Does this happen to anybody else? Been playing Gw2 all week and having a blast and all of a sudden the hyper fixation just fell away and I can't bother to load it up
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Yeah. Real common adhd hyperfixation for me. It's annoying because in the moment the passion is real but then it can just fall off in an instant and I wonder why I was ever interested in it at all.
I still argue there's something slightly magical about starting a new MMO that can't ever be recaptured after a certain amount of playtime passes. There's a slight giddiness to starting out that fades faster and harder than I've ever experienced with other genres.
Did you maybe just burn out? Like maybe you went too hard too fast and it became less a fun thing and more a chore? Or maybe it doesn't feel special and new anymore? That's how I am with a lot of things when I don't throttle the dopamine
It sounds like you might have been going in pretty hard on it the last few weeks; it’s probably just a bit of burnout. Come back in a few weeks and try again if you’re interested. The good thing about GW2 is that it very much supports you dipping in and out of regular play like that.
The other consideration is that GW2’s progression treadmill is not as obvious as other MMO’s from my experience. When I gave up on WoW for the last time a few years back, getting used to the idea that constantly catching up with gear and leveling wasn’t the primary loop took time to adjust to.
Yes. Sometimes it feels like my passion for playing something is a die roll. Sometimes it's all I can think about, sometimes I want to make time for it, sometimes I couldn't make myself do it if I was being paid. Even if it's something I truly love, it all comes in waves.
Yes, so what happens is usually i have to work toward a goal. Then, the goal gets compleated, or the goal gets too far away. Then i feel like its a chore to log on. Then i play something else. But that itch builds up.
I've ran into similar problems with games I was enjoying. Like if a game has bad/ half controller support it feels like a chore to boot it up and other programs.
This is 100% the GW2 experience, yeah. But that's part of why I love it? When you're in you're *in*, and when you're out there's no obligations so you can just walk away no worries. And then one day the switch flips and you're back in for a while.
Yup, had that happen too with GW2. I think the main thing for me is that I don't currently have a class and/or elite specialization that I super enjoy, especially with some weapon combinations just not appealing to me visually. Maybe when I get End of Dragons with Untamed Ranger, that looks neat
Yeah, there's the solid "games between games" I stick with, but a lot of the new release treadmill I'll be into for a week but then not finish or lose interest till months later. I still gotta play re4make seperate ways, but eh, not yet
it's the only mmo i play and i havent actually booted it up in a month or two. thankfully, with the revolutionary Buy-To-Play system, there's no problem with taking a break for a while and hopping back in when the mood returns! my gw2 season is usually spring-fall, burning out after halloween.
That happened to me where I played it religiously for like a month and didn't touch it for like 6 months after that. I got around to picking up again after that but it's a really easy game to pick up and put down though surprisingly.
I find myself getting overwhelmed by the amount of stuff. Usually with the versatility of class options, and the worry I'll have to relearn the whole character after elite specializations.
But the combat, finding little random world dungeons, and random social stuff bring me back.
I tend to hit this wall when I realize the game has turned into a time grinder. Like, I'm not getting better or experiencing genuinely new things or learning, and looking ahead all I can see is repeating the same simple actions for hours. Can't get into respawn-heavy multi stuff anymore cuzza it.
All the time. Its happened mid FF14 sub, when I've purchased a new game I've been waiting on and recently I'm 100 hours in an RPG I've been enjoying and I'm like 1 or 2 dungeons from the end and slowly losing the drive to continue
Dunno bout everyone else, but there's this interest bar inside my soul that when it's filled, I lost any drive for it. For video games it ranges from 6 hours for sense overload games like Vampire Survivor and 2 weeks for the bigger game. So I needed to chug some big RPG in order to finish it.
I found that it's specific times of the year my interest comes and goes. Like I love the Christmas stuff but it always happens when I need a break from the game. Same with summer stuff too. 3 months in, 1 month out, rinse and repeat
Dude I get this all the time, with pretty much everything games, books, shows etc. It's fairly normal, maybe just try other things until you get that itch back.
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I'm off/on for months/years sometimes.
Great two weeks, followed by being done with it
Imo a good way to experience to genre, get all the good feels out of it and then leave before it ensnares you with the upkeep routine
But the combat, finding little random world dungeons, and random social stuff bring me back.