play it when your children are asleep.

once they're bigger quit gaming altogether. don't be a bad influence to your kids please!

This post has been edited by Davidtcf: Feb 7 2015, 10:26 PM

If they see u game they will also wanna game? Unless if they don't see and don't know...

My plan is to quit when my kid reaches 5 years or so.. Then only come back to gaming when he's big and attending college. Play all I want that time.

This post has been edited by Davidtcf: Feb 8 2015, 10:52 AM

for me gaming is a huge gateway to more hardcore addiction to it in the future. We can say "oh nvm he/she will game responsibly" but in the end it's really a hard thing to control with kids.

my parents and sisters believed in responsible gaming. in the end as I grow up they /facepalm and knew they made the wrong decision in buying that Intel Pentium 1 and allowing me to play occasionally on it. As a kid I lost self control as i gradually had more access to the PC. By teenage years I'm a full-blown addict often shopping for Jack Sparrow game CDs at the mall, often playing at anytime when i'm doing with homework etc... using my hard earned ang pao money and buying them.. till mum have to pulled me away from it last time.

finally my gaming couldn't keep up.. games require much higher end specs and I just gave up till reach college.. then that is when addiction came back as i coerce my parents to buy me a new rig to use at college.. downloaded a lot of games from FTP of other students and i know full well later on that I could have done better at college if i did not entangle myself with games. Played Dota 2 like crazy too during that time only to quit it few years ago.. all that wasted time.. Steam clocked me at 300+hours in Dota 2.. in the end what for? what's the point? what do u gain from it? nothing...

it affected my social life.. made me more lone-ranger type of guy and failure to respond correctly in social situations (with friends etc - dad already didn't taught me much so this worsen it). Only growing up I started to learn more by my own. Workplace taught me a lot about the reality of life.. and gaming is truly pointless anywhere in it.. just used to kill time and feed the dopamine addiction in your brain (search up how gaming and dopamine hormones co-relate and u'll understand).

i'd rather they grow up.. become a successful person.. then they decide for themselves. Would hate if they'd end up like me, losing greater potential in what they could have become.. better they use all that time in school activities, studies, and building up their social skills.

why don't wanna quit completely till maybe kids are at college only resume gaming? is it so hard?

i'm also worried end up can't quit later.. but i adi promise my wife (she totally anti gaming esp with hardcore desktop gaming type). have to keep to my words.. suffer time will commence that time..

same here... lacking sleep basically just ruins my day... 20 yrs old and 30 yrs old big difference yo