Why I Stopped Playing Video Games - Video Game Commentary

What's up guys? I decided to do a throwback video and do a video game commentary. That's literally what the first 300, probably 350 videos on this channel are, are just simply video game commentaries. And that's honestly how I got my first 6, probably 7,000 subscribers. Uh, you know, a huge part of this channel is video game commentaries. It's what a lot of you guys used to know me as. And so I decided to make a video talking about why I stopped playing video games, and what better way to do that than talking over video games I used to play a long time ago. So I guess I should start off by saying Call of Duty was the first video game I ever really got into, and of all the time I've ever spent playing video games, probably over 90% of it has been gone— has been put into Call of Duty. Uh, that's just the first game I ever got addicted to, and once Call of Duty started dying off, like Advanced Warfare— that game sucked— my love for video games died off. And really, the last year I played video games, I was purely playing them just for footage for YouTube. Like, I've— I— it's slowly over the years it went from I love video games and because I love video games I made YouTube videos to I love YouTube and because I love YouTube I'm gonna continue playing video games just so I can keep posting stuff about them. Um, you— if you watch my videos you can see that transition. Advanced Warfare, I hated it, and that's just— that killed it. That just, you know, killed my passion for video games. If I— passion's the correct word, I guess addiction to video games. I don't— like, I don't care if you play video games. I'm never gonna, you know, hate on anyone for playing them. I feel like though, now that I'm kind of growing up, I'm almost 18, I feel like there's better ways to spend my time. Like, I really don't need to be spending 15 hours a week playing video games. I feel like video games, just playing them in general, doesn't benefit me. But you know, that's hypocritical because I spent so many years playing it, and you know, I sit behind a computer editing YouTube videos for hours every day. But You know, to me, I can justify spending hours making YouTube videos because I'm growing a YouTube channel, I'm growing, you know, you know, but just sitting behind my TV playing video games, I don't know, I just can't really justify spending hours upon hours doing that every week. And I'm not trying to come off as the most productive person because I definitely do tons of things that are a waste of time that I shouldn't do, but video games was one of those things I just put too much time into. And it really doesn't benefit my life, you know. So that was one of the bigger reasons why I stopped, and that's one of the reasons I made the transition from doing video game commentaries like I'm doing now to IRL videos. Because once I, you know, once I started hating video games, I wasn't gonna be one of those people that just kept going with it. I, you know, I loved YouTube, so I just had to make that switch. I was like, I don't play video games anymore, I just gotta stop uploading them and start doing IRL videos, which caused You know, a lot of drama at first. A lot of people were like, "Oh, I don't like IRL videos, do video games." But I think a lot of people would agree now that, uh, my IRL— my in real life videos are like way better than these video game commentaries. These are just so generic. It's not original, and it's really hard to become known on YouTube doing video game commentaries. They just— it's too generic. It's not unique at all. You can't get anywhere doing this in 2015. Wow, this video's already been going on for 3 minutes. These commentaries are definitely a lot easier to do. Like, IRL videos, they take so much time to edit and stuff. This, I just gotta record the audio and slap it on some gameplay. These are a lot easier to make, and I can tell that's why a lot of people want to post video game commentaries, because honestly, they're just lazy and they know these are super easy to do. But anyways, I'm not trying to call anyone out. I will say though, like, um, I do play a couple video games occasionally still. Like, I didn't cut cold turkey. I play Boom Beach on my phone, I actually really enjoy that app. I spend about, you know, 5-10 minutes a day on that. And then on top of that, I occasionally play a casual game of League of Legends. I don't know, I really enjoy League of Legends still. And, you know, I still spend about an hour to 2 hours a week playing video games, but it's nowhere near like the 20+ hours I'd put in every week. And I feel like, I don't know, I feel like it's a good decision. I feel like, you know, not sitting by my computer, or not sitting by my TV playing Call of Duty 20 hours a day is actually, you know, benefiting me because I do other things like make YouTube videos and YouTube money. But, uh, yeah, I don't know, like, like I said, I didn't like completely cut them. I still occasionally play casual game of League, and I'm not against video games. I just feel like there's more productive things you could be doing if at all possible you could give them up. And, uh, that's pretty much that. Hopefully you guys enjoyed the throwback commentary. Let me know what you think. And that's the video.