Similar. Destiny is a bag of potato chips to me. (Destiny)

by Revenant1988 , How do I forum?, Thursday, October 29, 2015, 20:56 (3408 days ago) @ yakaman

This piece from Polygon focuses a lot on the persistent nature of Destiny, and how it creates a constant pull to keep playing it in favor of other "static" games.

I was habitually addicted to Destiny. The more I played, the less of a "high" I got, and therefore had to play more, had to pursue that last sliver of what I hadn't already had.

My break with Destiny came in June, long before the great August schism here on DBO. I dropped it cold turkey, felt the pull for about 3 or 4 days. I picked up Witcher III and -poof- I could no longer remember why Destiny was so important to me.

I was playing Destiny because I was addicted, and because I wanted to keep up with this community which I enjoy being a part of. I was paying in to Destiny more than it was paying back.

I feel strangely relieved. I feel strangely elated enjoying other games (Witcher III, Halo 5, and presumably Fallout 4).

Playing Destiny persistently is not inherently healthy; for me, it was.

I hit a similar wall last year and picked up Bloodborne and had a blast with it. But I never finished it. I know I'm pretty much at the end of the game, but then some of Destiny's DLC dropped and I got sucked back in, to the "I need to keep up" mentality.

Then I kinda just stopped it all (life things).

I've been on it lately, and while there are a lot of little changes I like and steps in the right direction, I'm just not enjoying it to the extent that everyone here seems to.

It's just barely fun.

It's not bad!

But it's just barely fun.

It's good to play and "snack" on for a bit, but once you've done the bounties for the day or whatever it gets stale, until it resets.

For me at least.