This is a simple question that may be hard to answer. What keeps you playing video games? Doesn't matter if you started last week or 20+ years ago (like I did, actually more like over 30 but who is counting).
For me, I prefer older games but play a lot on my Android devices. I still love loading up Streets of Rage 2 and knocking some heads together. For a real challenge I will load up Final Fight and see how far I can get with one man. Other times I am loading up some of the various scrolling shooters on Playstation (Darius, Rayforce, etc). I also love to sit back and just play some Super Mario World on Super Nintendo (I still don't know where they hid the 96th ending/level exit).
Modern consoles often require some form of paid online service to fully enjoy them, then that service is cutoff and fans are left with nothing from that portion. I cannot see buying "Live" games for the Xbox 360 or One knowing that I will eventually not be able to play it because Microsoft shut off the servers. The same can be said for modern PC games that require "verification" with an online server. We also see this on mobile platforms - what happens when those servers are shut down. Are you going to patch the game to no longer require this verification process?
I just like popping a game in and playing. I don't care to sit through 20+ minutes of cutscenes (often that cannot be skipped) before I get to do much more than "speed up the text".
Maybe I am growing out of games. I have tried newer ones but I have lost all interest in playing another First Person Shooter where the only innovation is now it lets me play against 16 other players instead of the competitions 12 to 15 opponents per arena.
What are your thoughts? What keeps you playing?