What would it take for you to stop playing games?

Losing my arms or going blind.

My death.

A nuclear war, or any other desctruction of cheap sources of electricity.

" If they only came out digitally "

Not much. If I take this month into consideration, I beat three games, and then spent the remaining time either trying to work on projects, learning to cook, and finish a book. Gaming is what I do, not who I am.

If I had to start paying full price for them.  And if the Wii and its follow on gets a non-optional achievement system.

" I love games and have been playing them all my life. I think I'll be playing games for the rest of my life but thinking about it in depth there are a couple things that would make me stop playing games or severely lessen my enjoyment of playing and collecting video games: - If the next generation of consoles doesn't have backwards compatibility, trophy/achievement carry over, or downloadable games transfer I can see myself becoming less and less interested in gaming as that trend would probably continue.  - If gaming became ridiculously more expensive than it already is, say $100 for a new game.  - Faulty hardware from all fronts, I don't want to get a device that will break in 1-2 years.   What about you guys? Any reasons you would leave gaming behind? "

I would stop gaming if games stop being fun, because that's why I play games.  Or when I physically can't play games anymore, that would be a sad time for me.

Death would stop me from playing games, but other then that I don't think there is much. If I'd go blind I could switch to text adventures and if I'd lose all my arms I'd use an eyetracker or joystick and play some point&click adventures.
 
Disabilities aside, DRM is really the main issue right now that makes me avoid games. So far I haven't bought a single game on Wii, PSN, Steam or XboxLive and I'd prefer to avoid that for the future. Maybe one day they will figure out a DRM scheme that isn't full of lock-in and potential of losing all your games, but till they at least managed to transfer all those download titles from the current generation to the next, I don't plan to sink any serious amount of money into that stuff.
 
I am also kind of in a "So what?" mood as far as mainstream commercial games are concerned, but that only really holds till a really good game comes along and so far that still happens frequently enough to not throw away my game consoles.

If the innovation just completely stops. That's where I'd lose interest, though I'd probably play some old games still, once in a while. 

Either 500 Million Dollars or Jessica Alba lol.  Other than that nothing.

" @kingzetta said: 

" If they only came out digitally "

Just curious why this matters?  As for me, I think a zombie apocalypse would be fairly compelling reason.  "

 loss of all my appendages,    

At least 50 Million Dollars or 5 rare supercars and a racing license to feel the real need for speed on private test tracks.

If I died I could see that being a problem.

Death.
 
You'll pry that controller/keyboard from my cold dead hands.

 
Nothing could really make me stop gaming. I've been gaming my whole life, and have periods when I game a lot less than others, but I don't think I will ever stop completely.

- Blindness
- Loss of arms/hands
- Death
 
Not much else I can think of.

if i found something fun like a video game that i can do anytime. maybe if something happened like hand/ fingers got cut off.

If my hands fell off. Again.

If I couldn't afford them................ that would probably be it. Also if I became blind.

Finding something more interesting to do.

Physically incapable

Haven't gamed in a month. I really like it but some things are more important.  
I probably could give up easily.

If I lost the financial freedom to spend my little extra cash on games, or if I lost my eyesight. I complain that I don't have enough money to buy all the extra games I want but then have to take a step back and realize that others out there cannot even afford food while i am complaining about a piece of interactive entertainment. So yeah.... if I was in financial trouble I would stop playing games.

" Death.  You'll pry that controller/keyboard from my cold dead hands. "

The only reason I would ever stop is if my love of video games somehow interfered and hindered my relationship with my girlfriend and made me a worse person overall.  Other than that... I will play video games till my hands fall off.

Losing my thumbs or having kids.

I'll always be some sort of gamer, even if I only have an hour or two a week in spare time.  Games will always be me.

I'm never going to stop. Whenever I have some free time and I don't  have anything going on, sitting down on the couch (or PC chair) firing up a game and playing hard until 3am will always be something I'm up for.
 
Getting older, it just seems like lack of time is the biggest enemy here, but I'll still make time for my video games.

The only way I'll stop playing games, is if someone chops off my hands.

Digital Download only

When I get bored of them. Most unlikely but I cannot tell what the future holds.

If I were to go blind all of a sudden.

Not a lot, I already get distracted so easily, I feel bad leaving the console running for like a half hour while I'm away doing something else.

Death

After I have a unibomber style breakdown and move out to a cabin in Montana.

I don't think I can ever really quick gaming. It's too much of my life and with a girlfriend that plays just as many games, there isn't much reason to stop. If we had a baby and my family needed attention I'd adjust the amount of gaming I did but I don't think I can ever stop. 

Being physically unable to continue playing.  That's about it. 

Games I'm interested in stop coming out, which is starting to happen - haven't been interested in a new game since Red Dead Redemption. Have played since then (FIFA games and ME2 re-re-play through) but apart from that my interested in playing games is dying. Hope '11 can rescue it! 

Power outage. 
 
Seriously, though even if I wasn't able to play video games I'd still play games of all shapes and sizes.

A near-death experience with a game console involved?

I stopped playing games seriously for about 3 months last summer, I just burned out and had more fun playing music and spending time on the internet. I dipped in every few weeks to see if I wanted to play anything but it didn't take me long to get bored of anything. The last few months I've got back into gaming, because I've got into Steam. Now my PC is bricked so I'm just playing music and spending time on the internet again. 
 
Video games aren't my primary source of entertainment, I get by just fine without them for long periods of time. Not much is required for me to get bored of them.