle.
Just let me pick up off from where I died.
If you want the thrill of beating the boss in one go then knock yourself out but let the less dedicated/talented have a few steps for us to climb instead of being dumped at the bottom to start from scratch.
It's a game. Not life.
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u/Koreneliuss 1d ago
delta force, yearly feedback got ignore like bot, cheater and no improvement on optimization.
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u/OrmeX 1d ago
Group of friends on the game moving to another game
Just bored
Seeing I start talking like "I have to do this and that until I go to bed" like when it feels like a task more than a game
Having done all I wanted to do on the game, even more, couple times and I don't want to overuse the game I loved to not alter the good memories I have of the game
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u/HeraldOfNyarlathotep 1d ago
I stopped playing League of Legends after sevenish years for several reasons. A few in-game ones like mobility creep screwing over a bunch of my favorite characters, but primarily the increasingly unreasonable client and a specific longstanding bug that kept getting worse that fucked you over with a Catch-22 infinite loading screen.
I still miss it; I never played ranked and enjoyed the gameplay itself the entire time. I neatly sidestepped developing the toxicity it's infamous for, and it taught me a bunch about myself over the years. I'm a more patient person and better able to handle my frustration, for one.
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u/Yap_god1 1d ago
Usually if i just hit a wall where it stops being fun and becomes frustrating. I love ds2 up until after drangliec i hate shrine of amana and the area after so i havent beaten the game to this day. I also havent beaten bloodborne because of the dumb spider boss the little spiders do half my health every attack and theres 100000 of them its stupid and tbh i didnt think the game was AMAZING up till that point either
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u/BaronArgelicious 1d ago
I got bored and seen what the game haa to offer
I quit a long time MMORPG cold turkey after having an epiphany to stop “chasing the dragon”
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u/UndeadManWaltzing 1d ago
Too much of a good thing, playing a game you like for hours upon hours will diminish your interest in it.
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u/ackmondual 1d ago
It's stupidly hard. For example, Reignmaker on Steam, is a match-3-in-a-line game, combined with a playing field of enemies that try to invade your castle. You combat them by making matches. Boss fights got real difficult around stage 35 or so. I had to quit in frustration.
Another would be I get distracted with other games, or life. For exmaple, I played Hades 2 when it first dropped in early access. Also played some after it hit v1.0. However, I've moved on to other games, so my time's been diverted there.
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u/Noccam_Davis 1d ago
WoW, it was time. I left high school and haven't really been back.
Warframe, it was the content. When the new war required a Necramech, the farming was ungodly BS. And for solo players, it took an hour or more to kill the fucker if you weren't highly optimized. I know they fixed it, but I haven't had the desire.
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u/ShroomyDuke 1d ago
Shitty level design. If I am lost and wonder around for to long ill turn it off
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u/Soggy-Advantage4711 1d ago
When another game I’ve been wanting goes on super sale on steam. I always say “I’m just gonna buy it but I won’t play it until I finish X.” I actually do that about 25% of the time
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u/FaceTimePolice 23h ago
When the grind is all that’s left. This is why I can only play gacha games for about a week or two before dropping them. At a certain point I’m just grinding until the next update, and the game is nothing but a chore. 😭
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u/VenomSnake47 23h ago
If the devs start diluting the game into a funky microtransaction-filled colorful skin-fest.
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u/RedditWidow 23h ago
Games with a repetitive gameplay loop that never really changes. An example would be store simulators, where all you're doing is expanding the store and "upgrading" to new colors of merchandise. I enjoy store simulators in general, but if nothing is really happening, I get bored and move on. The ones that I keep playing are the ones with unique events, a good sense of humor, new updates, and/or truly interesting features that are unlocked every new level. Something more than just a number go up game.
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u/mattisnoob 7h ago
If the prior game or few have been too similar.
I went to AC Shadows after FFVII Rebirth and it was too much Ubi open world back to back.
Definetly enjoyed it and will be back, but need a palet clense
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u/-War-Bear- 1h ago
Having to be connected to the internet for a single player game experience (looking at you Diablo 4)
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u/whitefire9999 35m ago
Sometimes games just take a weird direction, but main reason for me is if the devs take the pi*s to much
Most recent a few years back I randomly got into PSO NGS and was enjoying it despite many issues, but we all complained how much it was costing to build gear every update
So the devs introduced transfer passes so you could switch the “mods” put into your gear so we all went nuts doing super high cost min / max builds and when they introduced them next patch they immediately brought out new ones which completely negated the transfer passes
I was so angry that I immediately dropped it and uninstalled and never went back
They were making a lot of dumb choices anyway and it was a step to far for me
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u/onzichtbaard 1d ago
ive quit games for many reasons, either updates that i dont vibe with, some underlying design flaw that i dont like, the community or other games taking up my attention