[Sebas_09]

just casual games

[thekonamicode]

Sooner than later.

[Meisadragon]

When I simply don't have the passion for gaming anymore.

[Mattakuevan]

Nothing would make me quit gaming, as in, quit playing games.

However, there are plenty of things that would make me stop getting new games. Excessive DRM on all/most titles is a big one. That and a lack of quality titles a.k.a. pandering to idiots.

[semiconscious]

I'll just play my old games.

same :) ...

vita (which i love) was it for me as an early adopter. as someone with no interest in motion-control, on-line services, or dlc, i already see future gaming sorta leaving me in the dust. it's gonna take some very cool looking &, most of all, imaginative games to get me to jump into next-gen...

[Stumpokapow]

Nothing.

If games stopped being made, I'd still have old ones to play. If I had no time because I was a 24 Hour a Day Indiana Jones Trauma Surgeon Supreme Court Justice, I'd make room for little 5 minute sessions and I wouldn't consider it "quitting gaming", just not having time. In the mean time, if new games get made that interest me, I'll buy them.

I guess if I was somehow paralyzed I'd probably have to look at weighing the hoops I'd have to jump through to be a disabled gamer versus my other hobbies.

[Power Stranger]

Well even if developers stopped making games completely, I would still play the games I do have for the rest of my life...but if Nintendo were to ever cease to exist I would probably cry.

Another scenario I could see ruining games for me is if social/microtransaction/ad-heavy games completely took over the industry.

[Supermanisdead]

Going blind. Knock on wood.

this is the most clever masturbation joke ive ever read

[TestMonkey]

Sold exclusively at Gamestop.

[Liquidus]

Digital Only and I'm done gaming. Don't care about used games as I support devs anyways and not EB.

[BosSin]

Gamer til I can game no longer

[King of the Potato People]

Gaf

[mr_toa]

Once consoles start blocking used games and/or become digital only, I'm out. Until then, I'll keep buying every console.

+1 - guess it's time to get started on assembling a (really)massive backlog on the x360 to keep in cold storage for when the clock finally ticks over and the "no used games" & "DD only" future enters the stage.

[Misterinenja]

Nothing would make me quit gaming, as in, quit playing games. However, there are plenty of things that would make me stop getting new games. Excessive DRM on all/most titles is a big one. That and a lack of quality titles a.k.a. pandering to idiots.

You pretty much summarized my answer. Thank god there's fat change of this happening.

[Deadly Cyclone]

Nothing really. Always have older games to play if needed.

[stuminus3]

Apple buying Nintendo Nintendo going 3D Party Sony buying Sega Sammy

Nintendo have already gone 3D Party. And what a party it is!

[LeleSocho]

mmmh... actually if the next generation will be like this one but powered up with even more western games and even less japanese games and a lot of anti consumer stuff like DLC i think i'll just stick with retrogaming. I really do not like western games aside from very few games and I think I do not approve the new philosophy Nintendo use with their new hardware/software, Sony is way too much USA-centric for my tastes and my lack of knowledge of Japanese language prevent me to play games that i might like.
I think i'm pretty much fucked.

[Lyte Edge]

...it no longer being fun to me.

This.

[Dueck]

Requiring an internet connection to use games would be an automatic deal-breaker. I would never do that. I have the internet (obviously), but it is a matter of principle, as that kind of DRM could get VERY annoying fast.

An all-digital platform might, but it might not. I don't mind that on PC or iPod, for some reason, but I must have discs for my console games.

[Roubjon]

Probably nothing. I don't play as much as I used to, but that's just because I have different priorities in life right now, not because I want to quit. Even if they stopped making games as of today, I'd probably be okay. I own so many games that I love and could easily replay them. That and finish the games I've hardly started.

[digita1alchemy]

Severe lack of Japanese games.

[Zeer0id]

no more good games, limb amputation, blindness, death, etc.

[Metalic]

Death.

[Deified Data]

I'll just barely manage to stay on after games go 100% digital, but I'll probably drop off (or, more accurately, just replay old games) once they require a constant connection to DRM servers. Or who knows. Maybe by that point it'll barely be noticeable. Who am I kidding? I'll keep playing regardless.

[Ramblin]

This is a depressing thread.

[Izick]

If I got bored with it, or something really henious is being done by nearly everyone.

[JonStark]

Once consoles start blocking used games and/or become digital only, I'm out. Until then, I'll keep buying every console.

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[Chet Rippo]

Probably if I lost my hands, but then I guess I wouldn't really be able to do most things I like...

[plainr_]

I should have quit when Socom died.

[Sethos]

When the milsims die.

[WickedLaharl]

motion controls/inability to rent would stop me from buying new consoles and game but i'd still play the stuff that i have.

[sp3000]

Everything being some social or multiplayer experience. Everything using the F2P model. Nothing but low budget indie games that are more timewasters than any kind of meaningful experience. Motion control being forced into everything, especially the shitty Kinect-style motion that can't play anything of any depth.

Pretty much this.

Also if everything becomes increasingly casual and appeals to the college fratboys. Which is becoming more likely with high development costs.

Indie games also piss me off for the most part because they have crowded out legitimate mid tier developers and left the market with only the two extremes of blockbusters and indie games.

[Deified Data]

I see a lot of people worrying about the death of hardcore gaming, which seems pretty reactionary and paranoid to me. It's not the death of hardcore games we should fear, it's games becoming nigh-unplayable through walls of DRM.

[Supermanisdead]

if nintendo and atlus stopped making games

[Slo]

I'm basically already done. It was a combination of growing up and having a family and other responsibilities and more active hobbies, along with watching a new crop of teenagers gamers on GAF come in and act like going comatose in front of the TV for 10 hours straight is serious business turned me off.

[AdrianWerner]

Nothing. Death of PC would make me stop bothering with any new titles, but if that would happen I would just stock up on various laptops and just stick to playing old games for the next few decades

[RoninChaos]

Nothing would make me quit gaming, as in, quit playing games. However, there are plenty of things that would make me stop getting new games. Excessive DRM on all/most titles is a big one. That and a lack of quality titles a.k.a. pandering to idiots.

same here. The amount of shit we'll probably have to deal with JUST to play games in the future is a huge turnoff. But that doesn't stop me from playing the 100s of titles I already have.

[stuminus3]

I'm basically already done. It was a combination of growing up and having a family and other responsibilities and more active hobbies, along with watching a new crop of teenagers gamers on GAF come in and act like going comatose in front of the TV for 10 hours straight is serious business turned me off.

You are the most annoying kind of grown up.

[dinosaur_hunter2]

Probably a solar storm or flip of the magnetic poles. Even if future gaming sucks, I have a bunch of retro systems and carts to play.

This, plus the end of the world. Or arthritis.

[guek]

The only thing that could make me quit gaming is life. You know, family, career, kids, etc.

Sadly I see it happening eventually. But overall, there are much more important things in my life than video games. Heck, I'd give up playing video games way before I'd ever give up reading books.

[MajorPain]

EA and there Digital Right's Management.

I will quit gaming if other publisher's follow EA as of now I will no longer buy games published by EA unless they change there EULA.

[BigDug13]

I won't "quit gaming", but I will do more retro gaming. Services like GOG and Steam allow you to enjoy the thousands of great old games I never got a chance to play. Also there are some great total conversions like that new one for Freespace, or Nehrim for Oblivion, and lots of mods to revitalize those games.

I don't like the anti-consumer direction that consoles are headed. I'll wait and see how bad it gets before jumping to another console.

[Jive Turkey]

More than likely the only thing that would get me to stop playing would be life getting in the way.

As far as gaming related causes go a total shift to iOS gaming would probably cause me to stop. I don't have a problem with the mobile platform but I don't want that as my only option.

[Ichor]

Nothing.

[theBishop]

No options for free-to-play multiplayer.

Drastic stagnation of technological development.

Ubiquity of gesture-based controls.

[Shorty]

If a gay bald space marine crawled out of my TV and attempted to suck my dick

[Mitsurux]

Once consoles start blocking used games and/or become digital only, I'm out. Until then, I'll keep buying every console.

This, while i would never actual stop playing games, this type of move would allow me to finish my backlog of games which runs right back to the NES era.... ie i have more games then i will ever be able to play.

[SmithnCo]

Nothing, I'm not so heavily invested in one company, and there will always be games that don't subscribe to shitty business practices.

[Zuly]

When it stops being fun.

[anddo0]

No more games I want to play.

Pretty much this
I'm kinda headed there. If SP games become a thing of the past. I'd walk away from gaming.