What do you think of people who Quit Gaming because they want to "grow up"?

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binary solo said:
I'm over 40 and I love gaming. I'm also a highly qualified and specialised professional, do volunteer work, have been married 16 years (to a woman who is a non-gamer, though she likes Sing Star, Buzz and Blue Toad), and am doing a reasonable job raising 2 kids.

I met a 60 year old guy who's favourite weekend activity is playing coop Borderlands with his daughter (who live locally) and his son who lives overseas. He's got 2 PS3's at home so that he and his daughter don't need to split screen.

There was a TV news article a few years back of an 80-year old Grandma who loves to play Oblivion on her Xbox 360.

People should know, gaming is grown-up. It's not gaming that is an indication of your maturity, it's the type of game and your emotional responses to gaming that are indicators of maturity.

As for people who think they need to "focus on finding a boyfriend / girlfriend", well that's their problem right there. If they need to "focus" on being of interest to the opposite sex (or the same sex) their problem isn't that that they play video games (or at least it's not their only problem or their main problem).

Give up video gaming because there are higher priorities right now, or because you're just not into it any more. But as an effort to try to find love (or lust) or because it's not mature, that says more about the person than the nature, pros and cons of gaming.

Beautiful post! This is the right way to look at gaming.
Unfortunately too many people see it as something else and miss the point - and by that I mean both the players and the people criticizing them.

This one is great, too:

pariz said:
At the age of 18 I left my parents home to go to University and at that point I quit (what's the past tense for that?) gaming. I didn't gave it a real thought, I just did. I had a girlfriend, a job and much to study. And it wasn't about being a poser, I just didn't have the time. And though I would have loved not to miss many games back in the day I am enjoying them now.
It worked out fine for me. I don't think it is necesarily a bad thing.