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7/19/2015 12:49:27 AM
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Advice on Quiting Destiny
Now this isn't some "I'm sick of Destiny and all it's bullshit!" rant post. I'm honestly thinking of quiting Destiny all together. So why don't I just leave? Because I feel addicted.
For the past 9 or so months, I feel like my life and all my free time has revolved around Destiny. No other video game has consumed so much of my life like Destiny has. It would be one thing if I really enjoyed the game, but half the time I don't, I just find it frustrating.
Recently one of my closest friends, who played Destiny with me a bunch, completely deleted Destiny from his hard drive and confessed that "it was an unhealthy habit". I wasn't in the slighest bit upset. Inatead i felt proud of him, because I agree, it is an unhealthy habit.
Now i'm not sure if I could ever bring my self to delete all my hard work in Destiny. After all; I have this weird philosophy that you should never get rid of proof of labor. And even though it's just a video game, I feel as though I have put a lot of hard work into Destiny. But i'm getting a bit desperate.
I may be asking the wrong group here, but here goes nothing. What advice can you guys give on how to quit Destiny? I've been trying to fill in the gap by playing other video games, but I have nothing new to play, and other games just aren't keeping me quite as entertained (it's like Destiny is crack and other video games just feel like weaker, lesser drugs). When I discovered the Mass Effect series in January of this year (amazing series btw), I felt like I could just enjoy Mass Effect whenever I got frustrated with Destiny. Now that i've beat that trilogy, i've got very little to occupy my free time other than Destiny.
This addiction has got to stop. I have no incentive to play this game anymore, and yet it's all I think about.
Some people may say to "just pace yourself better and play in smaller sessions", but i'm too affraid I'll get sucked in all over again. I never tought that i'd look at "3 days of no Destiny" as a milestone! So what advice can any of y'all give on how I can quit the addiction that is Destiny?
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I have noticed in the forums, and through talking to friends that there is a trend noticing the addictive nature of destiny. I personally was addicted, not to the RNG, or chasing rewards, this game gave me something to do each day with friends, vanguard and crucible bounties became a daily grind for my three characters and endgame content was only a highlighted undertaking on pre-arranged occasions. That said, having hours of repetitive bounties to complete each day kept me busy, and thus became my driving force to play each day. However once that got tedious I simply stopped, I had all the gear, there was no reward I was chasing, in short I had done all I needed to ages ago, so I had to ask myself why I felt I needed to log on each day to complete bounties. The answer was simple, so I stopped playing. Your situation may not be the same, you said you struggled to find other games you enjoy. You have to ask yourself what you enjoy experiencing in games and find one or multiple that tick those boxes for you and your friends. There are numerous games out there with repeatability, ones you can enjoy with friends, you just have to find them. It really all depends what your into. As for should you quit destiny or not, I can only say that Destiny is geared to fill your time and offers only a slot-machines chance of rewards you may or may not want. If you are looking for a game where you can improve your character meaningfully then RPGs are your best bet. If your wanting to shoot thing FPSs are your calling. I quit because of the lack of content and meaningful activities, you have to figure out why you play the game and if your enjoying playing it. Whatever you decide remember, games are made to be enjoyed by their players, if we simply play because we are addicted we are setting a president for future games to be tailored to repetition without content.
