Quitting Dota two - Page 2
Blogs > Rocket-Bear |
ahswtini
Northern Ireland22201 Posts
| ||
Rocket-Bear
3070 Posts
On March 30 2015 16:40 DucK- wrote: I think dota is fun when people start playing for fun instead of being try hard. I am a huge fan of sing's approach in pubs when he stacks with Tucker bangfish akroma and co. Of course you need like minded friends for it to work. It's not about Dota being boring. I've played Dota on and off for like 7-8 years now when I was starting to get a bit tired of it. If it was about "if I don't find it fun atm" I would probably come back in some weeks/months yes. The issue is that I can see how it's affecting my mental health really bad and that I need to quit for my own good. For some reason Dota always comes too high up on my priorities. Like I'm studying a University programme I find really fun and what I want to be doing. Yet I only breeze through it and don't take the time to become good at it. I'm going to Korea next year and yet I rather sit in a 30min DDoS pause than studying the language. Call it addiction if you want, at this point it probably is, which is why I need to quit. Between playing Dota 1 / HoN / Dota 2 (just taking the average of 35min games+5min queue) + Browsing Dota related forums + Watching streams I've spent around ~220 days (as in 220*24 hours) on Dota. Think it's more than enough and it's time to move on. Spare/Free time is still time of your life. Even if you find yourself having the time to play. it's still using your time. Don't want this to become some life lesson for people because you are all in charge of your own life. But if you find yourself sitting through 30min of DDoS pauses then at least think about how you are using your time. If you think it's worth it then sure go ahead. Play/enjoy the game, it's a fun game. For me personally it ends here, I need to change my life and lifestyle for my own good. | ||
BurningSera
Ireland19621 Posts
Best of luck! I personally think that farming real life gold is so much enjoyable than playing dota(2) now. The meta and matching systems made dota2 a very different game from dota1. | ||
DucK-
Singapore11444 Posts
On March 30 2015 18:10 Rocket-Bear wrote: It's not about Dota being boring. I've played Dota on and off for like 7-8 years now when I was starting to get a bit tired of it. If it was about "if I don't find it fun atm" I would probably come back in some weeks/months yes. The issue is that I can see how it's affecting my mental health really bad and that I need to quit for my own good. For some reason Dota always comes too high up on my priorities. Like I'm studying a University programme I find really fun and what I want to be doing. Yet I only breeze through it and don't take the time to become good at it. I'm going to Korea next year and yet I rather sit in a 30min DDoS pause than studying the language. Call it addiction if you want, at this point it probably is, which is why I need to quit. Between playing Dota 1 / HoN / Dota 2 (just taking the average of 35min games+5min queue) + Browsing Dota related forums + Watching streams I've spent around ~220 days (as in 220*24 hours) on Dota. Think it's more than enough and it's time to move on. Spare/Free time is still time of your life. Even if you find yourself having the time to play. it's still using your time. Don't want this to become some life lesson for people because you are all in charge of your own life. But if you find yourself sitting through 30min of DDoS pauses then at least think about how you are using your time. If you think it's worth it then sure go ahead. Play/enjoy the game, it's a fun game. For me personally it ends here, I need to change my life and lifestyle for my own good. I see. I think you made a right decision and I'm supportive of it. Until you have the will and can find the balance between gaming and real life, I think its good that you stay away from the game. The first step to curbing an addiction is always to recognise that you're addicted. All the best to you! | ||
Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
If you are quitting for the right reasons, then you don't need to justify your departure. Best of luck man | ||
Kreb
4834 Posts
On March 30 2015 18:10 Rocket-Bear wrote: It's not about Dota being boring. I've played Dota on and off for like 7-8 years now when I was starting to get a bit tired of it. If it was about "if I don't find it fun atm" I would probably come back in some weeks/months yes. The issue is that I can see how it's affecting my mental health really bad and that I need to quit for my own good. For some reason Dota always comes too high up on my priorities. Like I'm studying a University programme I find really fun and what I want to be doing. Yet I only breeze through it and don't take the time to become good at it. I'm going to Korea next year and yet I rather sit in a 30min DDoS pause than studying the language. Call it addiction if you want, at this point it probably is, which is why I need to quit. Between playing Dota 1 / HoN / Dota 2 (just taking the average of 35min games+5min queue) + Browsing Dota related forums + Watching streams I've spent around ~220 days (as in 220*24 hours) on Dota. Think it's more than enough and it's time to move on. Spare/Free time is still time of your life. Even if you find yourself having the time to play. it's still using your time. Don't want this to become some life lesson for people because you are all in charge of your own life. But if you find yourself sitting through 30min of DDoS pauses then at least think about how you are using your time. If you think it's worth it then sure go ahead. Play/enjoy the game, it's a fun game. For me personally it ends here, I need to change my life and lifestyle for my own good. Not gonna tell you or anyone else what to do, but whenever I've had similar feelings about my own situation I always remind myself: You dont live to be able to work, you work to be able to live. And then I go back to whatever "useless" activity I'm doing feeling much better. I'm probably living a pretty sad life in many people's eyes, yet I feel extremely certain I'm happier than a lot of those people are. Because I'm truly doing whatever (the fuck) I want to. If you watch Dota enough to sit through 30min DDoS pauses, dont pretend you dont enjoy it or that its bad. Embrace it instead. Spare/Free time is still time of your life. Even if you find yourself having the time to play. it's still using your time. You dont live to be able to work, you work to be able to live. | ||
nojok
France15837 Posts
| ||
Stancel
Singapore15360 Posts
| ||
Plansix
United States60190 Posts
And Dota isn’t going anyplace. It will be here when if/when you want to come back and you will still be skilled at it. And the people will be there too. You’re not losing anything by focusing on other things, only gaining. This game will be as insane, stupid and filled with dumb heroes an interactions if you come back in 6 months or a year. The only sad part about this is that we here at team liquid won’t get to play with you, but it doesn’t mean forever. So its sad we won’t see you for awhile, but I’m not really convinced this is goodbye. So I’ll just say good luck and thanks for all the fish. | ||
teddyoojo
Germany22367 Posts
| ||
Targe
United Kingdom14103 Posts
| ||
TheEmulator
28058 Posts
On March 30 2015 21:57 teddyoojo wrote: sounds like u need a woman :-) Rocketbear came out as being gay on these forums a while ago. | ||
Rocket-Bear
3070 Posts
On March 30 2015 08:42 teddyoojo wrote: giff shaker item ^_^ I'll give you my shaker items cause can't argue with tswizzle On March 30 2015 17:03 Sassback wrote: Well, I'm going to put two in. The first, is because i think it's a beautiful piece of music, and i think its emblematic of life being cyclic and things start and stop. If one thing ends another will sprout up in its place. And the second one is just because quitting Dota is sad, and Elliot smith always seemed to me to make pretty sad music. Yeah that Elliot Smith song was good, will give the rest of what I have. gz On March 30 2015 08:53 bluegarfield wrote: emo nemo wello Life is like an RPG, and Dota is a minigame inside that RPG. You got highscore achievement, time to move on to next minigame. Thank you again and all the best + Show Spoiler + Also, teh title kinda says it all Season 3's intro was better : Ppppp On March 30 2015 12:38 TheEmulator wrote: I don't want items. But I think this is a fitting song This is "the" Skrillex song | ||
bluegarfield
Singapore1128 Posts
On March 31 2015 04:07 Rocket-Bear wrote: Season 3's intro was better : Ppppp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdLeW41jdBo ello friend :D remember to always happy as can be | ||
govie
9334 Posts
| ||
Yurie
11539 Posts
| ||
BurningSera
Ireland19621 Posts
| ||
Sassback
United States718 Posts
| ||
Gotard
Poland446 Posts
| ||
duckmaster
687 Posts
| ||
| ||