Well, broken arm is an obvious one.

To be honest, I would stop playing Osu if my responsibilities began to pile up. Heading to a 9-5, taking care of a family, and taking care of other personal stuff would take up a large majority of my time. It just wouldn't be feasible to try for a higher rank or even play casually.

responsibilites, family

fortnite 2

Keyboard, i have a really trash one that i never changed since i don't have money for an extra one, remains keys for me to playing (std) are 8 9 and N M. Mouse, ain't going to buy another one. hdd.
Irl stuffs are pretty simple, no free time for myself: cya osu.

nothing can ever drive me away from osu, neither an physical injury nor growing responsibility. even only few hrs of playing is better than completely quitting. it works like a person won't give up music appreciation until he's growing deaf.

being bad

Dying

A better game.

Currently taking a hiatus though i doubt i'd ever leave. unless..

There are a few things that have come up for me. I have inconsistent play time and part of it is just not feeling like it, but there are some real reasons too.

1. Sleep. In the past osu! has interfered with my sleep, or at least made me think that it was. It just makes me feel more "aware" at night even if I don't play before bed, but I still feel rested. It's very strange and it sometimes happens regardless of osu! or not.

2. Burnout/Tilt. In the past I've gotten tilted because I wasn't ranking up quickly enough, but I realized that not only am I not playing consistently enough to really expect huge gains, but the way I play is not super rewarded anyway. I don't farm I just go for sightreads (look at my A ranks) and try to improve my individual skills. Also, I suck at aim so I can't farm that well anyway until I work on that. Basically, rank doesn't equal improving and I can set my own goals. So I don't really stop because of that anymore.

3. Hand pain

This is the main one for me lately. Ever since late last year I had hand pain when I realized I could pass 6* with decent acc, and it was so much more fun than 5*. But I started overdoing it one day and just spamming the hell out of some long intense map and some touhou map to test my stamina and new abilities. But I just went way too hard at the end of the day and played through numbness like a dumby. I didn't have the self-control to play less so my hand just hurt so often I stopped playing altogether.

So yah that's three things that have made me quit before, but I think I've dealt with all of them and now that I'm getting into it again I am taking it really slow (30 min a day for a week) and doing hand exercises before I go into longer sessions.

death

this version of osu! client is no longer used and osu!lazer is now the client. because, my crappy laptop can't run it on 60fps and it would probably has around 16ms input lag.

Probably not having fun on the forums, although seeing all the weird stuff going down in OT, I think that's gonna be a while

Well, I have technically quit. I'm taking a really long hiatus until my life settles down for a bit. For the longest time, I have been playing games as a form of escapism. And osu was just like that. And just like the majority of the games, theres always a time where you are dumstuck into making a fatal decision. That's where the end of the line is drawn. I wish I could continue to play for this pleasent community, but I've learned real life must be prioritized in order to have a safe healthy mindset and body before it's too late.

my sweat and tears destroying my keyboards circuitry

I just lost interest of the game overtime. But the OT forum gave me a reason to stay on the forums.

The pain in my ring finger that has progressively gotten worse over the past few months.

arthritis

Breaking my laptop.. which actually did happen. It has been over half a year without osu!.

Tad Fibonacci wrote:

I just lost interest of the game overtime. But the OT forum gave me a reason to stay on the forums.

this, as well as the FG subforum.

both FG and OT have kept me here. after meeting the people i have, i'm glad i stuck around in the forums there.

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osu! as a community, would probably have to completely reject me somehow. perhaps i'd get silenced forever or banned somehow. otherwise, maybe the community would go to shit or something.

osu! as a game, well, life in general. anything that needs attention, anything that has more importance over the game. personally, this includes my art, my music, and my career in game development.

Probably when sth happens in my life that would require me to stop playing osu. Other than that, I don't see myself stop playing osu!

I play mania more or less casually now and don't expect big gains unless it's the weekend and I'm going ham. On weekdays I play std and am seeing improvement there for now. Once I reach my limit on std the only thing stopping me from quitting osu! would be OT and the effort I put in trying to fix PP. I tried to map for rank, but the ranking criteria is shit so that path is closed unless ranking status is decided via how many unique players play the map instead of judging whether it deserves rank. Sooooo unless touhosu rolls around, I will prob be starting to call quits once I get the PP formula done.

Mostly when you find you want something better to do than this. As a pastime in general, osu is neither relaxing nor rewarding after a certain stage. Sometimes when you look at the pink circle and feel like “this is bringing me more pain than joy”, that’s the start of quitting — or at least taking a long break away from it.

Achromalia wrote:

Tad Fibonacci wrote:

I just lost interest of the game overtime. But the OT forum gave me a reason to stay on the forums.

this, as well as the FG subforum.

both FG and OT have kept me here. after meeting the people i have, i'm glad i stuck around in the forums there.

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osu! as a community, would probably have to completely reject me somehow. perhaps i'd get silenced forever or banned somehow. otherwise, maybe the community would go to shit or something.

osu! as a game, well, life in general. anything that needs attention, anything that has more importance over the game. personally, this includes my art, my music, and my career in game development.

i thought you had to play different games to understand lots of game-works
isnt that right?