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Post by: legoburner
Like most addicts we all come crawling back, but I was wondering just how many times dakka has thrown in the towel and said 'never again'. The other uses for money in the 16-19 age range seems to be one of the main culprits.
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Post by: barlio
Well, I started wargaming when I was past the "raging hormones" age rage you mentioned and when I was already in a relationship so if i've ever taken time off it's been because I just needed a break.
Now I've 'considered' quitting gaming completely probably2-3 times, but that is generally right before a new edition of something comes out and then I get hooked right back in.
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Post by: Ravenous D
When I was in the army it was kind of hard to dedicate the time to the hobby especially when I was in Bosnia, but after that was all done I was right back into it.
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Post by: Corey85
I've cleared my desk, boxed all my minis/gear and put them in storage several times. But sure enough they always come back out and get set up again.
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Post by: tobi-nid-guy
I just startes sooo.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
I've wandered off the path now and again, but never intentionally.
It's always been life getting in the way, be it unfavourable working hours, a lack of cash, or others.
But yes, I've always come creeping back eventually. Hell, I've even embarked on a new 40k army this week!
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Post by: warpcrafter
Fifth edition Warhammer 40,000
Codex: Chaos Space Marines
So, yeah, twice for a few weeks. The AoBR Orks dragged me back.
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Post by: Uriels_Flame
I just move from game system to game system.
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Post by: djphranq
I'll take a break everyone once in a while. Sometimes its because of WoW. Sometimes its because I'm just not digging the atmosphere at the store. Right now its mostly because of summer classes and a lack of an army.
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Post by: Cryonicleech
Once in a while, I'll unintentionally pay no attention to my models and leave them alone. But I always come around.
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Post by: Kapitan Montag
legoburner wrote:The other uses for money in the 16-19 age range seems to be one of the main culprits.
QFT
That, and when they change all the rules, really cheesed me off the first time (1st ed - 2ed) I'm used to that now though.
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Post by: RiTides
I was gone for 7 years!! But I came back... and it feels good to be back
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Post by: Anung Un Rama
I don't get to paint as much as I would like to, but I never quit.
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Post by: Morathi's Darkest Sin
Once, I think it was around 98, not long after I moved in with my then future wife. We'd been mostly playing PnP RPG's and CCG's and me and a mate said screw it and quit wargamming thinking we where just good with the RPGs/CCGs.
Sold everything I had par a few bits and pieces. Lasted about 10months, before I saw an add where a kid was selling everything he had including a a gaming board for around £120. It was two or three armies worth, so after chatting with my mate again, we realized we'd been missing it and came back in.
My big regret is the stuff I sold when I dropped out, things like Slaves to Darkness, Lost and the Damned, Warhammer Armies (the one with Cathay, Nippon in) all the old Ork books. All my Space marine (Epic stuff) and of course my 17 fully painted Blood Bowl teams that I was doing as some kind of mad quest to complete out the whole NAF roster.
Painful.
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Post by: Bla_Ze
On my seventh birthday i got the 2ed starter box.
That was 16 years ago, i never looked back and probably wont, ever.
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Post by: Jungle0731
Got started when I stumbled into a GW in Bristol back in 1996 or 1997, gave it up just as the 3rd Ed was coming out. Got back into it a few months ago after looking for an easy read on a business trip and coming across the first two Horus Heresy novels in a bookstore (False Gods had just come out). After reading those and then every single 40K Black Library book I could find I broke down and admitted I was going to have to get back into it. I blame Saul Tarvitz
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Post by: Beastmaster
Since im still trying to get my first nid pieces, im kinda in a rut right now. But im getting them soon, so hopefuly that ends tomarrow
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Post by: Spellbound
I've been playing for almost 10 years now, and I've never quit. I even took my army across the Pacific to Japan with me to game over there!
I've only recently really dug down and started getting my vast collection of chaos space marines painted, though.
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Post by: Lynx0193
I have never considered giving it up...although i have changed from lord of the rings to 40k.
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Post by: 31rls31
ive stoped playing for a while do to kids and bordem now though i switch from hordes/warmachine,and 40k,and infinity,and the list gose on
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Post by: Fifty
I quit all nerdery when I went to University, but not as an intentional thing - just the friends I made at Uni were not that kind of crowd and I did not feel the need to find people to play with. It had already been over a year since I had played any GW - it had been M:tG and RPGs for a while before then anyway. I started playing NWN when I was in Japan a while back as it was something to do in the evenings apart from watch gak Japanese TV and my nerd levels have gradually increased again since then. When I quit my NWN persistent world I started playing WAR and that got me thinking about GW again.
Luckily, I never "quit", so all of my old stuff going as far back as 1989 was still in my parents' loft, so I still have StD, L&D, 'Ere We Go etc etc
I think it is a real shame that games like Space Hulk, Dark Future, Blood Bowl etc all have support varying from poor to nothing these days, but most of all, I cannot BELIEVE that Epic is no longer a mainstream game anymore.
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Post by: orkyboss30000
i was about to quit but torneys always bring me back
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Post by: Kyley
I'm always drifting away, eithre cos I get burnt out or cos I find other things ot occupy my time and money, but I always end up back
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Post by: Emperors Faithful
Eh, Once or Twice becuase I collected them, put 'em together and did sweet ef all. I didn't even KNOW you could have games with them, I was 10.
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Post by: Waaagh_Gonads
Never in the last 20 years
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Post by: Caffeine
I stopped for the second time when I came to Uni. A general mix of spending all my money on alcohol and being distracted by all the new activities that were possible. I couldn't keep away forever though and I'm now back, immersed in the wonderful world of modelling and gaming.
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Post by: perplexiti
Never!, well kind of never.
Well I did stop playing and painting for a few years when I discovered Beer and Women, but I held onto most of my models, still annoyed I lost all the books and stuff I had though.
Now I'm married with kids, so not so much beer and women anymore so alot more paintings getting done.
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Post by: Ragnar4
Never threw in the towel on them.
I did have to go on a forced hiatus during my College years.
I'm kinda mulling the idea around in my head right now.. Being a father, and a full time job haver that doesn't really pay the bills.
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Post by: Belphegor
30 years old and 20 years wargaming.
Never gave it up, never will.
If I'm down on time, I'll just make more.
Sleep is optional, pushing lead isn't.
It was almost an issue with an ex, I still don't miss her.
My gamer-mainline got more taps in it than a maple forest in upstate New York.
Don't fiend. Indulge.
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Post by: Mu
I've just returned after a break of about 17 to 18 years, can't remember there being a point where I decided to give up though just kind of drifted off..
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Post by: Major Malfunction
More than once... but I'm an old fart and have lived for long enough to do that.
All said I've probably played wargames for as many years as I have not.
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Post by: Try Again Bragg
I quit when I was 9, started when I was 8. I'm back in now and I'm 15, as I got into dawn of war and loved IG (before the new codex too).
I have to disagree with your argument that at 15-16 ish you are more likely to stop. All my friends who play with me regularly are my age.
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Post by: Darkness
11 years an no breaks for me
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Once, when I started college. It wasn't planned, I just slowly lost interest. About a year later during biochemistry class I got a whiff of some chemical that smelled exactly like plastic cement. I got all nostalgic and broke out all my hobby stuff again that evening. Haven't quit since.
So I guess I'm basically addicted to glue fumes.
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Post by: Dedrith
I've never considered quitting Wargaming, and I probably never will.
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Post by: scotty kahn
There was a time when beer and chicks became far more important. Then I got married and came right on back....more addicted than ever before.
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Post by: FITZZ
I've never given up gaming,yet,but I do consider it frequently..or at the very least seriously cutting down on purchases and such.
Honestly,I've become bored with GW,the constant price hikes,the lack of interesting,flavorful codices and the headlong rush GW seems to be taking into the mundane and mediocore has truely put me off.
I've done all I care to with my Orkz,still have a few things I'd like to add to my Death Guard and am working on a Traitor Guard force(since I still enjoy the modeling aspect) and perhaps will do a small World Eaters army(if a decent Legions codex ever comes out),but after that,I'll more than likely stop purchasing minis altogether.
I'm sure I'll still game (I've got to much invested not to) but I see home games with friends as the majority of my future gaming.
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Post by: Vermillion
4+. GW related mostly either through really bad rules likle 3rd ed, being screwed over in real life from one of their staff, stupidly high price rises, and of course my family and playing world of warcraft for a bit. Considered it as soon as I started again this year upon seeing the DA codex and comparing it to the marine one. If they had been the only army I had I would have just walked away and sent GW an email for making the army totally pointless.
Keep getting back into it though when I get the urge to paint again just need opponents now
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Post by: Forgotmytea
Never, really. I've left it severely on the back-burner for years at a time, but never truly given up on it. Still bought the odd book or model, even if it wasn't anywhere near the top of the priority list =)
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Post by: get to the chopper!
I started in about 1998 when I was 10 years old and gave up in 2002 when I was 14 because it was 'uncool' and I wanted to play guitar and chase girls instead . After 7 and a half years in which I learned to play guitar quite well and failed to get half as many girls as I would have liked, I returned to the hobby a few months ago after seeing Lemmingspawn's Iron Giants army on this very site. It occurred to me that the only reason I ever gave up wargaming is because I cared what other people thought about me, rather than ceasing to enjoy it as an activity. In my advancing years, I figure thats a pretty crap reason to stop doing something I enjoyed so much, and I'm glad I'm wargaming again (even if my bank balance isn't).
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Post by: Helbrecht
I gave up for a year a while back when I was playing , but I tried to field a troop heavy army with only a couple of tanks, major failure every game.
Then I started playing again last year and gave up for a 3 or 4 months
then I started collecting two months ago out of boredom, so I expect I'll be giving up again some time soon
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Post by: Big'Uns
I've only been playing for two years now. No urge to quit.. Then again I only play once a month.
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Post by: The Acolyte
I decided i would stop about a year back, but then i didnt know wot to do with my money and free time so i gave in and started getting back into 40k about 3 months ago
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Post by: Owain
Quit for about two years, I've been back for one. Most of my minis got packed up while I was moving and didn't even get out of their boxes for the eight months I was trying to get settled in Tampa.
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Post by: chromedog
I gave it up for a couple of years due to lack of time (2nd ed 40k) - didn't give my stuff away (except for 20-odd original harlequins) but ended up giving up tournaments for 17 years due to a lack of interest in them (or too many TFGs - I forget which).
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Post by: Shaman
I given my stuff away numerous times. I actually wish I could give it up completely.
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Post by: mortal888
I quit about a month after 4th edition came out just because I hated the rules so much. As soon as 5th edition came out I tried the game again and am back in.
Now I've expanded to Warmachine too.
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Post by: Happygrunt
I drift in and out, but try to paint often to keep up the blog.
(DAMN YOU HIGHSCHOOL!)
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Post by: oadie
I haven't been involved for that long, nor that deeply. I've played as many games as some have taken year-long breaks. I've never consciously dropped the hobby, but I frequently go for weeks at a time without picking up a paintbrush when life gets hectic.
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Post by: Fiend
I've only started a few months ago, so no time to rage just yet. Even so, I don't consider myself a rager and hope I don't ever rage quit.
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Post by: BlutEisenRegel
Gave up three times for about four months average each time. Just overloaded my brain with 40k. Got so bloated it took that many months to deflate
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Post by: djones520
Never given the game up. I've had periods where I stopped playing due to lack of anyone to play with, but that was not by my own choice.
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Post by: Mukkin'About
djones520 wrote:Never given the game up. I've had periods where I stopped playing due to lack of anyone to play with, but that was not by my own choice.
This. Exactly. Need more players to play the game. playing with yourself is only so much fun and not worth the way people look at you
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Post by: Element206
twice - a few years each time to be specific I gave up when I was in high school after being into the game for about a year. stayed away from it for about 2 years....oh, wait, ive given up on it 3 times! wow. Anyway, I got back into it after highschool briefly because I worked at a Hobbytown USA and convinced the owner to start selling GW products. I used to get a sick 45% discount at the store but I got fired, so I stopped collecting again for awhile. Then i moved to Texas, it was a few years before I started painting again. When I did start painting again, I wanted to choose something easy in terms of color scheme, so I went with Ultramarines. I was making good money at the time so I was having lots of fun building up my army....until my beautiful daughter came along and I had to pick up another job to prepare for her....eventually I never had time to paint and just lost interest in 40k...so i stopped yet again. I didnt paint for about 4 years. Last january I was out of school and considering selling off my figures, paints, well basically everything. I decided, like a failing relationship, I would give it one last shot. I sat down and started painting, I told myself if I did it for 2 weeks and got no enjoyment out of it, I would sell everything. Well, turns out it was the missing segment to my life and I instantly fell in love with it again! And so almost a year later, im still infused with excitement and painting strong! -sorry for the lengthy explanation
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Post by: Wyrmalla
First time for any real period was when I got too pissed off by the rising prices of GW's products topped with my local store closing due to high rent rates and me not wanting to go to a less player friendly store. Second time was when I had started back up on a small basis, but life got in the way. I'm back into it somewhat again now, but the new rules bother me so its really just about the modelling side of things and fluff, and I'm predicting dropping out again once I've got my current army done and my social life takes over again, though I may still be working on a model every now and again. I'm just too pissed off by GW's comericalism. =/
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Post by: Xanadu
often (more as I get older) I will lose interest completely and not do anything wargame related for months, then it comes back, then goes...
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Post by: Amaya
Eh, I don't really care much for 40k. I quit it once for a few months, picked up, played a little bit and got bored again. I just don't like the game system. It's too simplified, at least where I play.
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Post by: dark6spectre
when i was 13 i drifted off from the hobby, and mocked my then- old -friends-now-close-acquaintances for still doing it. i still bought WD for about half a year longer before i stopped. if i was bored i would spend a few hours on a model, but mainly keeping away. but then when i was 15 the hobby got back to me and now i am back in the game, with a LOT of models to paint. I still don't buy WD, really because i don't need it anymore for reviews or tuts 'cos i got DAKKA! (although the battle reps were good)
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Post by: Gitsplitta
One long break but it was caused by life asserting itself... not a frustration with wargaming itself.
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Post by: Flashman
Lol, once very briefly way back when and yes, I was probably about 16/17 with other things to spend money on. Beer etc.
Fantasy 4th Edition and 40K 2nd Edition bought me back again. Happy days
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Post by: Noisy_Marine
I've given up certain games, but never the whole thing. For example, I gave up Fantasy and (for the most part) 40k. But i still play Warmachine, FoW, and other games. Oh, I gave up Magic does that count?
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Post by: Melkhiordarkblade
I stopped for a few years in secondary school. Mainly because I was the only wargamer in the school.
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Post by: Jimsolo
I've had a few times where I didn't play/buy for extended periods, but I never intended to stay away. Blood in, blood out, gangsters.
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Post by: Zoring
I didn't deliberately give it up, but it fell away about 18-21ish with Uni etc. The release of LOTR kind of killed it for me, just stopped getting White Dwarves and then re-ignited it a couple years later.
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Post by: Gorillawizard
gave up twice, once when i was about 18-19 then again when i was 22-23, both times for World of Warcraft. Sad really! But i haven't looked back for 4 years now.
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Post by: smeugal fan
Never!!!!!
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Post by: Eldar Own
Never. I'm becoming more addicted if anything. I can see myself playing for a lot longer, and truly being a veteran
Though I suppose that may be affected when I get a family of my own. We'll see how it goes.
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Post by: kitch102
Once, for about... christ.... 10 years nearly? I did pick up the odd white dwarf in that time but never... ahem... bought 'em, just scanned em in the shop.
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Post by: NiiloTimantti
Once for a few years..
Few being something like 10 years.
Started with GorkaMorka, then I trailed of to other things, come to think of it I was probably around 15-16 years old at that time. Started again when 5th ed. 40k came around
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Post by: smeugal fan
Never
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Post by: sp4cew0lf
Never , and never will!
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Post by: carter
I tend to follow the pattern of on a year, off a year.
Strange thing is, when I come back I seem to be better at modeling and
painting than I was before, even though I've had a year of absence from the hobby.
Guess its just a mixture of age, wisdom, patience, contemplation and further understanding of life itself.
That or the fact i can't resist a new miniature
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Post by: SilverMK2
I've never actively given it up, though I did essentially just not think about it from about age 13-20. Got back into collecting at university and have played a handful of games since I finished university
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Post by: putrid one
Went off because i didn't know anyone that was fun to play with at the time and didn't have the money to buy more models so went off for 2 years. then found more people that play with a new shop being opened and got back into it.
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Post by: Howard A Treesong
Never. I've done very little in recent years what with University, but I haven't given it up. It's just not a priority.
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Post by: remilia_scarlet
I quit for a couple months, to prepare for convention season.
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Post by: Lord of Baal
Never unless I get in trouble.
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Post by: kukuchik
I haven't touched my 40k stuff in about... 6 months... but suddenly my desk is covered in orks waiting to be painted. i don't know how they got there. honest.
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Post by: Anpu42
War Gaming Never but I Gave up DnD for about 4 years
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Post by: Mr.Malevolent
I wouldn't count my absence from the game (4 years) as I continued to buy and paint miniatures. I just wasn't able to play.
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Post by: palehorse
I have been in and out of the hobbie my whole life.
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Post by: Gar'Ang
I stopped for roughly a month because of indecision Automatically Appended Next Post: Gorillawizard wrote:gave up twice, once when i was about 18-19 then again when i was 22-23, both times for World of Warcraft. Sad really! But i haven't looked back for 4 years now.
That's actually kinda funny to me because i gave up world of warcraft for warhammer xD
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Post by: dsteingass
My hobbies and free time are just on a natural rotation, every few months I switch up to something different. Getting into 20mm (or 1/72) historical gaming keeps me into wargaming, but lets me get tired of GW periodically. Still though, it is impossible to play WoW on even a semi-serious basis and keep up with modeling and painting IMO.
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Post by: Viersche
Just recently started wargaming
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Post by: vigilante87
I quit for about 3 years while I was deploying to iraq. I just didn't have the time. But now I do and my nids are growing ever so steadily
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Post by: Elector
I stopped for a while between 12 and 16, when MageKnight stopped being known or any good.
Then I started 40k
I stopped again for a year or so when I entered college.
I quit only once more (when the embargo rage was in full swing last summer). That lasted until the new semester started, when the school gaming club opened up again.
I might quit for a week or a month here of there, but never as long as that first drought, and I always have come back.
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Post by: Schmapdi
Never! But I've only been at it for about 3 years now.
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Post by: Theophony
When I got married, free time disappeared for a year or two. Got back in. Had our oldest child, left the game, not enough time. Came back. Had the twins, really not enough time. Came back. Lost my job, scrambled to keep everything together and no time again. Back into it, but haven't played a game of fifth edition, only a couple of fourth edition, and can't remember what edition of fantasy I ever played in.
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Post by: Sasa0mg
I quit once when I was about 15-16 or so, leaving highschool ready for college I just couldn't afford it and I still can't! but recently a good couple of months I've taken it back up, with WHFB new ruleset I find the game much more enjoyable and I had always had a secret love for Skaven, with there new'ish rules and models I just couldn't help but get them! Though I'm much more casual gamer then I used to be when the money was coming from my parents pockets
And ofc having a friend again close by that actually enjoys the hobby also makes it alot easier to get back into it. I'm not the best at joining into things and without playing games / store or someone to talk to about such things I don't think I would have ever gotten back into it.
Hell I even have a GK army coming along now!
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Post by: Mad4Minis
I gave up when I met my wife, we got serious, and soon had a kid. Figured Id never game again so I gave away all my gaming stuff. Several years later I needed a hobby and got back into gaming. Got her into it too.
The biggest loss from giving away all my stuff was the huge amount of Battletech mechs I had given away, over 120 mechs. Many were unseen and conversions using parts hat arent available anymore.
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Post by: The Mad Tanker
Never fully. I took a break from actually playing towards the end of 4th/beginning of 5th, but keep up with the hobby and still bought and painted models. Back in it now.
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Post by: dsteingass
Before my GF, and her not only tolerating my hobby, but actively enabling it, I too let women take me from it. However, in hindsight, that was stupid of me. You can't love someone and take them from what they love. Trying to change a person's passions is wrong, and futile.
Convos got to be like this for me:
her: you're always in the garage/basement
me: I'm working really hard on this thing, it's going to be awesome when I'm done
her: You never want to spend time with me
me: ok, sorry, what do you want to do?
her: sit on the couch and watch gak on TV that I like but you don't want to watch. Go clothes shopping with me or you can watch my kid that I won't discipline.
me: Would you like to sit out here with me and learn about the Imperial Guard? About building terrain?
her: no- gives "the look"
me: ok, I'll go
her: NEVERMIND! You never want to spend time with me anymore! You care more about your toys than me!!
me: I wonder why?
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Post by: chromedog
Part of me wonders what guys ever see in women like that?
I've never hidden my gaming, but when I have been serious about someone, I have let them know that I was a gamer, and that it was something that was not going to change.
The wife accepted it and enables my hobby. I'm lucky.
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Post by: FabricatorGeneralMike
dsteingass wrote:Before my GF, and her not only tolerating my hobby, but actively enabling it, I too let women take me from it. However, in hindsight, that was stupid of me. You can't love someone and take them from what they love. Trying to change a person's passions is wrong, and futile.
Convos got to be like this for me:
her: you're always in the garage/basement
me: I'm working really hard on this thing, it's going to be awesome when I'm done
her: You never want to spend time with me
me: ok, sorry, what do you want to do?
her: sit on the couch and watch gak on TV that I like but you don't want to watch. Go clothes shopping with me or you can watch my kid that I won't discipline.
me: Would you like to sit out here with me and learn about the Imperial Guard? About building terrain?
her: no- gives "the look"
me: ok, I'll go
her: NEVERMIND! You never want to spend time with me anymore! You care more about your toys than me!!
me: I wonder why?
My GF is totally the opposite she hears me coming up stairs from my dungeon and groans " Oh no he's coming to bug me"
She actually likes my little men and robot model kits, shes doesn't want to know about where or what so and so is but she humors me can't ask for much more then that. =o]
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Post by: Howlin' Mad Murdrean
I quit several years back once i had no friends to play with. I didnt start playing again until 2 years ago
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