So, the silly phone game I play has "teams"

[conuly]

And lemme tell you, my team picking was solely on the basis of "Are people in this team active" and "Do they have an open slot for me", because active team members send you more lives and you're more likely to win prizes in the team competitions, but most teams are 100% people who joined and never play.

But you can talk to each other, great, except that there's this one person who is very active and posts every single day about how they've changed the game so she can't win, she sucks, she is always stuck, she doesn't like it anymore, she's gonna quit - this all prompts a flood of "Oh, don't go, please stay" responses, and I can't help but wonder if that's the sole reason she posts like this.

One day I'm going to tell her that if she really feels that way she ought to quit, or at least shut up about it, because her posts bring my enjoyment of the game way down. Don't know what sort of response I'll get from everybody else who isn't her, but I can't be the only one who's itching to say it.

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Comments

[reynardo]

It's not "June's Journey", is it?

[conuly]

Nah, it's Fishdom. If you keep losing a level, your little fishies say things like "The impossible isn't real" and it's very kind of them.

[sgatazmy]

I feel this is exactly what happens with a person in a group I’m n. It gets me thinking to see that put into words.

[conuly]

It’s definitely certain that all changes made to the game are with the intent of making us spend more money, but either quit or don’t, y’know?

[movingfinger]

The randomly being assigned to a team in that game made me close and delete it. No, I don't want to be shoved into a room with strangers who have expectations that I'll participate in potlatch and weird competitions.

[redbird]

In your shoes I might tell her that the game seems to be stressing her out, and suggest she take a few days off and then decide whether to quit or to come back.

[conuly]

Ah. In this game you choose a team and don’t have to join at all.