Nineteen Eleven

Hey guys, some of ya know me (look at my neg rep!) and some don't but I am looking for some advice from people in the same situation. I already know i'll get the handful who just want to say negative shit, but hoping to hear some real advice.

I am almost 40 now (i know, a dinosaur for playing games), I have a full time + job, 4 kids, and been married for 15 years now. I have a full and busy life, yet I manage to still squeeze in time for DoD.

Recently I have thought I should quit DoD to focus more on my "real" life, although I am not neglecting anything there. I sometimes just think that instead of spending the time playing DoD I should be focusing somewhere else.....wife, kids, business, etc.

My biggest issue is that I have been playing DoD forever now. I love the game. Yes it's old, but so am I. It's simple, it's easy, not much changes. I don't have to hit a 33 button combo to throw a grenade, while firing my rocket launcher, while stabbing a guy in the chest with a table leg.....all while on the last flag (ultimately saving the universe in the process). I have friends I have played with for years and years. I've been off and on in TPG and love the competition. I finally have the opportunity to move "up" in the league and although I am still a lowly IM player, I enjoy the challenge of moving up with a group of friends.

I've been in several clans, ran a clan, been in a community, and now, running solo. Just playing in pubs and running with guys from my scrim team. I have had the opportunity to play with a lot of good peeps and have met several of them in my traveling. I would equate my time playing DoD as some people do for going to hang out at the bar. I'm just having some fun with the "guys."

How do you guys time manage? and does it interfere with other aspects of your life?

Thanks for listening.

this is definitely a thread on the internet

Hey ben i dont know you at all but i have to say i really dont see much wrong with putting in some dod time. For people to have success in their life they always need a getaway or hobby to even out his days. Im not a life coach or anything but I dont see the harm in it, I wouldnt beat yourself up about it, i mean aslong as you dont neglect your important life things for dod that is, its just like playing in a beer league baseball team i guess.

cheers

chuck doesn't manage dod. He is dod.

This might be too serious for the gif experts around here.

You should schedule time(s) with your team to play and then not play outside of those times. I know it seems obvious but it works!



























...he posts from his work computer

Airnick15 wrote:This might be too serious for the gif experts around here.

I don't usually agree with Airnick but thats one of the few situations around that I couldn't agree more.

Before throwing up any advice, if there is any, you pretty much seem to be very reasonable in how much time you dedicate in DoD I feel compelled to start saying that first of all I'm not that busy nor "old" as you (I'm 25 yet) but I'm already married and have a full time job (8-10 hours mon through fri, overtime hours paid). No kids. Yet. I have some awkward work flexibility that makes my duty schedule being very smooth most of the time (I'm God's gift to financial spreadsheets and Excel usage) so I can pretty much be online all day over steam, check my personal stuff and nerd around 1911. I'm not sure if I will be able to get the same job conditions but I'm rather sure if the time of getting a new job comes I will never find one like I have ever again. Not in my area of expertise at least. So I'm fairly sure that I'll have to quit DoD or at least being involved in the community as much as I am. Same as when me and my wife get our first kid.

I know that some people are fathers already, some of them have almost the same age as you do and they still play DoD. You said you quitted and returned sometimes also, which lead me to believe that you had to put something in order your real life (like getting your first kid or something). Speaking which I think that playing DoD or any other videogame is pretty much as the same as an hobby, like collecting stamps or marbles, aeromodelling, you name it. As long as it not interfere with your life duties like getting your bills and mortgage being paid and your kids knowing that you exist for them it is perfectly normal and even healthy having this a way of getting rid of stress. My wife in fact like the fact I'm stuck behind a shiny led monitor instead of getting to happy hours with coleagues so that is always plus. All in all, you pretty much seem to be very reasonable in how much time you dedicate in DoD. Otherwise you wouldn't still be married by slightly more time than DoD very existence.

Last but not least, plus rep for throwing up this out there even though knowing that pretty much everyone here - myself included - is a nerd hater loser n00b who still play DoD in 2012 lololol. +REP!

cassinoroyale wrote:I don't usually agree with Airnick

Really? I think most of my posts fall into logicland. I confused.

Play to have fun, if you find yourself nerd raging, go play with your kids or something.

Nothing wrong with playing games as long as you're not neglecting anything (which it doesn't seem that you are)

glhfmakebacon.