Hello everyone!! I’m Saddevil. I used to be a member of this prestigious group years ago. Last time I had the privilege of engaging with you fine folks was at the end of 2014. I remember it till this day. One fine member of the group was writing a blog about Doom series back then on GI and asked me for my contribution which I sadly couldn’t submit to him before he finished his blog that got published on GI because, well, because my life kind of collapsed…
Since that time, and for years, things haven’t been really good for me. Almost everything in my life collapsed. During all those years I played video games but not as much as usually did before that, I also stopped engaging with the world of gaming for most of that time.
During that time, I thought a lot about this group from the days I engaged heavily with the gaming world. Since then, lots of things changed in the gaming industry, and the world; and I can’t say it has been for better, in my opinion.
After lots of work, I have managed to turn my life around somehow, and I finally managed to improve my situation.
I’m writing this, not just as introduction to myself, but as something else as well…
We gamers, that have passion for games, games mean something for us more than a hobby to kill time, it’s part of who we are.
Many of us have played video games for years and years, but at the same time, we also have our real life, and our real issues, and sometimes, they take us away from our passion, gaming.
At times like these, it can feel like we are lonely, and on our own, especially because for many of us gaming was mostly a solitary hobby, since before every game was turned into a short-living multiplayer mode that’s a cash cow for its company rather than a real creative product.
The thing that I have come to realise through out the years though is that I’m not on my own actually, my fellow gamers have their own real life issues as well. I grow up, they grow up. I get distracted, they get distracted. I feel worn out, they feel worn, but what unites us in the end is a real passion for gaming, it’s not just something we fancied at one point in time, but a real passion.
That realisation helped me a lot, because sometimes, especially these days, it can feel as if things are moving quickly and that one is missing out, and the sad thing is that many gaming companies turned their products into bland, generic products that seem to come off an industrial conveyor belt.
Because of that, I’m writing this hoping that it will give anyone who reads hope that there’s light by the end of the tunnel and that a real passion for gaming is a fire that’s always burning even when we drift away from it.
I want to finish this by wishing you all well, and warning you that I’ll be going now to revive old posts and give my opinion on everything I set my eyes upon on this site! You have been warned!
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