Catch ALL the Pokémon!

[enigel]

Once I start...

I miss the early days, when playing Pokémon was pure fun. I was participating for the first time in a massive fun and funny cultural trend, I wasn't taking it seriously, and I was having fun.

Hoe do you fight getting addicted to things that are designed - by clever, creative, well-informed people - to be addictive

Comments

[dadi]

I mostly have the opposite problem.. in my brain, addiction and attention deficit battle and usually the second wins, so I totally get distracted by something else after a short time. I am still playing the Pokemon too, though, just that in the boondocks where I live there isn't much action, I have to travel half an hour to get to the next Pokestop, just saying. Let's not even talk about arenas, I have managed to arrive at level 13 without ever understanding how the battling works. The rare times when I am in places where there ARE arenas, they never happen to be my team (blue) and every effort I made to try out a battle ended only in miserable defeat.
I am slowly collecting Pokemons, but mostly the same ones.. seldom something "special" shows up here. Still, I don't give up, which is already something for me :D

So, no, I don't have any advice for you, as I am the type of personality who gives up stuff the moment it is no fun any more, which is why I will never be rich and powerful :D

[misura]

Sorry to say that I have yet to find a way to go back from compulsive playing to fun playing once I'd crossed that line.

(My coping strategies thus far have been either scorched earth (er, by which I mean that I deleted my account with no way back) or, well, running very fast in the opposite direction before I could get hooked. The third option has sometimes been riding it out and finishing the game, but with Pokemon Go, that doesn't really seem possible, so.)

Building up a resistance ('today, I'll spend x hours not playing', 'this week, I'll spend Monday not playing') has occasionally worked for me to slow things down a bit, but ... a depressingly high number of my on-line game experiences have ended with account deletion.