Why do some people say they "grew out of gaming"?

[Clumsybeast]

I don't understand why people say this tbh. I am 35 years old, and been playing games since i was 7 or 8 years old. I am still very much into gaming, even though i dont have as much time to play as i did back then ofc. This claim makes it seem as if gaming is only for kids, when the average age of a gamer is 34. It gets annoying when i hear it. I understand some people move to different hobbies sometimes, but it doesnt mean you "grew out of" anything.

[Silverlight]

I grew out of story-focused games because a lot of the narratives are amateur or written for edgy teens.
I still love mechanic based games like Kenshi, Minecraft, Factorio or online shooters though.

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Silverlight の投稿を引用：

I grew out of story-focused games because a lot of the narratives are amateur or written for edgy teens.
I still love mechanic based games like Kenshi, Minecraft, Factorio or online shooters though.

Same. But still like mystery detective kinds of stories

[LexAnimex]

Beats me
I will never grow out of gaming. Kingdom Hearts released on Steam and I have the best time of my year with this series.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

WarHeRo の投稿を引用：

some ppl get adulted

They grow out of gaming because of adultery?

[Li77lehorn]

When I was about 18 one of my best friends would actually stand away from the games section in the store because he was embarrassed(he felt too old for gaming). So I would buy the games and we'd play them at my place. He eventually bought his own pc to lan DOOM, but wouldn't be seen dead buying it. lol He was always like that with everything though, and it was different back then to what gaming is now.

Anyway I had a grandfather who's main hobby was computers. He gave me copies of all his c64 games years before DOOM. So gaming was never a childish or shameful thing. My grandfather would get all the latest gear, like using the c64 to make phone calls(which I thought was wild back then). So I grew up with that in mind. And I don't think I would 'grow out of gaming' because I like seeing how gaming and graphics evolve.

[Sigma957]

Maybe they can't fit in their gaming chair anymore (too much fast food).

[Netaris]

Because a lot of peoples associate games or animes with kid's activities and saying they've growed out of those is their way to say : "I'm a valuable hardworking adult but I'll brand in a not-so-subbtle other way".

You can do what you want at the age you want. Because being an adult for real isn't about that anyway. What really define an adult compared to a child, psychologically, is the ability to make choices. And well, if your choice is to continue to play some games, who care ?

[SvarogX]

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Franz の投稿を引用：

If you are older than both combined, then you are dealing with a different kind of boomer.

I'm 50 and my folks are in their 70s. Everything I said is true.

I have no idea why me talking about my boomer parents is so triggering for you. I'm not about to start casting doubt about you saying you game less to spend time with your family. Why are you challenging me on something so inane and trivial? Who would lie about that?

The fact that you feel offended and attacked by what I have said, says a lot about you.

[Grim Reaper]

Probably some sort of insecurity, if they didn't feel the need to put themselves above others than they wouldn't say they "grew out of it" rather they would simply say they moved on from gaming. That or it's just not wording it properly.

Unfortunately gaming isn't a hobby that is generally respected by people who don't play video games, fortunately a lot of people play video games nowadays.

[Duck Twacy]

OldBeast の投稿を引用：

I don't understand why people say this tbh. I am 35 years old, and been playing games since i was 7 or 8 years old. I am still very much into gaming, even though i dont have as much time to play as i did back then ofc. This claim makes it seem as if gaming is only for kids, when the average age of a gamer is 34. It gets annoying when i hear it. I understand some people move to different hobbies sometimes, but it doesnt mean you "grew out of" anything.

It depends on the game. The Joint Chiefs of Staff typically war game, but they don't play Age of Empires nor Star Craft, but things or games that are far more sophisticated.

People put down hobbies for all kinds of reasons.

Mind is because my idiotic mother is dumber than dirt, and the people she deals with do exactly what the JCS does.

[Plaid]

Sigma957 の投稿を引用：

Maybe they can't fit in their gaming chair anymore (too much fast food).

hehe

[Delta]

It depends on the person.

I can't imagine my dad playing video games. He's too mature for that.

That's not to say that all gamers are immature.

[Clumsybeast]

Gr_nd "Juror #462" Ay_t_oll_h の投稿を引用：

i didnt grow out of it. but it started to become pointless around 25, 27, i just keep dying.

video game skills is the first thing you lose. enjoy it while you can.

Im 35 and still decent. lol Tho i mostly play single player stuff.

[Top Cat]

LexAnimex の投稿を引用：

Beats me
I will never grow out of gaming. Kingdom Hearts released on Steam and I have the best time of my year with this series.

Ah the voice of naivete

[Dutchgamer1982]

well I understand it...
I am 42.. and have been gaming for most of that.. but well lets say..

1 I always valued real life activities more.. I just did not always HAVE them.. if you ask me to play a boardgame together or a pc game.. well than the boardgame wins.. if you ask me.. to go on a hike in the woods.. or make a fire.. well many such activities I vastly prefer over wasting away behind a screen..

but... I really hate doing things "alone" basicly to have experiences that I cannot share.. so for lack of enough people willing to do things with me.. or do the things I like... I spend a lot of time being the pc..

I always expected that one day I would have a wife and kids and retire from my gaming days as they would eat the time that a job would not.. and well while I don't have them now If I am blessed ans still get them.. I fully expect that to still happen... oh sure gaming may not COMPLETELY go away.. but it be more a thing you do 30 minutes a week instead of 40 hours..

but even gaming alone as lost it's shine.. for well as friendships on average last 10 years... basicly nobody I know today.. thats not family knew me when I was 20.. and very few knew me when i was 30... and well of those new people.. they are just not the gamer types as the friends I had in the 90s...


in the 90s there were fysical lanparties.. where we went too.. not just incidental but like almost every week we would drag our computers to the house of 1 person and game all weekend.. the very rts and rpg titles that I love..

and even when not doing that.. with them all playing the same games.. you would talk about those games each time you saw eachother.. playing morrowind.. you would share what things you discovered today....

all of that is gone... nobody in know irl i would consider anymore "a real gamer" and those that do play are often much younger.. I have tried getting them into the games and genres I love.. but well it just does not stick.. they keep wasting hours in stupid racing, shooters and zombie games I really never cared for at all.. and IF they are into strategy.,. I cannot drag them to play c&c red alert 2.. if my life depends on it..


so there is NO shared experience anymore.. either.. all there is is me alone.. and my own mind... at that point... it has kind of lost is shimmer..

and even the industry.. where originally computers were rare like in my highschool only like 1 in 30 kids had one at home.. printed papers what was that? email? the internet was not even around... gaming was a hobby for a select type of hyperinteligent geek.. it was certainly not mainstream.. and the strategy aka tbs and rts genre I loved most.. was evem more so shared by a very loyal but speciffic type..

but exactly that kind of game.. is no longer being made.. releases of new titles.. are far and few.. and much worse in quality than what was..
causuals have taken over.. and this has killed genres that were always already niche.. and what survived was dumbed down to make more apealing to this general audience..

which explains why basicly I just keep playing the same games I have been playing since the 90s over and over... only if I had people to play with.. and I mean real people not some onlien rando's.. thats just not doing it for me..

I want to be fysically in the same room with them.. as we used to at lan parties...

so basicly
**family life and work are more enjoyable than gaming.. so your hours get less
**gaming changes.. as does the general audience.. so you find nobody of the current gaming audience still likes what you still like.

without sharing.. it quickly becomes only a coping mechaning until something better in life comes along.. instead of something you still actually enjoyed as you once did.