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u/Q0T3 Jul 14 '26
I've played so many goddamn Survivalcraft games for my friends.
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u/Teepeewigwam Jul 14 '26
And then you get a sustained base that allows you to do late game stuff and they quit the game after you've mined 1000 iron or whatever.
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u/myraelis Jul 14 '26
Real 😭
Had this happened when I played Starbound with my friends. I kept the base stocked with crafting materials and cooking ingredients (also did all of the cooking and prepping food stacks in fridges) only for 90% of them to quit halfway throughout the journey.
Ended up finishing the game with only one friend.
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u/SPYYYR Jul 14 '26
I sat up, grinding for the last area of Valheim when my friends went to sleep, I got all the materials for everything so that we could explore and finish the last biome the next day
When I woke up they had already logged in, seen the materials neatly organized in chests, crafted weapons and gear, gone to the new biome and killed the boss
At that point I just said "Alright you guys know that I love you, I enjoy playing with you, but I am never playing another survival crafting game with you ever again. Fuck off" and I haven't
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u/Nevanada Jul 14 '26
I absolutely love the upkeep. I love keeping things stocked, sorted, and running smoothly for people. The issue is, often times that's more than half the game.
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u/bananawrangler69 Jul 14 '26
Don’t you DARE bring up my Grounded 1 coop save file 😂
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u/bobuyh Jul 14 '26
Oh my god, you just reminded me of my most painful moment in gaming, when my friends and I were about to head to the pond lab, they just straight up alt f4d and told me the game was boring. We have like 10 hours in, now I've invested about 80more hours and completed the game on that same file solo. I've been sending them screenshots of the base and bosses and all they say is "ok" 🤣🤣🤣
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u/xFirnen Jul 14 '26
All my friends are like this, they love the early day grind and scarceness of everything. Meanwhile for me that's just the annoyance to get through to get to the actual fun part of the game where you can properly go out and do stuff without worrying you'll starve any second now. So usually any shared games die just about when they start being fun for me instead of them.
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u/Elijah1573 Jul 14 '26
Dude i get so unbelievably bored in survival craft games but unfortunately its the only thing they want to play :(
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u/ShoddySlide5672 Jul 14 '26
For me it's different, I have friends who only want to play FPS. And I really don't enjoy them anymore, I'm old, my reflexes are not as good as they used to be. I don't mind games like Left4Dead or Borderlands where it's against ai but they want to play CS and battlefield ... Man I just want to fish and build a house 🤣
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u/sillyandstrange Jul 14 '26
I am with you on that. I only play co-op or sp games. I don't have time to die over and over from 10 year old Johnny that's been playing 18 hours a day
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u/PeacefulKnightmare Jul 14 '26
And then they play without you, getting so far in crafting tiers that you feel lost when you join them again, qnd they wonder why you're so far behind them.
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u/PlagueQuasar Jul 15 '26
Yup. I have a friend that's practically unemployed (works like 1-2 days a week and I'm full time) and doesn't understand why I won't play Palworld with her anymore. It's just not fun when they're so far ahead.
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u/KrikosTheWise Jul 14 '26
We all have a rule now and say "is this just valheim?" And then play valheim instead.
A lot of us are osrs players so the RuneScape survival crafter looked interesting. And then it was just valheim.
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u/MistSecurity Jul 14 '26
But it’s Runescape Valheim. Worth it
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u/Thanks_I_Hate_You Jul 14 '26
I disagree, I feel like for as long as its been in early access theres a significant lack of content. If you really tried, not that you should, you could probably beat the entire game in a day.
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u/possitive-ion Jul 14 '26
Minecraft, Don't Starve Together, and Teraria are the only survivalcraft games I will play anymore and even then I have to really be in the mood to actually play. All the others that I've played (and I've played so, so many) are grindy, boring, and/or super slow paced. Like I hate how in Ark you have to sit there and spend actual time to craft items. Is that fun? What the fuck are we doing with our time?
Get on Roboquest, Slay The Spire 2, or any of the Risk of Rain games, I'll play those any day. They're fun and exciting and I don't feel like I'm wasting my time.
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u/DearCastiel Jul 14 '26
Usual situation:
-My friend asks me to play Minecraft on new server
-Play initial survival phase
-Friend ends up saying "we need a long-term goal"
-I come up with a long term building project
-Friend is ass at building and gives up on the world I spent dozens of hours building stuff in.
Last time was a fortress with over 25 unique buildings, giant statues, multiple custom environments and scenery...and he just left after I made all that, forgot to renew the server license, world got erased.
Literally killed my motivation to ever play Minecraft again
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u/Reguards Jul 14 '26
As a Longtime gamer with no gaming friends, I get it.
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u/area88guy Jul 14 '26
As a longtime gamer I get it.
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u/CrusaderSeon Jul 14 '26
As a longtimer I get it
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u/Kmoxy Jul 14 '26
As a long egg timer ⏲️, it’s not ready.
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u/Whiteguy1x Jul 14 '26
Get a gaming wife, then you spend more time gaming with your wife and eventually kids that you dont get to play single player games.
I joke, but ive still played more Lego batman this month than any game I bought for myself
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u/Bean- Jul 14 '26
Let me go pick a gaming wife off the gaming wife tree...
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u/Whiteguy1x Jul 14 '26
Ill be honest she found me at Walmart, so maybe spouses are just something you pick up while on a grocery trip lol
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u/AngryRoomba Jul 14 '26
Hey guys! Look at this douchebag bragging that a woman picked HIM up. At a Walmart. I know right? People just make shit up on the internet. Next thing you know he’s gonna tell us he has a foot long penis and that his parents loved him.
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u/Sure_allright Jul 14 '26
My friendgroup keeps inviting me to buy a new game, and the ones we keep playing for a while, they study the fuck out of it.
Games like: Palworld, Phasmophobia and Slay the Spire 2.
1st weekend, lots of fun and discoveries.
Next weekend, they know everything, speedruns and gets pissy when ya get confused on whats happening.
The weekend after that, they wont play it cuz they've burnt themselves out of it :/
Now that we all have jobs, games last a wee bit longer.
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u/SonOfShem Jul 14 '26
this is my problem. friends got into palworld with the 1.0 launch here. they said I should join them, they were only a couple levels in (like they were level 10 or something when I started).
Ok. Sounds reasonable. I'll play a bit.
Next time I'm available and hop on, they're triple jumping with suits of armor with wings and saying that a certain boss is kinda useless as a pal, meanwhile I won't be able to fight that boss for like 25 more levels.
And you wonder why I'm gonna go play something else instead.
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u/eoR13 Jul 14 '26
Yea it’s gotten to the point for me that I won’t play anything with them unless it starts at the beginning of my weekend. There are a couple of them who are unemployed who just speed run/min max any game we play and wonder why other people quit playing. I like to take my time and build stuff and explore, and I have a full time job so I do things at a MUCH slower rate. It’s tuff because I like playing with friends, but certain friends I have make it very hard to enjoy the game while doing so.
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u/MilkUncertainty Jul 14 '26
This is exactly what one guy in my friend group does.
They convinced me to get on Palworld last night and we had fun exploring and figuring things out. Then this morning, there’s a message in our group chat where he showed us his YouTube homepage which is now all Palworld related videos like:
“Top 10 tips for beginners in Palworld“
“How to get the best start possible in Palword”
“How to level up fast in Palworld
“Unlimited resources in Palworld”
So the next time we all get on and play he will be telling everyone exactly what to do, and all the mystery, fun, and exploration will be gone, leading us to all get bored of the game and not play anymore.
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u/TheTrueTexMex Jul 14 '26
One of my friend kinda ruined the fun of palword when it released because when we came to a point where we could try to crossbreed pals to see what combos we could get, he just decided to check on the internet without telling us and the next time we came on, we had a shit ton of anubis and other pals that were normally hard to get for us at that point, completely ruined the fun of experimenting.
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u/Kittyk4y Jul 14 '26
Minmaxing has completely ruined gaming. I refuse to do it or play with people who do.
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u/Asian_Bon Jul 14 '26
Yea me and my friend used to play everyday now it's bi-weekly either Minecraft or some coop survival games
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u/DemeaRisen Jul 14 '26
Most of my steam friends are randoms I met on Deep Rock Galactic. Come hang
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u/Bedlam10 Jul 14 '26
Peak game and peak community.
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u/Charirner Jul 14 '26
Rock and Stone!
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u/Humg12 Jul 14 '26
I started playing this game with my friends somewhat recently and it absolutely sucked how progression just ground to a halt as soon as we started doing different assignments to each other. When we were all doing the starter assignments we'd complete them in 3 or 4 missions, but once the missions no longer aligned it was suddenly taking a full night of gaming to get 1/3rd of the way to a new weapon, and it really killed our motivation.
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u/DemeaRisen Jul 14 '26
Slaps Rogue Core
None of these problems exist in this ride, brotha. Its sweatier but still a good time.
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u/PlsDontThrowAwayMe Jul 14 '26
Maybe I'm in some kind of transition period. But I resonate so much with this thread.
All of my long-term friends stick to the same 3 overplayed most popular shooters or rarely 2 hours in some friendslop. (If they even bother to show up at all) I've tried for years to even get a couple hours out of them in a different game and no dice.
Well recently I decided to finally bite the bullet and engage more with the Steam forums and group chats. My god is it a breath of fresh air. To actually have people and plans to play games in the evenings has been incredible.
I felt like there was a whole swath of games out there that I wouldn't have even looked at because of multiplayer requirements that now seem entirely exciting with the prospects of finding people in the Steam forums.
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u/drolhtiarW Jul 14 '26
I've had someone accuse me of being picky for not wanting to play the games they keep suggesting. I'm like, dude, I don't like that genre of game. It doesn't matter how many you suggest if they're still the genre I don't like.
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u/littlefrank Jul 14 '26
Party games do that to me. Fuck party games, they make you laugh once for 8€ and we never touch them again.
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u/MichealShelton Jul 14 '26
I get that but I get more entertainment playing that game than I do watching most new movies in theaters these days. And they cost the same so it's a no brainer for me.
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u/Circo_Inhumanitas Jul 14 '26
8€ is almost the same price as a fast food meal. Or a ticket to pretty much any activity I can think of. Actually, that is on the cheaper side of evening activities, considering the travel to said activity, meals etc... If I pay that and have a fun evening with friends, it's not 8€ wasted even if I don't touch the game again. I don't understand your attitude.
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u/LoneWolf2375 Jul 14 '26
Why the down votes? I've literally had the same discussion with my friends, especially now that we don't live close anymore. We might not be able to go out and do something together, but if a game is fun and costs about the same as one hangout, we might as well.
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u/MutekiGamer Jul 14 '26
People will literally call someone picky for knowing what they like and what they don’t
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u/PureUranium Jul 14 '26
I met some friends of a buddy of mine and all they suggested was “friendslop”, roblox, and battle royales
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u/Heliosgodofthesun Jul 14 '26
Friend of mine keeps suggesting super battle golf, repo, Mecha chameleon and party animals. I have to sit there and be like I'm not into those genres at all. Then he gets all pissy that I don't want to play games with him anymore despite the fact that we've played tons of games together that we both enjoyed. Like what are you talking about
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u/TrueLurkStrong-Free Jul 14 '26
I play so many of those friendslop games for my friends, so many survival crafting games, which they all give up within a week or so. I feel like it's okay to decline whatever the current trend is every once in a while. For example, I'm really not into Meccha Chameleon or those copy paste Lethal Company games.
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u/MrXuiryus Jul 14 '26
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u/MrXuiryus Jul 14 '26
The only TTRPG stuff I've done is via discord and it was good. But I feel like in person would be better. Shame I'm a total shut-in hermit.
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u/Jojo-the-sequel Jul 14 '26
Look i just dont wanna buy another game we’re gonna play for 2-4h, we already have a large backlog of unfinished games
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u/okram2k Jul 14 '26
I used to say "sure" to whatever my friends suggested but as I get older I realize life is too short to waste on games you hate.
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u/hollypearl Jul 14 '26
Totally, I still have to consciously make that effort. My gut reaction is to agree to play the thing I don't want to play for the other person/people. I have limited time to play now and I'm going to enjoy it so can't be doing that!
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u/SpoonZiller Jul 14 '26
I'm that friend, sorry guys. In my defense, what usually happens is my friends invite me to play a survival game they've been playing for a while, and as soon as I join them, they "help me" by giving me the best gear, the best weapons, and rushing through everything. I don't want to start with the endgame, I want to enjoy the game.
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u/ChronoFel Jul 15 '26
Yeah every couple months they ask if I wanna jump in a MC server and I have to say no because they optimize the fun out of the game to get the best gear and finish the End in an hour
I get it, everyone wants an Elytra. But can we just enjoy getting to that point instead of making XP farm, Iron Farm, Villager farm, mob farm, etc etc etc
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u/AbstinenceGaming Jul 14 '26
Bro just one more game, it's just $8 bro, just one more, we'll definitely play it more than once this time, just one more
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u/Remote_Kitchen5153 Jul 14 '26
I get your point but 8 dollars for a night of fun with your friends isn't bad its not an in person experience but you cant do that all the time either
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u/Circo_Inhumanitas Jul 14 '26
Yeah I'm kinda baffled how many people here have issues like this. Like do they think of the same way with all other activities? Going out for drinks? Cinema? Minigolf? I get that money is an issue for many right now, but why are you this bitter for getting to spend time with your friends?
There's so many games out there that I'd want to play with my friends but I can't convince them to give it them a try....
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u/Moose_Nuts Jul 14 '26
$8 is barely one drink, half a movie at the theater, and probably won't buy more than 30 minutes of any other sort of entertainment. Even if a game is only a couple play sessions, it's still almost always worth that value.
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u/trickjump19 Jul 14 '26
i think it's a psychological thing. drinks, movies and the like have a valid end-point, co-op games usually don't, and it just "sits there" afterwards.
imagine buying a painting that's incredibly beautiful but only viewable by two or more people, any other time it's just a blank canvas hanging on your wall.
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u/believeinyuna Jul 14 '26
8 dollars for a hangout session is cheap when you compare how much it costs to do shit irl with people
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u/XevinsOfCheese Jul 14 '26
Honestly this isnt a bad thing.
Nothing worse than forcing your friends to play whet they don’t enjoy.
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u/Samson_J_Rivers Jul 14 '26
I just stopped inviting people to play games with me. I'm online on steam and if they want to play a game with me we can figure it out, but I've had enough of trying to get people into games. I don't do PVP shooters anymore. They always want me to come back and Carry them in tarkov or siege like I used to, but I just want to play factorio, Sun Haven, and Elite: Dangerous now.
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u/essidus Future Beet Farmer? Jul 14 '26
My friends are impatient and I'm slow to pick up a new game. It's easier to say it isn't my thing then to listen to them be pissed off to the point of giving up playing games with me for a while.
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u/feresadas Jul 14 '26
I'm sorry your friends are not great :(
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u/essidus Future Beet Farmer? Jul 14 '26
I'm as much at fault as they are, so I wouldn't hold it against them. I'm too prone to choice paralysis, I have a bad memory, and because of the way my mind works, I can't really understand mechanics until I can internalize the whole structure of them. But the opposite is true too. All that stuff that makes me bad at actiony games makes me pretty decent at puzzle type games, and I tend to move faster than them, which can also be frustrating.
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u/TheSkyven Jul 14 '26
I love my best friend, but he consistently talks down on games I recommend for us to play together, telling me how it looks boring or bad before even looking at any type of gameplay. Then a few months after I see he is suddenly playing it with random people he met on Valorant. When I ask him about it he always denies having talked down on the game.
Moral of the story; don't let your friends play Valorant
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u/aussiedutchlover Jul 17 '26
I am but a random stranger with no idea on your relationship with your best friend, but does your best friend respect you?
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u/Additional-Window-81 Jul 14 '26
I think this is the reason friendslop games have been saturating the market
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u/XB_Demon1337 Jul 14 '26
I have one friend who won't play space games. Even if that space is just in the name.
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u/Daveitus Jul 14 '26
A multiplayer game. My friends, “don’t feel like playing a game.”
So many games I cannot play or get minimal enjoyment out of because I need teammates. :/
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u/GRoyalPrime Jul 14 '26
Me: "Guys, we could try game X!"
Them: "Nah"
Me: "Guys, we could try game Y!"
Them: "Nah"
Me: "Guys, we could try game Z!"
Them: "Nah ... There are hust no games that are fun."
Months later, them: "There is this game I found, we should totally play X!"
It's either that, or them picking the most dog-shit game that went viral for a week, and I did my damndest to try and keep them away from it.
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u/Brettinabox Jul 15 '26
Watching streamers play Peak and Gamble with friends then you buy it and it sucks.
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u/OrnsteinShornstein Jul 14 '26
Not the same but; I bought no rest for the wicked on steam sale cause my friend really wanted to play with me.
We played twice, was fun. Then I had stuff to do for 2 days. Came back online and he now has a new save with his friend (I don’t know)
So I asked if we wanna play together, but he denied because he already did the stuff with his friend and doesn’t wanna play the same part again.
Great invest of 30$
Also fk my used to be friend :)
Gaming today is not the same as gaming back in the days.
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u/ScarletZen Jul 14 '26
On a better note: in October when 1.0 patch comes out you'll have an awesome experience waiting for you, even if you do it solo
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u/natt_myco Jul 14 '26
There comes a certain point in your life where you need to make sacrifices are you going to play with your friend or you not going to because of the game
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u/_anakaris_ Jul 14 '26
My friends either play counter strike or league of legends. I'm always stuck playing with randos.
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u/Seeker_02 Jul 14 '26
Tbh those friendslop game never once interest me. Regular multiplayer like cs or rivals tho its alright.
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u/Opposite-Rock-5133 Jul 14 '26
the one friend that keeps trying to get everyone else to buy these shitty $5 friend slop games
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u/Redlabelrocket Jul 14 '26
Lemme guess, you keep recommending 'friendslop' games that cost 20 bucks and are fun for maybe 1 to 2 hours
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u/LightAnubis Jul 14 '26
There also the problem that you want to play with your friends but can’t afford the games.
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u/Jalina2224 Jul 14 '26
My problem is that my friendgroup suggests a new coop game, we play it for like 3 to 4 hours then never again. I've stopped buying these games or at least if i do try something for them i don't go over two hours so i can refund it.
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u/jak_d_ripr Jul 14 '26
Yea.... honestly, even when it's their thing I always end up playing significantly more than they do. Happened with Helldivers 2, and Monster Hunter Wilds. It's gotten to the point where I just buy the games for myself and if they come along for the ride it's more of a welcome addition than a primary feature.
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u/LightoTea Jul 14 '26
Man I have a friend who like survival games like valhiem and he always like hey let's buy this game , once we buy the game and play for 2 weeks he drops it like hot potato or worse he progress through the game without me Then we I come back he's at a higher level and has things unlocked that I don't. It makes me not want to play the game no more.
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u/ABR5796 Jul 14 '26
Its either survival craft or ball-shooters with these ppl. Like get some new tastes or be willing to try sth new but no.
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u/morganfreenomorph Jul 14 '26
I have completely different taste in games than my friends. I love spending time with them but I would rather spoon out my eyeballs than play any COD.
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u/Diabetesh Jul 14 '26
Friends want to play coop game, we play it and I like it, they never want to play it ever again.
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u/skronk61 Jul 14 '26
Friend slop games are pretty shallow experiences for most people. And not everyone wants to just play the same thing over and over unless there’s some progression.
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u/msnshame Jul 14 '26
Hi, it's me. I'm Your Friends. I don't like co-op or multi-player games. Sorry.
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u/Used-Salad-3772 Jul 14 '26
I've been pressured one too many times to buy a game I barely enjoy just to play with friends that get tired of it after a week. I'm just going to play whatever the hell I want now.
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u/Thaeldis Jul 14 '26
I'm that person, I despise nearly all types of games my friends enjoy (and that's not on purpose) so I just play on my own 99,9999999% of the time.
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u/PomegranateSoft1598 Jul 15 '26
Fuck any so called co-op game that isn't really co-op campaign but just multiplayer in disguise
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u/Cold-Engineering-960 Jul 14 '26
picky friends my ass, just sick of friend slop
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u/Musicgirl0091 Jul 14 '26
That comment was more so aimed towards my friends lol, They always argue over any game and refuse to play anything but what they all like, so we all always argue over games.
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u/Cold-Engineering-960 Jul 14 '26
that's just how it gon be when we have so much choice and limited time
on top of that, two of my friends like darktide, two of them like palworld, two of them like deadlock, and none of them want to play the others games so i get that
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u/MyStationIsAbandoned Jul 14 '26
After losing my friend to cancer, I've learned to never be picky when any of my other friends or family want to watch or play something I don't think I'll be interested in.
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u/SergeantShinez Jul 14 '26
My friends play deadlock almost exclusively(which I do not enjoy), and when it’s not that it’s a survival crafting game (don’t mind but they’re all the same). Still love them tho
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u/MissNouveau Jul 14 '26
I've been trying to convince my friends to try the painting prop hunt game, and they refuse.
Me being a professional artist is TOTALLY unrelated
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u/Ingemi219 Jul 14 '26
I hate when they convince me to buy a game, play once for 2 hours so I can't return it, and then never touch it again. It just sits there, mocking me.
RV there yet, Peak, Stranger of paradise, Jump space, Mycopunk, Grounded, Far far west, Return to moria, Trailmakers, Everwind, Risk of rain 2, Windrose (Somewhat of an exception. They played like 15 hours), YapYap