Your Life As A Gamer: Conventional Play After The Collapse, Part Five

"But I play because that's how I see my friends."

You don't have friends. You have Gaming Buddies. If those people only bear your presence when you're playing, then they are not your friends.

Friends don't need the excuse of an activity to make time for each other.

If this is your situation, you have far bigger problems than the collapse of Conventional Play. You have problems that I cannot help you with, nor am I inclined to help you with, but I will not be miserly in charity.

You are tolerated because you fill a seat, you are mostly are a useful cog to them, and likely you're also the one that runs the game and organizes everything but otherwise you never hear from them unless you reach out first- you are being USED.

That's not a sign that you need to adapt to a seismic shift in the hobby. That's a sign that if you weren't providing free entertainment for them, you would not even exist so far as they are concerned.

Run. Away. They are treating you like shit, and you're letting them. Stop. Go somewhere else. Do something else. Fix whatever it is that's wrong with you that put you in this position first, then come back to the hobby after you're made whole and functioning properly.

That's all I have to say about this. Get. Help. That's the end of this post.

And also this series.