“Stop playing!”: 9 phrases gamers can’t hear anymore

Unfortunately, as a gamer, you still have to defend your hobby far too often in front of family and friends. These 9 sentences are thrown at you very often, which you really can’t hear anymore.

Gamers hear a lot of nonsense in their lives, especially from people who have never picked up a controller. It doesn’t matter whether it’s from parents, ignorant friends or employees who don’t understand our passion. The following sentences should never be thrown at a gamer’s head.

This sentence mostly comes in a situation where you never played for hours. Most of the time it’s 15 minutes, 30 minutes or a maximum of 45 minutes that you’ve been in the game, but not for hours! Either it comes from the parents, the partner or younger siblings who want to take the controller in their hands.

This sentence is not only complete nonsense in its meaning, but often contains a negative judgmental undertone. Above all people often say this sentence who have never seriously dealt with the medium. It’s an interactive medium for experiencing great stories, incentivizing problem-solving, realistic simulations, and much more.

wait a minute, no! For example, one study shows that committing an immoral act in the game creates feelings of guilt and shame in the player. Another study demonstrates a similar response and even goes one step further. The study also shows that players who act immorally not only feel guilty, but also become more sensitive to similar moral issues in real life.

And these are just two examples that show that skills acquired from video games can also “bear fruit” in other life situations. Or a successful example is the discovery tour mode from Assassin’s Creed Origins, in which the Egyptian world can be freely explored in order to learn more about its history and daily life.

Again, it’s not the actual sentence that’s the worst, but the subliminal implication that gamers have nothing more valuable in life. Strangely, these people think gamers don’t have friends, family, jobs, or even life. To all people who should really believe it: Please bury this superstition!

This phrase is mostly heard from fellow human beings when players loudly complain or rejoice. Mostly, however, when a certain aggressiveness is already present in the gamer. The hate felt for the game then shifts to the person who said that unnecessary phrase, and many gamers are bound to be thinking, “What did you just say?!” Because it’s more than just a game! We put tears, sweat and countless hours into the game, it means something to us.

So many people in a gamer’s life say it. Be it parents, work colleagues or friends. Apparently, video games aren’t for grown-ups, and things that were fun as a kid are suddenly no longer allowed to be done once a certain age has been reached. The logic makes perfect sense – doesn’t it!

Okay, the sentence can be interpreted positively or negatively. If a friend with skills and gaming experience says that phrase, that’s perfectly fine. Here someone is offering to help. But when a friend who has never touched a controller says it, it is pure disrespect! And the worst thing is that the first thing that person asks is, “What does this button do?”

This phrase is said less and less these days due to digital downloads, but many gamers still own physical game discs. And some people in the household think that these discs will survive sandpaper and continue to function properly afterward. No, the “CD” is not just a disc, it represents much more!

Why shouldn’t you watch someone play? People also watch others doing sports. What’s the difference here? Especially when watching pro players, it makes absolutely no difference. We watch people do an activity because they tend to be better at it than we are and enjoy what they can do.