I understand, I’ve known others who had the same experience with reading and movies. I’m pretty much the opposite haha. To me it always seems like such an amazing thing to miss out on, but no doubt it’s the same way the other way around! Different temperaments love different things 
I’m a true gamer, where I buy many games [the highest tier if available, Deluxe/Collector Editions/etc.] and barely play them… the best Steam Deck and barely played on it… the PS5 VR2 and barely played on it, etc.
And then I got a more than a decade old PC just to play WoW and WoT!
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True story time . I had a Dell pc bought it back in 2001 ! Pentium 4. It was quite expensive at the time.
That computer ran wow all the way uptoo Cataclysm . It was absolutely fine , game looked great , ran well. Not the best sure but WoW was completely playable on it.
Then cata hit and the pre-patch killed my pc. Suddently the game just say no to my PC.
One day i was playing ready for pre-launch check out the new class combos , new zones and I couldn’t … game was like you need a new PC bro
I was devastated lmao ! I was living in France at the time so it wasnt even a No , it was a non !
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Was waiting for the NVidia 5000 series to get a new PC with but reviews are out and they’re beyond appalling… even worse than previous gen’s 4k series. And a lot of decade old games running on the 5090 [which is €2000] were in the single digits fps!
NVidia trying to push this AI generated fps nonsense for future games…
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I’ll go to the other end. Anyone who only plays ARPG or F2P shooters isn’t a gamer.
A bit of both I guess.
I do not buy many games these days as most are, frankly, not too good, and a lot that even interest me end up coming out as a buggy mess that need atleast a year for it to work properly. Usually I buy the games I am interested in when they are on bigger discounts.
WoW I still play, and I also play Final Fantasy 14 on the side. Other games I play exclusively with friends (Elden Ring, Path of Exile 2 to an extent, Age of Wonders 4, Stellaris and such.)
I don’t play any games other than WoW.
I used to play all Blizzard games, but Overwatch was the first one that didn’t hook me at all. Diablo 4 was also the first game I didn’t buy at all (though that’s not a final decision - I’ll probably buy it in the future when I’m in the right mood, but not right now).
Outside of Blizzard games, over the last 10 years, I’ve spent a lot of time playing Factorio and RimWorld. I also played GTA 5, but it didn’t really hook me - I just completed the main questline and never felt the urge to explore more. Back in the day, I spent a crazy amount of time on GTA: Vice City. I think I completed that game 100%, and I still remember its map better than the city I live in - lol. But GTA 5 just wasn’t as good. I think newer games have lost something important.
Right now, it’s all about WoW - Retail, various Classic versions - I love it all. I hate many things about WoW, but that’s because I care about it in the end. I’ve been playing WoW since 2008 and don’t plan to stop anytime soon.
I’ve never played on consoles and don’t want to. I think console gaming is inferior to PC gaming. I had a Dendy in my childhood, but that was a long time ago. Super Mario, Battle City - those were good games.
Maybe I’d play more games if it weren’t for WoW, but WoW takes up all my free time. I often spend 50+ hours per week on it, so it’s hard to dedicate time to other games. I haven’t even played the new Factorio yet…
I am a mythic raider only. I don’t play anything else.
WoW player. I’m not a gamer, I’m just a WoW player.
I don’t play anything else and I have zero interest on changing that.
A friend of mine thinks that I hate this game cause I complain from time to time but I honestly think that WoW is the perfect game for me; sure, sometimes balance is annoying and some systems are not of my liking but imo the combat and art/grafics that WoW has is/are flawless.
Both actually.
I got a ton of games on my steamlibrary and I own a xbox and switch.
I play anything from flightsim to a nice actiongame.
Best part so far is having a GM being impressed to get a ticket from a WoW veteran (been playing for over 14 years now), and its still my favorite game.
Altho my tabletop hobby eats more and more time…
I don’t see the distinction. Is WoW a game? Yes. Then if you play WoW you’re a gamer. Is candy crush a game? Yes… same deal.
That really.
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I ve been playing games my whole life , from Atari 2600 console to Amstrad CPC 6128 then PC 8088 and then to more modern pcs . Of course playing on coin ops was also a huge part of my gaming life…
My most played games were CS 1.6 (used to be very competitive by going to tournaments etc, Battlefield series (now i play Battlefield 1) Fallout series (2 and Vegas are still my favorite ones) Mass Effect and Dragon Age (except the crappy veilguard ) and of course WoW that i have been playing since closed beta…Now i do enjoy some more turn based 3rd person RPGs like Divinity original sin 2, Pillars of eternity and Pathfinder Kingmaker.
Other games that i have truly enjoyed is Kingdom come deliverance (i will play 2 when prices drops ) Red Dead Redemption (one of the best games ever) , Skyrim ( i will start it again with some mods since it is awesome) and Witcher 3 (another masterpiece )
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Wow player mostly. I enjoy the rpg/collectionism/achieve farm mostly and i have invested way too much time and money to quit. Just kidding, but wow is the game that i enjoy the most and have diferent goals or approachs
90% WoW the rest is Civ6 or Cities Skylines. Waiting for the CSII discount on steam but 100 % WoW till it happens.
The cross section of players I know play different games, and often together too. I don’t think playing one game more than others invalidates you from being a gamer though. Gamers are gamers.
I spend the bulk of my gaming time on WoW but I do play other games on PC and my mobile. Occasionally on a console.
I have only palyed two games:
lineage 2
wow
I like fantasy games and have always played a dwarf. If there are no dwarves I’m not interested.
I did play a lot of games in the late 90s and early 2000s, but now it’s just WoW and The Sims 4 (on and off since I’m a bit fed off with EA at this point).
I play either WoW or Sims 4 too and have done since my twenties.
TBH I dont have time to commit to more then that, I only play those 2 sporadically nowadays.
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I play a lot of games that aren’t WoW, but I feel like this doesn’t have a correlation with buying games as they come out. In fact, I seldom feel the urge to buy something that just came out, given how many amazing videogames are out there, from 2-3 or even 30 years ago.
I wouldn’t even say it’s a matter of price, but more of diving really deep into what you’ve got, before buying something else. That takes time: I’m not going to buy New Game 4, when I have yet to install New Game 3 and could easily sink another 100 hours into New Game 2.
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Gamer in my childhood and teenage years. Had a shelf filled to the brim with games and was a regular customer in my local gaming store.
Then came WoW and for many it was more or less only WoW. And I think that makes sense. A Live Service game really does try to be your one and only need for gaming, and if you enjoy it, then it’s easy to devote yourself to it. And I did for more than a decade. There are a ridiculous amount of great games I haven’t played in the mid-2000’s because of WoW.
These days I’m a gamer again, because I don’t care that much for WoW anymore and therefore don’t spend much time on it. So I play other games instead, and find myself more keen to frequently try new titles rather than devote myself to a single game again. I guess too much of the Live Service experience ruins your appetite for more of it, at least for a while.