How much trouble have you been through with gaming?

mkhl · Sep 3, 2016

My last girlfriend actually broke up with me due to gaming. It was actually my fault because I forgot that we had plans and it was her birthday and I was at home playing games. She just went to my place and just broke up with me. Felt really bad but I can laugh about it now.

Blue Betta · Sep 4, 2016

Sorry to hear that, mkhl, but I'd be a bit mad at you, too.

I've gotten in trouble with my parents when I was younger for playing too many games. They hid my Gameboy (the old monochrome one if you're wondering how long ago this was), but I always found it after school and snuck it back into its hiding place before they got home. I think if you can get a good balance of your "social" time with your "gaming" time, everything should be okay.

fcuco · Sep 4, 2016

Dude, you were so into games that you forgot your girlfriend's birthdate? That's not cool at all you probably hurt her feelings pretty badly or you simply did not care about her pretty much to begin with. It is probably not healthy to be this immersed into games to the point where you forget important personal matters like that, if you reach such a point the thing appears to sound more like an addiction and not some escapism entertainment. Look, I confess, a couple of times I also fled from my girl to play some games, but never on her birthdate.

AnonLu · Sep 21, 2016

fcuco said:
Dude, you were so into games that you forgot your girlfriend's birthdate? That's not cool at all you probably hurt her feelings pretty badly or you simply did not care about her pretty much to begin with. It is probably not healthy to be this immersed into games to the point where you forget important personal matters like that, if you reach such a point the thing appears to sound more like an addiction and not some escapism entertainment. Look, I confess, a couple of times I also fled from my girl to play some games, but never on her birthdate.

I know this is old, but didn't OP mention that his girlfriend broke up with him? This incident of forgetting birthday was most likely quite a while ago. There really isn't a need to berate him for this, in my opinion.

dap1900 · May 13, 2017

I don't have troubles because of gaming, though. Sorry to hear that you broke up with your girlfriend. I usually check my schedule, to make sure that I don't play too much.

Jonathan Solomon · May 13, 2017

Damn bro, gaming has you so caught up you forgot it was her birthday?:tearsofjoy: That's kind of cold, but I understand. Gaming time flies by way differently. I feel, when I got older I was forced to focus my attention on real life things rather than just gaming. Which can suck, but I also realized how much of actual life "living" I was missing out on. Nowadays I just prioritize my time properly so I can still enjoy gaming the way I used to.

PS: For real her birthday?:tearsofjoy::tearsofjoy:

fcuco · May 19, 2017

AnonLu said:
I know this is old, but didn't OP mention that his girlfriend broke up with him? This incident of forgetting birthday was most likely quite a while ago. There really isn't a need to berate him for this, in my opinion.

The OP claims that he is laughing about it now so I don't think the girl really mattered to him at all to begin with, maybe she cared even less and used the whole thing as the perfect excuse to leave him for all we know. Gaming addiction is very real though, and one of the first signs that tell you that you have a compulsion is when you start missing important events in your personal life in order to indulge in any activity, actually that's the defining symptom of it and what makes it a compulsion really.

ulfhedin · May 19, 2017

I can't say that I have not sacrificed gaming over family time. It is a horrible thing to do when you hurt someone's feelings, but not only that, you look back and realize how much you missed out on life. I like gaming but I missed out on opportunity's spending time with my family. I can never get that back. I can only learn from my mistake and try to limit my gaming addiction.

camshaq23 · May 22, 2017

I've had a lot of trouble with gaming all my life which would lead me to research cheat codes or hacks. Games can be so annoying once you reach at some level that's difficult to pass. Usually it's not easy but can be irritating at times cause you just want to win and move and gain bragging rights of finishing the entire game.

Corzhens · May 26, 2017

I am just a leisure player but treading on dangerous ground, so to speak because me and my colleagues used to play in the office. We were assigned to handle the computers with issues. While testing the repaired ones, we play when the boss was not around. It was fun because we were like doing something illegal. But what if we got caught? For sure we would be suspended and may even lose our job.

TheArticulate · May 27, 2017

When I was younger my parents would get on me occasionally for playing games too much. Other than that I haven't had any issues with gaming though. I've never been a really hardcore gamer, I got good grades in school and participated in extracurricular activities as well, so it's not like video games were all I did.

Xilkozuf · May 27, 2017

Me too, as a young kid I played too much and didn't do well at school. Growing up I learned to balance out gaming and social life, even if sometime I still play too much... while other times I pass through phases where I just abandon temporarily gaming completely.

Jonathan Solomon · May 28, 2017

Corzhens said:
I am just a leisure player but treading on dangerous ground, so to speak because me and my colleagues used to play in the office. We were assigned to handle the computers with issues. While testing the repaired ones, we play when the boss was not around. It was fun because we were like doing something illegal. But what if we got caught? For sure we would be suspended and may even lose our job.

I've gotten close to making this mistake before. Generally, I try to separate my leisure time and work. Mainly due to the fact that it's extremely easy for me to cross up.

lunarsilkdragon · May 30, 2017

I have also had some problems with my girlfriend concerning video games. She is mostly okay with me playing and she likes to play some old PS2 games from time to time herself, but sometimes she thinks I just play too much. Nothing major, though.

OursIsTheFury · May 31, 2017

I think the most trouble I have had with gaming is the achievements (Steam), and in old school games when they had their own challenge modes with completion rewards. I'm the type of player who always wants 100% completion, and sometimes the game developers really make it a point to not let that happen. Either it makes the game longer, longer replay value, or just to entice completionists like me, those games are really frustrating sometimes.

Zyni · May 31, 2017

When I first started playing WoW, I got a little caught up in it. Generally, I don't get so absorbed in anything, but I was new to the game and it was intense for me. I lost track of time, and I ended up being like 5 minutes late to pick up one of my kids from practice. I felt like the worst mom in history. When I got there I found out that practice ran late. She wouldn't even have realized I was late, but I was too busy apologizing because I felt so bad. Then, I never heard the end of it. She teased me about it for ages.

GameCube · Jun 3, 2017

I haven't been thru much trouble except that lately a preschooler scratched my Super Mario All Stars game, a favorite of mine and dropped the controller, permanently disabling it. Besides that, there hasn't been trouble other than my nephew always wanting to look up YouTube vids to beat a certain game - but he seems to need it for every level.

Salamander Man 2 · Jun 3, 2017

The worst thing that happened to me was I called someone a c*nt because I was playing zombie survival on gmod and they locked me out and my mom yelled at me saying that the word is offensive to females then my dad texted me to get off of the games

Fordo · Jun 4, 2017

Salamander Man 2 said:
The worst thing that happened to me was I called someone a c*nt because I was playing zombie survival on gmod and they locked me out and my mom yelled at me saying that the word is offensive to females then my dad texted me to get off of the games

You should really learn to respect women. It really sounds like you do not. If you switch it up, I'll put some respect on your name. The worst thing I'd say I've done on video games is prolly smash one of my guitar hero controllers.

Empire · Jun 4, 2017

Funny part that I never get in trouble in regards to gaming. Why would I

Yet I can have some times when it happen.

Playing the same game for hours on end for an hole day and family member starts saying that I have don't done anything around the home and the talk starts crazy you know.
regards being online never got in trouble LOL other then getting others in trouble

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