2500+hrs, $100s spent on MTX, Paid "Expansion"? Nah Im good

[Kulze]

The longer the invested time before it ticks over the higher the timeframe commonly.

So it depends.

It also depends on mental condition, how much other stuff is going on the life of the person, how many alternative options for entertainment they have and so on.

It’s surprisingly variable there. Some realize the issue the second it appears… others play on for thousands of hours always feeling disappointed. It’s not that the experience is awful… it’s that it’s just at the brink of unfulfilling enough to finally detach yourself fully.

@Llama8

hence my comment that if you’re doing something you don’t like (& isn’t your job) then maybe that’s a sign of some emotional issues (if you’re a hammer, every problem looks like a nail).

Lack of options from lack of experience.
Faulty strategies for dealing with arising issues (as those strategies have worked on other circumstances and ingrained)
And as you say… it could also be a sign of emotional issues.

But it’s by far not as clear cut as you think. The likelyhood for your option is only on the second place, faulty strategies which have become habits are the primary reason. Lack of experience is unlikely unless someone is rather young or quite low IQ (longer learning durations needed in magnitudes).

[ExSea]

you know what. i dont really care enough to put more effort into calling you out or making you understand.

i m just passing by in the forums nowadays anyway. havent been playing LE even.

Oniro and TQ2 seem to fit what i look for in a d-like nowadays. so coming to LE forums is more of a force of habit rather than anything else.

i dont see much topics that interest me anymore anyway, i ll see myself out

cheers

[Llama8]

@Kulze

others play on for thousands of hours always feeling disappointed

This is the bit I have difficulty getting my head around. Thousands of hours after they’re in the net negative feelings about a game (not including the amount of time they’re playing for while they’re enjoying it).

@Kulze

It’s surprisingly variable there

Yup, emotions are complicated shit.

@ExSea

i dont really care enough to put more effort into calling you out or making you understand.

Don’t worry, you can rest easy in all your whale-y majesty that I feel suitably abashed and ashamed at having been “called out” for being “closed minded” by a whale person on the internet. But I will continue to try harder to pay attention to what people are writing rather than what I think people are writing.

[Kulze]

@Llama8

This is the bit I have difficulty getting my head around. Thousands of hours after they’re in the net negative feelings about a game.

It’s the classic gambler’s fallacy… or sunken cost fallacy which happens.
The issue why that is so hard for some people to break out of is that while it accurs you’re after all putting more energy inside… which makes the fallacy even stronger as more would be ‘lost’ by stopping.