| JWeinCom said: Maybe they don't, and that's fine. When you grow up and have careers and children and such, not everyone has a ton of time to have super close friends. Most Americans have between one and four "close friends" (maybe it's different in other countries). And, those friends aren't necessarily going to be into gaming, or the same games as you. It's a nice feature of physical gaming, but I don't consider whether someone might want to borrow my game or not when I'm buying them, and I don't expect others to consider whether or not I might want to borrow it when deciding on physical or digital. Plus, I find it awkward to ask to borrow things, and can afford the games I want, so I'd rather just buy them than asking around for a copy. |
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I have 2-3 friends I always hang out every now and then together but the game genres we play are radically different from each other.
I prefer single player experiences with games that actually have an ending.
One friend prefers games like Valorant
Another one prefers games like Destiny 2
The other one prefers fighting games on online like Street Fighter, Tekken, etc
We tried playing games a few times but never worked out because the games we tried out never really kept our interest (The Forest, Minecraft, Left 4 Dead 2, etc). I'm gonna try to see if I can get them to play Borderlands but I doubt it.
Dont have much time as I used to because we have a child now and I'm more focused on improving the QoL of my family.
Nowadays I hang out with my friends at least once a month at a restaurant or somewhere we all decide to go to.
I also dont like borrowing things from other people or lend people stuff - games are cheap nowadays , just takes some patience but you can immediately find decent deals for digital games and quicker deals for physical. I think in my entire I only borrowed like two games and that was like back in 2002 or 2003 in grade school - Chrono Cross for PS1 and Capcom VS SNK 2 on PS2 but like you mentioned, kinda awkward to ask to borrow stuff now especially with how available games are and how cheap they are compared to the 90s.
When sites like these exist, you will never find issues finding games on good sales/deals.
https://psprices.com/region-us/index
https://slickdeals.net/video-game-deals/
https://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/video-game-deals.2196/
