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've found turning the ps4 and starting to be more of a chore. Especially when i have to deal with recruitment and all that just to get an etheric light that i don't need. I have been putting in less and less time each week for a few weeks now. This week is probably less than 2 hours. I won't do the weekly heroic. Have 450 coins and every exotic. No point I will 100% sure quit when the patch hits. I will return in 2 years when the actual sequel is out. Just set your goals and stick to them. Mine seems easy enough, right? Keep the data on the hard drive if you like just toss the disc or sell itif it's even worth any money(i would imagine the trade in is very very low so probably not worth the drive to walmart) Check back in to this thread when the patch rolls out. That'll be the end for you. They WILL have a better game in destiny 2. They will clean house and bring in new devs, fire some old ones (looking at you Johnny boy!) and it'll be a lot better. Good luck man, this is not a game, it's more of an unhealthy addiction.