because... it takes away gaming hours? :P

I think about leaving because I never win the "VGC Most Popular User" competitions. I am convinced that shit is rigged.

getting banned for saying "my country kicked your country's ass" and "people are too stupid to realize they are getting ripped off". Is really getting me down.

To much guys in here.

Some people can't cope with the stress of this forum.

just saying something someone doesnt like and get a ban. i went from everyday to once in awhile every few days. Mainly around thursday for the updates. I spend more time on other sites not so ban happy.

Some times the extreme fan boyism gets to me... Not only are some people unreasonably over excited with their console of choice, but they feel the need to bash the other console(s). Trolling fan boys flaming. That's it.

why the heck am i here lol... i can't even tell you. i think most i just like seeing gaming news. while i dont care for the hypocrisy in fans and blind weird loyalty they have it is what it is.

Petty console wars has clouded way to many people's personalities on this site. We all like games but for some reason I see a lot of people with some weird fetish of a brand rather than liking games. Now when I say this, I am not associating every single person with this persona, but there is a large group of these type of people on here. The lack of respect they show towards each other is ridiculous to say the least. That was the number one reason for me leaving. And sure people can defend it by saying that it is the internet and this site is created for such things blah blah blah. But at the end of the day you have control of yourself and you make your own choices, so when i see all the petty arguing over this is better than this and this is horrible because of this and the complete lack of respect towards people's opinions is ridiculous. I even had private messages being sent to me saying I was horrible for even liking the Xbox brand and that I was ruining the industry because I supported them etc That is what it came down to.

While no I have not left completely I am staying out of the forums for reasons I've mentioned.  I stay here now for the news rather than listening to people's input.  It has become predictable based on products rather than what the news actually says.

never really think about about leaving this site, compared to other forums I'm apart of this is probably the most civil forums yet

if your fed up just take a long break find another forum(s) that's you find acceptable....my main motto is "why let someone over the internet get to you?" not trying to be concieted but I have too much going on in my life to be worried about t being hurt/enraged by some guy over the internet that I don't even know...I just ingore them.