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Fresh-Faced New User





Have you ever quit playing 40k? I quit in 7th edition and am very excited to start back up in 10th!




My Top 5 Reasons I quit were: 

1: Moved and lost friend group 
2: Took the game too seriously 
3: Got a new job – time requirements 
4: New models for army (doing too much playing 3 armies, Tau/Chaos)
5: Emotionally invested – not healthy 
   
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Resolute Ultramarine Honor Guard





Quit: No - Paused: Yes. Work schedules, play groups, 3rd Edition, etc have all led to a pause for the cause.

My WHFB armies were Bretonians and Tomb Kings. 
   
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Fixture of Dakka




NE Ohio, USA

Waxing & waning interest in the game.

I sort of quit end of 6e/very early 7e.
More like "just didn't play for awhile...." and thus missed virtually an entire edition.

At the time interest in 40k was waining - both locally & within my specific gaming circles.
Interest in Historicals, particularly WWII Flames of War, however was on the rise.
Cool, I like Historicals as well.

So most of my minis time was spent taking a 15mm tour of 1940s Africa, Europe, & Russia for a few years.

The next time I played 40k was fall of '18.
Some of the group wanted to give the new edition a try. Supposedly it was better than the last one.
I was surprised to find out this was 8th edition.
??? When was 7th? I own all the RT - 6e books. I don't own a single 7e book.
A friend insists that I did indeed play 1 game of 7e. He knows what army I used, who all was playing (it was a group game), where it was.... and he's not wrong, I remember that game!

Lol. Turns out that I didn't realize that 7e had arrived & was using my 6e codex. And the others didn't know my army rules so didn't have a clue I had the wrong edition of my Codex.....

So at some early (?) point in 7e I played 1 game of 40k. Then nothing until fall of '18.





   
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Ferocious Blood Claw





I quit way back during early 4th edition due to a combination of reasons:

1 - Most of my friends from school had either moved on from the game or had left town for eductation or employment.
2 - Australian GW pricing was getting rapidly outrageous, while this was before the restriction to overseas sales, international e-commerce wasn't much of a thing at this point.
3 - The last game I played involved my Orks getting totally dumpstered by 3.5 era Chaos Space Marines, I pretty much decided I was done after that.

After that my mind was set that the game was both bad and too expensive. There was a pretty general decline in 40k in my local club at that time too, lots of people moving to other games, Warmachine in particular.

   
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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests






Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.

In high school I stopped completely and packed everything away as I just didn't have time for any of it. So I skipped the launch of 3rd Ed and all that.

When I was in Uni I came across some friends at my local GW playing a game, and soon got back into it, with the giant Chaos Marine army box (which included the 3.5 'Dex!) being my first 40k purchase in years.

We technically quit as soon as 4th Ed hit, but for years just did our own rules as 4th and 5th went on. Never really got involved in 6th of 7th.

Came back part-way through 8th though, and bought more stuff than I had ever bought before, was all ready to go and then the pandemic hit.

Raring to go with 10th though, even if GW are screwing up options as always.

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Ultramarine Chaplain with Hate to Spare






Had a pause from late 4th through mid/late 5th due to lack of time and focus on other priorities. Played straight through to early 9th when covid hit, which wrapped things up for a while. But my experience of early 9th was pretty lousy, so interest waned. I've played some One Page Rules and a bit of Necromunda in the meantime. Waiting to see what 10th will bring, but I'm not exactly holding my breath.

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Growlin' Guntrukk Driver with Killacannon





Sweden

Yeah i quit right before 7th and 9th edition and skipped them. I love miniatures and moved onto other games during those pauses.

My main reasons were mostly related to my communities I played with played the game too competativly and it wasn't fun. They also started banning or frowning on older miniatures instead of seeing them as something positive. Rebasing was enforced i i dont like being told what to do with my own collections by others.

Minor reasons was increased pricing, me loathing to rebuy books and wanting to explore other games.

Having found a new 40k community we have been replaying some 5th ed, but 10th looks promising so I'll try it

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Brutal, but kunning!  
   
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Sneaky Sniper Drone




I dropped out of actual play around.. 6th ed i think? maybe late 5th? around 2012ish.
i'd started my masters degree and the university's town didn't really have a gaming scene the way the place i;d gotten my bachelors at had. i found a small group of people who played games in their basement ,but they were hella toxic players. they hated half the updated imperial armies (like the recently updated after two editions of being ignored guard) and refused to play people if they had them. and if you played certain xenos armies (like my Tau), they'd insult you to your face about how your choice of army sucked. and if you started to win, they'd cheat.

needless to say that between lack of time and spare funds, and the lack of an enjoyable local community, i stopped playing. i still have my Tau in storage (enough for a fairly large Apocalypse army), and i still read some of the fiction (especially the Dan Abnett and Sandy Mitchell stuff, and the Horus heresy stuff when it came out) but between being gone for most of a decade and something like four major edition rewrites, i'm honestly not all that inclined to try to dive back in. though i've been planning a modelling project for a small force of space marines for Xenos Rampant.
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut




I quit somewhere in 8th edition. The game evolved in the direction I didn't like or, more importantly, didn't evolve in the direction I would like it to move.

By then I had been playing more and more modern games, like state of the art board games with sleek, cutting edge designs, or smart, decision heavy Warmachine, and 40k went the way of Monopoly or Risk - too old, too tedious, too random, too booooring.

I still follow the changes to it and hope some future edition will have what I would like it to have (more focus on gameplay, less time spent on upkeep would be a start) and new Kill Team shows that GW is not incapable of doing that. It doesn't look like it's going to be this edition yet.
   
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Buttons Should Be Brass, Not Gold!






Every time I took a hiatus from 40K, it has been because of girls/women

Now this is not intended a misogynistic comment, it's just coincidental.. but still kind of funny

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Executing Exarch





Not quit exactly more a fumble of stops and starts

First one was around 2nd Ed (94/95ish ?) as my usual 40k opponent's went off to Uni, and then one of them brought back some early MTG cards (roughly Legends etc) and Wizard trumps became the game of choice amongst my nerd herd

Played the odd game at the FLGS but it was pretty a stop

Picked it up again around 2010ish, the FLGS closed and the local nerd herd set up a gaming club and I played if it meant someone would miss out on a game if I didn't

Then X-Wing happened, was always kind of wary of the power creep in 40k (double tap Ynnari and Invisible Wraithknights are not fun) and an army that fitting in a lunch box and came pre-painted was appealing so left my Space Elfs for tiny spacesheeps

Was looking at 40k again at the tail end of XWing 1st ed as the game got a tad bloated with some spectacular power creep (TLTs, Jumpmaster and Emp Palps) then one of the gaming club got Guildball at the UK Games Expo and we kind of picked than up over 40k

Looked at 30k redo and I'm slowly trying to grasp the 10th rules, and might pick up a BRB as my aging grey matter seems to refuse taking in info from a screen, although some of the club are playing 2nd again so I might give that a go as I have the mini's and most of the bigger wotsits than I think aren't great for a 28mm game dont exist

So mostly other games, limited hobby time and being a lazy and slow painter mean I'm unlikey to embrace the new hotness






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Ork Admiral Kroozin Da Kosmos on Da Hulk






I quit during 7th because the game had become unplayable due to massive imbalances (many games were decided the moment you decided which codex to play) and the only effort that GW had put into ork rules was making sure that nothing competitive could threaten the studio favorites and that none of the formations could be played without buying more models.

It was blatantly obvious that the ork rules had not been played once before publishing, from stuff like mandatory deep strikes for units with 31 models to mastercrafted snazzguns forcing you to roll 30 shots one at a time, over to Thrakka getting to roll three times on his own warlord table with exactly one out of six warlord traits that had any effect on him.
An no, they weren't any fun to play either.

Then the supplement that shall not be named was updated with the ork decurion and it actually forced you to take the worst units in the codex to gain a formation bonus which was all drawbacks in exchange for a 16% chance to cause hammer of wrath with ~6 models. On top of that, they had removed the only formation which kept orks somewhat afloat (green tide).

I got the message from GW that orks players were no longer welcome loud and clear and quit.

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7 Ork facts people always get wrong:
Ragnar did not win against Thrakka, but suffered two crushing defeats within a few days of each other.
A lasgun is powerful enough to sever an ork's appendage or head in a single, well aimed shot.
Orks meks have a better understanding of electrics and mechanics than most Tech Priests.
Orks do not think that purple makes them harder to see. They do think that camouflage does however, without knowing why.
Gharkull Blackfang did not even come close to killing the emperor.
Orks can be corrupted by chaos, but few of them have any interest in what chaos offers.
Orks do not have the power of believe. 
   
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Master Engineer with a Brace of Pistols





washington state USA

Played regularly, Paused, tested, went oldhammer playing regularly again.

Timeline-

Started playing in late 3rd, played straight through 5th (the dark age of technology). 6th (the age of strife) killed the game in my local area, sold off large portions of my dark angels, all my nids, tau and sisters. ended up keeping and expanding my salamanders. put more focus on WM/H, classic battle tech, infinity etc...

Played a little in 7th, not much because i hate hull points as a mechanic Then formation spam became a thing, Tested index 8th, then decided lets all just go back to playing the game when it was fun. so we all went back to our hybrid 5th ed rule set. built an admech army using 7th ed codex for it. We have been having a blast with a sizable active community and have not cared what GW has done since. 40K lore for me stops before the gathering storm books. everything past that point isn't 40K to me.

This is always the aesthetic i think of when i think 40K

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Dakka Veteran





I stopped about 20 years go mainly due to booze, women and holidays being more appealing. Now I'm too old for that sort of stuff I'm back to 40k, have been for a bout 4-5 years I'd guess.
I did read the Horus Heresy series and the odd White Dwarf during my absence so perhaps not a complete break.

I've been playing a while, my first model was a lead marine and my first White Dwarf was bound with staples 
   
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain





Earth

quit no but pretty much sat out most of 8th/9th as I found the rules to be very bad, I played the odd game here and there but mostly stuck to Heresy 1.0 and 2.0 when it dropped, 10th is looking interesting so far but as always its the codexs that will make or break it for me.

that and the impending re release of Epic and BFG
   
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Brigadier General






Chicago

Never played much, but I was into 40k from 2nd through 5th edition.

Quit because:

-Cost.
Not just the increasing cost of minis, but I wasn't playing much already and realizing what it would cost for the rulebooks and codices for my armies in 6th was a big "no thanks"

-Mediocre rules.
Never really loved the rules, but once I was playing other games, it quickly became apparent. Was almost lured neck by 8th, but I had a hunch the rules would balloon again and they did.

-New Community.
I found/formed a group of players interested in the sort of generic, miniatures agnostic games I'd always wanted to play. Suddenly I was able to have multiple games and genres without increasing my hobby budget and I enjoyed creating new game meliues. This was the biggest reason. Once I didn't have to rely on GW or any other one company for a gaming community it was an easy decision not to.

All that said, I never lost my appreciation for the universe and lore of 40k. I occasionally used alternate rulesets over the years with my 40k armies, dabbled in the fiction, painted some figures, etc.

Ironically, these days my 40k armies are getting more play than ever as my son and I have discovered Grimdark Future and some of my club mates have also. It's a ton of fun and something I can play without it taking an exessive portion of my hobby funds and energy.

We might give 10th a try, or maybe not. It's going to have to be pretty great to lure us back.



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Longtime Dakkanaut





Auckland, NZ

I quit for about the last year of 7th ed. It was just a terrible edition and everyone in the local group was sick of it, so we all agreed to try out other games for a while. 8th edition revitalised things, and we started playing again.

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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard






Newcastle, OZ

Twice.

First time was during the 2nd ed period ... mostly because I just didn't have the time to play it for the better part of 4 years.

The last time was during 6th. Realised the game was no longer one I WANTED to play.

Doesn't mean I dumped all of the models in the bin, though. I kept the models I liked and just pared back the rest (I had 100 battle brother marines, 40 Terminators, 40 scouts, 8 drop pods, 4 land raiders - so I just downsized a lot.)

I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.

That is not dead which can eternal lie ...

... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
 
   
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Booming Thunderer




New England/cyberspace

Haven’t played since second edition. I played WHFB until that died and then a few years of Kings of War but really haven’t played a wargame regularly in about 7 years now.
   
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Dakka Veteran





Quit? No. But I haven't played official 40K in some time.

I started learning the game right at the end of 2nd Ed. but 3rd came out before I played even a single game. I could see a progression in rules until 5th came out. Many see 5th as the best overall edition but there were too many instances that GW was more about lateral change than positive change. That still seems to be the case.

In the middle of 5th we began house ruling quite a bit, so over the years the game has become our own version. We borrowed what we liked from newer editions or created our own rules from other games or our own ideas. We've been playing it that way ever since.

   
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter







Soft-quit a few times, finally said "nope, goodbye" and sold off my 40k armies at the beginning of 9th. I was frustrated with the constant rules churn, GW's lack of support for older models, the scale creep, the scope creep, my local community insisting that I could make the game fun again by buying more models, and the cult-like paranoia about the evils of other minis games. I still play Heresy occasionally but I've mostly moved to smaller games.

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Drop Trooper with Demo Charge




USA

Oh boy...
I started with the launch of 3rd and discovered DakkaDakka 11 days after it opened. I played religiously for a few years, maybe 2-3 games a day if possible. 3rd and 3.5 are the greatest versions of 40k ever and nothing will ever be better. If you disagree you using a trash army (Chaos or bust lol).

I played a lot of 4th edition with Ultramarines and got the entire army painted.

I think I missed 5th edition because I spent more time painting than playing. Got a Death Company army all painted up for 6th to drop, in alidating my entire army and changing the rules so drastically that all the tables in my entire region became unusable, with true line of sight making every single forest template obsolete.
After having my entire Blood Angel army table on turn 1 by Necrons I packed up and didn't even look at Warhammer until sometime later in 7th.
I played a few games with my Eldar (that I painted up in a month on a dare) but everyone hated it because I had all wave Serpents, Jetbikes and falcons. I had had them for years but I didn't know they had been buffed to OP levels and pretty much ruined 7th.
After that I stopped really caring.
8th was garbage.
9th was the worst version of the game ever. (I played 3 games and stopped because it was just so pointless and awful).
10th seems to be exactly what I wanted... But then they removed Leviathan Dreads so now I kinda don't really care about 10th. Like half of my points were in Leviathans and my army is a mix of Gravis, Intercessor and Phobos so now my characters can't join certain units and there really isn't any cohesion in my Astartes Army anymore. I think I'm just gonna sell them since it's kind of a gak collection now. Thanks GW.
And right after I finish building my second Ashwastes set and Nachmund set... And the two Octarius sets... The Sector Mechanicus tiles... The extra walk ways, the Necromunda market, a massive Sector Imperialis church, 3 battle mats, tons of scatter terrain...
I think I'm just gonna pursue my converted Knight project because it's just a fun kit bashing activity that isn't bound by 40k lore or factions.
I have 4000points of Sisters all still in boxes and an a half build Ork army of 4500 points or so. And all those ridiculous Palanites I bought... And all those damn Cadians that were handed to me... And 2000+ points of chaos cultists and havocs.
I think I need to offload most of this junk now.
Oh yeah... The Van-Saar collection... The Slave to Darkness...
Yeah...
Definitely need to get rid of this stuff.

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Dakka Veteran




Haven't ever quit, probably never will. But what edition I play may not always be the current one.
The last few editions my main gaming buddies all lagged behind. And its great. We miss the BS let the game stabilize and if its conducive to a healthy fun gaming environment we catch up. If not no worries.

For 10th after downloading the SM index this morning I have no plans to participate. I believe most of my main group feel the same. We'll stick with the more balanced developed edition until if/when GW sorts this latest cluster out.

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Pragmatic Primus Commanding Cult Forces






I never really quit (as in selling off my stuff), but I did put the hobby on hold a few times.

First time was when 7th edition hit. I didn't have a lot of time to paint or play anymore, I was a bit burned out after playing a lot during 6th and I was sad about not having a Iron Hands supplement anymore.

The launch of 8th got me back into 40k, but only briefly. I still didn't really have the time that this hobby requires (my Death Guard army as of yet still remains unassembled and unpainted) and I was just busy with other things.

Then last year a friend dragged me back into playing MESBG and one thing led to another and now I am also playing 40k again, although not nearly as often as I used to. I kinda like this slower pace, and it also means I waste less money on new minis that only end up on my pile of shame.

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Deathwing Terminator with Assault Cannon






It's mostly based on players. I went through a period of about 10 years of not playing, then came back late in 7th after moving back to a new city and looking to meet people.

Now I've got a great Crusade group, and I'll keep playing as long as that group is together.
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut





I quit 40k as it transitioned between 3.5 to 4.0. I was a 2nd edition player, and while I initially welcomed many of the simplifications of 3rd edition, I soured on what I saw as a continuous churn in rules (which has continued to the present day).

I came back as a 2nd ed. player a couple of years later and have remained so ever since, diligently gathering the WDs of that era and building out the armies appropriate to those rules.

My gaming is (lamentably) limited by family and job constraints, but I am very much interested in playing when I get the chance.

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Inspiring SDF-1 Bridge Officer





Mississippi

I quit in 2nd after getting stomped really bad (by my own brother), and deciding I liked my RPGs a lot better.

I collected and kept a loose eye on things until late 5th, when my son got interested. Lightly played through 6th, and then dropped for 7th.

Took a look again at the game when 8th dropped - using Indexes until Custodes dropped (and got the Custode codex as a birthday present, which prompted me to get the other codexes), but about the time Psychic Awakening came out, decided the game wasn't for me, not even for collecting/painting.

Good news is, after 30 years my armies (all 12 of them) are fully painted. For me, they're just "army men" toys/mini action figures now and I don't need GW's rules to enjoy them.

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Second Story Man





Austria

Quit with 6th, tried coming back with 7th and since than had more or less 1 game per Edition as by the time I had an army ready to go there was a new one

main reason for 6th was that the game was not really fun any more and since than the game is moving fast for me

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Elite Tyranid Warrior




For me it was army rules. Starting just as 2nd was transitioning to 3rd I absolutely loved my customisable nids. That lasted until the cruddace codex landed in 5th (called the "cruddex" by nid players at the time), stripping the faction of everything that made it fun and never giving it back.

I tried the following editions every once in a while but got disappointed with the game state/army rules pretty quickly each time.

I tried venturing into other armies; eldar corsairs and ork armored krumpany, which both got killed off by gw. So yeah.

Love the setting, love the factions, but sadly gw's take on rules, balance and their blatantly inequal faction treatment has consistently driven me away.
   
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Witch Hunter in the Shadows





The local group dried up and died with 6th edition. Just an increasing sense of rule and codex creep overridding any actual decisions made on the table.

To be fair it started in late 5th when GK were banned after one game and the necron player replaced tactics with a croupier-stick.

-------

The rose tinted impression of early 5e was helped by relatively little play during 3-4e, no lingering expectations of invincible eldar skimmers, turn 1 charges, siren princes and the many varieties of min/max 'build your own unit' type rules.

But glass half full as we all kind of got used to a game where we could swap lists and not win or lose then and there.

Occasional attempts at newer editions never recaptured that.
   
 
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