Why I've Gone Off Gaming

[Chark]

Slimebeast said:

Then what's the meaning of your life? (If you feel playing games, watching TV & movies and reading novels is a waste of time)

Im not criticizing you at all, I'm just wondering how you set your priorities and how you reason about these things.

Knowledge, while it can be entertaining to gain that knowledge, you also have to ask what is it good for? If it doesn't help your career and bring in more money, then gaining knowledge is just as much a waste of time as gaming.

In the past I was a lot into gaining knowledge, mainly politics and society (and at that time I was in a long period when I didn't play video games). But one day I realized it was meaningless. There was no higher value with that knowledge. Actually it was associated with frustration (if you're into politics you know exactly what I mean) and I started to feel better by ignoring world events and instead concentrating on stuff I really like. That's probably why today I'm deeper into gaming than I ever was in my life.

Man, I read that and saw myself. I majored in Political Science and spent my entire undergrad heavily involved in student organizaitons. Became president of Student Government and my Fraternity. Even the politics of Student Government was just a big headache, after my term I isolated myself, concentrated on the Fraternity which ended up closing a year after I graduated because of the economy, oppresive university administration, and lack of trust in your fellow man. I didn't even get the national fraternity headquarters consultant job even though I interned there, economy left the position empty a whole year after I graduated. I played games then but mostly Halo 2 and CoD, though I managed some Fallout 3, Oblivion, CS source, and Half Life 2. I missed out on most of this gen and have been playing catch up. I got married, moved half way across the country and now I'm gaming maybe even more than I ever have. Level 14 with 15 platinums in less than 2 years.

With politics and adminstration looking less appealing to me I'm aiming for my secondary concentration in public relations. Since I game so much and I love everything about it I'm determined to work for SCEA. They need marketing and PR people, I just need to make myself stand out on paper. Pushing hard for a social media internship where I work and then maybe I can get my life back on track since graduation. Stop playing games? Probably not going to happen any time soon. I want to do something I love and that's being a video game industry advocate, I've been gaming for over 20 years and don't plan on stopping.