Any other hobbies cause you to lose players?

[TerraDave]

and a new job.

having to move where the work or the SO is going.


birth, death, and money.

Right. I have never lost a player from gaming, it even seems funny typing it.

Though I can't really say that things like CCGs have acted like a "gateway game" either. To a certain degree, the broader comic/sci fi/fantasy culture(s) has.

 

[Dextolen]

World of Warcraft is decimating the local gaming(role-playing and wargaming) populations. My group has suffered casualties and the guys that used play at the FLGS are gone becuase of WoW.

Both WoW and poker. Both major distractions to the two groups I'm a part of. :\

 

[AntiStateQuixote]

Bye, bye players . . .

Had a fairly long running DnD 2e campaign disintegrate when we all started playing Vampire LARP in the early 1990's.
Lost Vampire LARP players to Magic: the Gathering in the mid 1990's.
Lost Vampire LARP players to EverCrack, er, EverQuest in the late 1990's.
Lost DnD player to . . . not sure what . . . he just kind of disappeared about 18 months ago.

Hmm . . . we're STILL short of a player. See my signature . . . join our game.

 

[Wombat]

I have over the years lost gamers to...

marriage
children
children's activities (dance, softball, etc.)
golf
poker
March Madness
NASCAR
grad school

but never to the trends you mentioned -- they tend to be parallel to, not in place of, the gaming desires, at least with the folks I have gamed with.

 

[arscott]

My HS group dissolved senior year because everybody else would rather play Magic and watch Dragonball Z during their lunch hour.

 

[Desdichado]

Not permanently, but our group went through some significant "downtime" when we first started getting Xboxes and Halo.

 

[palleomortis]

Soccer.

Really? I'm sixteen, and I can see that becuase we have a leage to play in. Most people here are older, so I'm sorry if it offends, but how old are your players?

 

[alleynbard]

Not gaming related per se but every summer I lose players to the Ren Faire. Actually we all work there so it makes gaming very difficult.

Ohio Renaissance Festival, how thou make me mad!

 

[Laslo Tremaine]

I just had to quit one of my gaming groups because I have started refereeing women's roller derby!

http://www.ratcityrollergirls.com

But so far it's only kept me out of one of the three games I am in...

 

[Ahnehnois]

Really? I'm sixteen, and I can see that becuase we have a leage to play in. Most people here are older, so I'm sorry if it offends, but how old are your players?

This was leading up to last year-my senior year of high school. A player (then a junior) basically showed up only rarely due to soccer matches. He didn't "quit" per se for some time, but that was basically it. It was a shame because he was a good player. My group went from having an outlandish ten down to five or so due to various other things, but not other gaming-type stuff, and had pretty bad attendance due to things from family commitments to Boy Scout events to grounded players, and many other things.

Currently I am 19, ending my first year of college, and (hopefully temporarily) out of D&D for various reasons.