What Would Stop You Playing Games?

[The_Deleted]

Or at least giving up the current gen?
I promised myself when there was talk of SONY making games that were non-tradeable that I would have nothing to do with the PS3 if it came to fruition. So far, it hasn't.
But I gave up on SPORE despite following the game for some time and won't buy into any game that installs clandestine crap on my PC.
Would you give up on the next generation if you had to DRM every game, regardless of platform or would you pirate the game to 'prove a point'?

At what point would you put your hands up to the big three and say "You know what, you're taking the piss!"

 

[Mnemophage]

Expense. Gaming has never been a particularly thrifty pastime, but the price of games and hardware is creeping upward, and there is going to be a point where it is just plain out of my budget.

 

[Cinder Block of Oppression]

I'd be fucking pissed if they did this. It means I'd have to wait for my extremely slow internet to download huge files, we'd be paying more money for memory along with the money we'd still have to pay for the actual game, and we wouldn't be able to play games while buying games. (They might fix this, but online play would still get a huge hit from it.)

 

[Bratzzzzzz]

I'm going to stop playing games when my fiance decides that our household does not have enough women in it and enlarges our harem.

Nothing else will stop me.

NOTHING.

(Maybe having to go to work)

 

[Liminal Dusk]

I very much doubt I would give up on games ENTIRELY, but the coincidence actually is conceivable. It's not too far off to say that, if, all my favorite companies went the way Square-Enix looks to be going and "updating their style" for the sake of a new look to the point that I no longer find any entertainment in them, I'd say fuck it.

Plus, the last 10 games I've bought were all new PS2/PS3 titles, so I suppose if Sony were to go out of business, I'd cry myself to sleep and look for a new hobby in the morning. I hear professional assassination is lucrative AND relieves stress.

 

[fluffylandmine]

I would stop if shovel-ware became the status quo.
I would stop if prices rise again for a shabby product.
But I never will, I still have the games I have now, and there are plenty of old but good games I have yet to get.

 

[Amarok]

Nothing would stop me gaming in the way you're talking about. Maybe an abundance of excessive DRM bullpie and super expensive costs would stop me buying new ones (unless they were good enough to be worth the crap), but if it comes it to it, I'll just play Abe's Oddysee and Warcraft 3 for the rest of my days!

 

[Incompl te]

price.

if prices became too high ($1000 australian for a ps3 is already heaps) then ill have no choice but to stop, or waste all my savings on guitar hero 105

 

[samsprinkle]

This one certain chick...If she asked me to I'd put an ax through my xbox and pc.

 

[Aardvark]

A blackout might stop me. The zombie apocalypse would put a serious crimp in my gaming lifestyle, along with any other brand of apocalypse. Losing my hands might as well, though I could adapt, that would require effort and determination, two things that I game to avoid. Head trauma might stop it as well. Death, there's one. Let's just file them all under "Adverse impact to my general health/wellbeing".

That's all I got.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

If no good new games wre ever going to come out again, also a heart attack.

 

[JohnneyLightning]

The only way i'll ever stop gaming is if the prices creeps too high, or if they just stop making good games.

 

[Fightgarr]

When the trickle of quality games is plugged and overtaken by a storm of shit. Even then I would still play older games. If I lost my sight I would stop playing.

 

[ZantetsukenQ]

Price of games, as has been said. Oh and losing both of my hands, although I would try and find a way to play anyways.

 

[Jursa]

Prices creeping upward have already proven to be like a double edged sword. The wii is the cheapest of the consoles and look, it's practically printing money, while the PS3 is the most powerful, it's also the most expensive and sony's going bankrupt on that side of the deal. In other words, price itself limits the possible cost of a console.

 

[CoverYourHead]

*shrug* Probably blindness or loss of thumbs/fingers/hands/arms. Basically anything that physically limits me, otherwise, I'll see you on the virtual battlefield, I'll be the dead one.

 

[PsykoDragon]

MMO's I've pretty much quit already for the following reasons (which reasons apply vary from game-to-game):
1)The MMO itself is a bore.
2)The MMO spoils cash-shop users to the point that they have advantages over you that you cannot compensate for, so much that it's hopeless to try & win against them.
3)The GM's of the games are uncooperative & snobby bastards that couldn't give a crap about the complaints or requests for technical help of the players.
4)The game gets worse with an update. WORSE! Your friends couldn't log on anymore & the system has been gimped further, giving cash-shop users an even BIGGER advantage.

 

[xitel]

The only thing that would stop me from buying new games would be if they were all horrible things that only cared about graphics and "extremeawesomenessitudex".

The only thing that would stop me playing the games I already have would be the power going out. Permanently.

 

[Ace of Spades]

My still declining eyesight made worse by games, and graduating from high school. I'll still love them even when I don't play them very often.

 

[Actual]

When I'm occasionally involved in a relationship I find my playing time massively reduced, so I imagine that a woman plus children in your life would leave almost no time for the gaming.

Also deteriorating quality seems set to continue until there is no entertainment left, then I'll take up gardening.