Comments on: Why I Quit Playing Need For Speed: No Limits

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:06:00 +0000

Hi Joseph, thank you for sharing your experience.

I’m in a similar situation now to where you were before you wrote this, although my escapism into gaming has already played it’s part in the complete breakdown of my life. Starting in the late seventies and unfortunately continuing to this very day with countless mind numbing game titles along the way. My marriage eventually failed (luckily no children to get hurt by this), I’ve forgotten how to communicate with people or how to even look after myself properly.

I wish I could find work to do that grabbed me in the same way that repetitive games do, because if I don’t do something very soon I will become homeless and that scares the heck out of me, but seemingly not enough to stop playing?!

There doesn’t seem to be any help out there for this, it’s just not taken seriously at all at least not in the UK and people will say “ohh just grow up, gaming’s for kids”, damn, I’m in my fifties now and seriously frightened about how this ends.

Anyway just wanted to say thank you for putting this out there. Currently have 195 imaginary cars in my pointless imaginary garage so you can imagine how many hours in I am, but please don’t because I don’t want you even thinking about this game.

By: Marton

Marton — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 09:35:11 +0000

Hi Joseph

Thanks for this post, I have been trying to delete this game for the past 3 months but every time I try I think of that super car that needs just 2 more BP unlock. Then I convince myslef that after that car that will be it, once that car is unlocked then you’re like let me just wait till I maxed it and see what it is capable of doing. I have become so obssesed with this game that I even dream of it, especially during special events. The whole week all you think about is how to finish a chapter and spend your gold. Today, with just 3 tickets to unlock the new M5 from vault events, I deleted the game.

By: Joshua Perez

Joshua Perez — Fri, 14 May 2021 01:27:49 +0000

In reply to Collo. Wow brother this made me realize I could start a addiction I better stop now lol thank you

By: Collo

Collo — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 21:27:04 +0000

Yep, all the games without an actual end is an addiction exploit game… We should go back in time when we actually paid a game then played and fought with the final boss and that’s it…

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 16:01:37 +0000

Hi Joseph. First of all, I want to thank you from my heart for writing this blog and I would like to share my story with you. I started playing Need for Speed: No Limits in February 2021. I was addicted to it in a blink of an eye and it was really thrilling. For me, Need For Speed: No Limits was the first game that I spent real money on and it felt wrong the second I had bought a Google Play Card. Still, I kept playing with my freshly acquired VIP 4 and I was really into the game. One day, I was searching for a guide about All Access Passes and I found your blog. At first, I wanted to leave the site as it was not what I was searching for, but something kept me reading your blog until the end and I was really moved by your experiences. Sadly, at the end of the day I had already forgotten about it and I repressed the thought of it. Playing Need for Speed: No Limits became so time consuming, because there was always something I could do: replay races, race in the underground or wait “one last time” for a ticket in vault events, as I was playing late into the night.
I am currently 15 years old (turning 16 in August) and I was videochatting with some friends yesterday evening. As we talked, I realized that almost all of them were doing something productive in their free time and that they were teaching themselves things like playing the guitar, programing, and they are all reading a lot of books. This realisation made me feel empty, uneducated and boring. As I woke up this morning, I still had a lot of thoughts about that buzzing in my head and while showering, I made a few resolutions: I wanted to stop wasting my time and I wanted to become more like them. Then I remembered your blog and I knew exactly what I had to do. I symbolically activated an All Access Pass and I started a race. I then crashed into a wall, quit the race and thought: I have already raced my last race. I deleted Need for Speed: No Limits from my smartphone, along with all of my other video games and I guess I don’t have to tell you how good it feels.

Thank you, Joseph, for writing this blog and thank you for sharing your personal experiences, you have helped me a lot! Today I started reading a new book and I am proud to say: I am now entering a new chapter in my life.

By: eli capota

eli capota — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:36:01 +0000

joseph –

your post about moving made me come to your site – – didn’t even know you had one. now that y’all will be moving, i’ll be sure to bookmark your page to keep track of you and aniela (since i don’t have facebook) 🙂

i can relate to this post. i used to play sims (i think that’s what it was called) back in middle school. it was ADDICTIVE like anything. didn’t like what it was turning me into (angry and upset when pulled away from it by my mom; waster of time and always arguing with my siblings that it was my turn on the computer). cold turkey was the way i had to quit as well. praise God for the power He gives us to through the Holy Spirit to change to be more and more like Him – people using their time purposefully!