How do YOU maintain video games and your adult life?

How do YOU maintain video games and your adult life?

I don't. Video games were a mistake. I'm now 29 years old, still don't have a bachelor's degree, completely friendless, about to become a wizard, and still live with my mother.

Don't become like me. Drop those video games now.

like a normal person. I go to work I go to class and if I'm not doing either of those or hanging out im playing bideo gaems

It's not that hard to work and play games

Pretty much me but I'll never become a wizard

wasn't worth it tb.h lads

I only play on weekends, do sport to maintain health, hold a degree and work a high paid job.

The stress and anxiety of not doing well in school help keep vidya from consuming my life. Can't cave to this thousands of dollars of student debt.

Hopefully will be able to pay it off within 2 years of finding a good job after getting my degree.

Then I'll be free to be a wage cuck and play vidya all day

I don't. I only beat a handful of games a year now.
>tfw no time

It's impossible to have a balanced life and play video games

>tfw 6 years of uni ahead of me
How the fuck am I gonna get time for vidya now?

This. It's a sad fact that vidya is for losers and you will end up as one if you keep playing it deep into adulthood. Just end it and have a happy life after it.

By being a socially responsible adult that knows when to work and when to amuse himself with videogames, user.

by being good at whatever it is you're studying

this
jesus christ you're all fucking losers and betas

Depends on your schedule user. I would recommend not getting many games though.

Im an EMT; video games help me escape my adult life. Wife doesnt hate games at all, and I dont make it the thing I do every waking moment of my day.

Very easily with my job.

The real problem is finding games worth playing and having the time to play. I can idort on the subway with portables, but everything else has felt stagnant with safe bets by Wall street driven western publishers and stale, unpolished recursion from eastern publishers.

AAA gaming and esports was a mistake. It sucked all the air out of the market and now all you have today are blockbuster releases and crap trying to be WoW killers.

27 yr old virgin who never had a job before

by having rich parents

Why does every MMO try to be a WoW killer instead of embracing the other possibilities of the medium? The only ones I can think of that have tried new things are Elder Scrolls Online(flopped) Black Desert Online(I don't know the state of that game but real-time combat is p good) and No Man's Sky(and you'll most likely never see another player)

This.
I come here to shit post and have fun, you people make this to personal and act like Sup Forums is a major part of your life

wuts ur steam

>Do work
>Play video games when I'm not working

Pretty simple. I don't have much of a social life so it works well.

There's probably a handful of us on here with my stats:
> Late 20s
> Beautiful family
> Wife and I graduated from a top university
> Good at my job, earn what colleagues 10 years+ earn
> Several properties

> Still enjoy vidya

The key is knowing when to do things. There's a time and place for everything. Don't believe vidya ruined your life. You ruined your life.

You need to leave Sup Forums, your kind is ruining this board. You'll be welcomed on reddit or neogaf

Do you realize that you're basically gambling your life away by being financially supported by your parents?
Say they both die, say the economy crashes, say their income vanishes for some impredictable reasons, say anything you want, you'll have nothing on your hands to start something.
That's risky, at least to me.
It may sound cozy and awesome for wageslaves or poor neets, but i think you're just living on the edge.
You can't shitpost on reddit or neogaf.
Literally the only reason i come here in 2016 is to just shitpost everything to death.

Honestly wouldn't wish that life to my worst enemy.

WoW dwarfed everything else and sucked the air out of the market. Prior to its existence, there was Everquest, GW1, and a few others happily coexisting and serving different parts of the market. Then WoW came and bulldozed them all.

Same with CoD, BF, Star Craft II: with such a massively huge presence on the market, there is no room for mid-range or even budget games.

Indie failed miserably to fill the gap left by low-end and midrange games. Instead of getting those itches scratched, we got umpteen 8/16/whatever bit inspired retro platformers with pseudo-chiptune soundtracks. They essentially proved big publishers right for flogging the shit out of devs to do something different.

>Sup Forums is a sekrit club that only social rejects can join.
I've been here since 2006 and I ain't leaving.

Become a casual. It's the only way user.

no way, dude

just worry about your own future. I don't need to worry about any of that, mate.

WoW came out before GW1, genius.

Those poor kids don't deserve a dad that browses Sup Forums

I've been relying heavily on mobile games to and from work, as well as bathroom breaks. Most of my free time is spent on other hobbies and other than the occasional Overwatch I can't be bothered at home.

Video games kept you from being a drug addict that stalks small slot machine backrooms

Great, and what about the rest of the post? EQ obviously predated WoW, as did UO, Anarchy Online, and a bunch of others.

I work a shitty part-time, minimum-wage retail job. Needless to say I live with my parents. I'm 27.

I need to find a better job. That said, I do have a good amount of free time for playing games and making games.

Prostitutes doesn't counts.

sporadically, preferably portabley

I've sunk over eight days into stardew valley by marrying every bachelorette and building a gigantic farm complete with crystal floors outside and catching a fucking giant cucumber for every luau.

Video games were a mistake.

Easy, I've been doing the same thing every day since I was 13.

Before I graduated
>Wake up a couple hours early so i can play on the PC
>Go to skool
>Come home
>Play PC till bed time - rinse and repeat

Then I graduated and the only thing that changed was that I got a job and moved out
>Wake up
>Play PC
>Go to work
>Play PC till bed

If anyone asks me to hang out or invites me to parties or drinking I just tell them no and try and think of an excuse. I'm pretty well adjusted in a social sense, I don't get nervous or anxious when I talk to people or interact with others but as a result I've become a boring sack of shit. I sit here and get high and play games and do other PC things.

Pc masterrace, right?

>pursuing a masters

Take two more years and get a doctorate you fucking twat.

This, avoiding people causes problems a lot of time but it just isn't worth it

I have a degree, job, friends, and have continued to play video games. 2 secrets:

1) Make a weekly schedule and keep ot it. Moderate yourself. And stay away from MMORPGs, they're a complete waste of life.

2) Girlfriends aren't really worth it. Sex isn't that great when you evaluate the consequences and trade-offs you have to deal with.

This.

We're glorified pack animals and ignoring that causes really bad psychological problems. Ever seen a dog that was extremely hostile and barked and bit at nearly everything? That's a non-socialized pack animal. Now imagine a human that has those problems.

>wageslave during summer
>have gf
>barely any time to play vidya
>shitpost on Sup Forums during that time instead

BONUS ROUND

Spend 4 hours at work shitposting too

Send help.

My brother-in-law basically doesn't do shit most of the time at work unless his boss tells him to deliver shit. He has his own office and he basically fucks around all day. I don't know why he's so fucking miserable.

Since you refers to "videogames" and not "playing videogames", try working on them. Being a game developer is a chance since it´s your job. Better if you are in a big company and not in an indie studio which success is at least doubtful

>adult life
Explain further.

By choosing not to have adult life
Video games every day all day