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For me I dunno if it's more agency or just more difficult to stay entertained. I used to play world of Warcraft for ten hours marathons on summer break. Same for counter strike, half life deathmatch... Hell even single player games like ocarina of Time would take me months to get through because chopping down all the signs in the beginner area, leaving, coming back, and doing it all over again would be enough "game" for me.

Now I barely touch games... Can do about an hour and a half of tv or movie max (barring good 2h+ films). Multiplayer games I can do maybe an hour or two a couple days a week, more if we're in the same room.

I mean I watched Alladin every day for a good few months once. I'm typing this out because I got distracted from Netflix just now. Something's different about me, I wonder if it's true for others?

I wonder if it's partly our broadened scope as adults. We can do real things in the real world, so pretend (more or less elaborate or formalized) is less appealing.

That was true for me for a few years in my 30s. Now, for some reason, I’m actually very happy that I seem to enjoy games a lot again. Bought a Switch, and it’s getting a lot of use.

I only ever played single player games, though. Gaming was always “me time”, and there was always plenty of opportunity to meet people to be social, without games (unless it’s board games, which I enjoy too).

This really resonates with me. I guess at some point games et all stopped being mentally "rewarding" to us.

> Multiplayer games I can do maybe an hour or two a couple days a week, more if we're in the same room.

Same here. I suspect that it's simply easier to enjoy these things socially and then do other things alone (like coding or reading).

Maybe you're just more demanding nowadays.

That's definitely the case for me. After a long break in playing games where I thought games are just not for me anymore, I rediscovered that I actually still like spending lots of time with them. It just has to be the right games, and those differ from the games I enjoyed when I was young (the sets are dissimilar, but not entirely disjunct).

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