So I have two friends that I met over Monster Hunter 8 years ago. That series has always been important to us, we all bought a Wii U specifically for 3 Ultimate once the Tri servers shut down because we wanted to continue playing together. Time passed and we got burnt out on that game, eventually we didn't play much of anything together but we kept in touch, and over the years we've all become mostly PC gamers. As such we haven't played a MH together since 3U. Years later we see World announced for PC and we freak out, because it's finally a new MH we can play that isn't Freedom Unite emulated (even though I had an absolute blast playing through that hell twice), so we were eagerly awaiting the release date announcement for PC. August 9th is announced, we mark it up on our calendars and praise Capcom for gifting us this beautiful blessing without a hugely agonizing wait. Things didn't really work out for release because we had some holiday timings staggering each other so the soonest we could play was September 9th.
Fast forward to September 9th, one of my friends couldn't even run the game at an acceptable level and I can totally understand his frustration. But we had a solution lined up until he was able to upgrade his GPU. Our friend offered him his gaming laptop to use in the meantime, no problem at all there, the machine's a damn beast. But apparently this isn't good enough for him. He hums and haws about it and claims he'd rather wait until CHRISTMAS to get his new GPU. We all go ****ing ballistic at this point because we've already waited so long, we've missed events as a result and the other friend in our group already declined an offer from his friends to play because he wanted it to be us. Our old hunting crew from 2010.
It was getting clear to me at that point that he was making excuses, or at least, it didn't feel like he was that eager to play with us. He stood us up several times afterwards whenever we tried to arrange an evening to play, and eventually tonight the stars aligned and we were able to log on together and play some ****ing NEW Monster Hunter for the first time since 2013. Except it felt like we practically had to drag him with us. And even better, he was using the ****tiest starting gear, and carted several times on our hunts. I don't mind carting. I'm not an elitist. Sometimes it's even fun to cart if it's a clip-worthy moment. But this was beyond ridiculous. He had made minimal effort to catch up with us, we had to carry him up to the point where we wanted to pick up from tonight and actually make PROGRESS, but we barely made any.
So like. Why is he so reluctant to play with us all of a sudden? Well he's got himself addicted to a damn MMO, and suddenly feels like he needs to prioritise a raid with a bunch of randos over his old friends. His friends that just pooled together and bought him a game for his birthday merely a few months ago. His friends that waited a whole month for him to get back from his holiday before he could even play the game. And now he thinks it's a wonderful idea to slap us in the face and book every single night with his raid team, and give us a measly one night a week playing the game that we were ALL hyped for, and ALL made some sort of sacrifice so that we could play together just like we used to. I can't believe he's building his entire week around a stupid MMO, and even worse is that he's treating it like a ****ing job. It's just a game. Granted Monster Hunter is just a game too, but we're here to have FUN as FRIENDS because we WAITED such a long time for this.
I'm seriously so angry at him and I'm trying my best not to be nasty with him. I really am. But **** me I can be a complete ***** when I get pissed off and I'm slowly reaching my breaking point with him. I feel betrayed and angry. He suddenly no longer values our time and instead we're having to work around his ****ty MMO schedule because that is apparently more important to him. What happens if during that ONE day he gives us of his precious MMO time that one of us can't make it? We just skip until next week? This is not what we had planned. Myself and the other two are getting increasingly tired of being shafted like this... We really wanted to play this game frequently. It was going to be our main focus for a while until we burned through all available content, then we could just wait until the next batch is released. He can't even take a break from his MMO to do that. He'd have plenty of time to play once we had caught up with the current content, but no... It's not good enough for him.
I'm so angry. I can't believe he's ditching us for a ****ing guild of randos. This is not something I'll get over easily... It really sucks when your friend quite clearly doesn't value your time and doesn't give a **** if they waste it.