Re: I am done with this game

@Balladalidila

"I would assume that the addiction is to the small but continuous dopamine- and adrenaline kicks"

I never once got a dopamine high from a video game no matter how audacious the win. I hate losing, but that doesn't mean I love winning. I know too much about video games to take any real joy from a "win."

No, I would call it, for most of us, just good old-fashioned co-dependence. I don't play for a high. I play because I've always played and I am a creature of routine. I try to keep it low-stakes because, as you say, one habit can be easily replaced with another. And I find video games to be somewhat less debilitating and more socially acceptable than, say, alcohol or gambling.