Well if you think you could get something else accomplished than gaming, then do it. I know sometimes I feel like I'm shunning my outside social life, but sometimes it really is ok to just vege out and play games. Some people enjoy it like others do reading a book, playing sports, playing chess, painting, etc.

To each their own.

But if you're getting depressed, it's probably not just gaming, but it's your life is in a rut.

One more thing, as a previous MMORPG junky, I lost a lot of touch with reality. My day would consist of literally coming home, sitting on Everquest or Final Fantasy for 8 hours after work/school then bed then rinse and repeat. My friends went off and did stuff, while I'd sit on my ass complaining about the server not being up. It's unfortunate that all I thought about was leveling, or getting epic gear, or what not.

That also made me depressed, I felt just like you said, was wasting my time, but I couldn't stop playing. One day though I just straight up quit cold turkey because I had to though.

But ultimately games should bring you happiness and entertainment, otherwise you're wasting your time and money, and that's not what it's all about.

SemiMaster

I had a time when i was really addicted to MapleStory, only think I could think about was leveling and gear indeed.

I guess you need balance in life as you said. To much is never good...

I very often feel guilty and depressed when playing games. The reason is because I then think I'm wasting my time and could be doing more important things with it... It's funny though, I never feel/think this way when I watch TV the entire day for example.

Anyone else with the same problem?

I very often feel guilty and depressed when playing games. The reason is because I then think I'm wasting my time and could be doing more important things with it... It's funny though, I never feel/think this way when I watch TV the entire day for example.

Anyone else with the same problem?

This is the pc I've put together so far.

I'm confused about all the motherboards. The one I have currently selected seems to be fine but apperantelly it only supports DDR2 upto 800MHZ but the memory I want is 1066MHZ. So I'm looking for a Intel motherboards which will give me alot of headroom to overclock my CPU, GPU and memory. I've been reading and I think the "Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5 Intel P45 (Socket 775)" sounds good (see under Alternatives in spreadsheet), I'd like to know what you guys think...

Thanks

I got a Mac Book pro atm and using pc at work as a web developer so I do lots of coding and quite some photoshopping as well.

OSX has it good and bad sides. The os makes you more productive but ironically I'm so fed up with the mouse acceleration, it so terrible compared to windows. I've tried all kinds of sensitivity settings and even software that alows you to tweak all kinds of mouse setting but I could never get it to work the same as on windows. In photoshop you got lots of small buttons and having to be carefull trying to click each of them on a mac is a pain. Also, photoshop is a bit less responsive on the Mac than on the PC. I very often use both version on the same day so I know.

Anyways, as you can see from my previous post, I'm buying a PC now and thought why not spend some extra Pounds and make it a nice gaming pc as well :)

I'm putting an pc together, see specs here.

I'm probably changing the motherboard but the rest of the hardware is all top notch and the final price is just around £1120. You will have to put it together your self thoough. Otherwise, they got very nice pre built pc on overclockers.co.uk.

Good luck.