ABIGAIL JACOBSON
News Editor
Provided by lakewoodsnn.com.
Warning: This article contains strong language.
A lot of things piss me off.
Wet socks, men, video games, politics, men and just a lot of stupid shit. Is one of them video games? Yeah, they piss me off.
If I had to call out any video game, I don’t think I could pick one– “Overwatch 2.” I could pick one and it’s “Overwatch 2.”
End of discussion. I know everyone would agree with me. I hate “Overwatch 2” with a passion, alongside some other games as well. I know a lot of friends and people online who claim they hate this one game but then I see them on Discord playing it. Guys, make it make sense.
I mean, I also claim I hate “Overwatch 2” but once my friend texts me asking to play some “Overwatch 2,” I’m already waiting for them to invite me.
I think why people say they hate some games but still play them isn’t because the games suck. I think that, at the moment, they hate it because someone is destroying them or the game does some stupid shit that should not have happened at all.
For example, how the fuck can Mercy from “Overwatch 2” rez their fucking tank after they died 10 seconds ago? Or maybe when you lose the battle when trying to catch a fucking fish in “Stardew Valley.” Yeah, that’s when I HATE THE GAME!!!
Another idea as to why people play games they hate is because they’ve spent money on them.
I spent money on “Overwatch 2” when it was originally called “Overwatch” and it was $60. Then they made “Overwatch 2,” which is free, but all of my cosmetics and things I’ve bought over the years transferred over and I feel as though I HAVE to play the game.
We see this as a sunk cost fallacy, which is where someone has invested money/effort/time into something (for us, video games) and they’ve already invested so much of that time/effort/money that they have to keep playing it. In other words, throwing away money for the sake of spending it in the first place.
I spent money on “Overwatch” and“Overwatch 2,” so if I stop playing it, it feels as though I wasted money. While I’m already broke and feel like I waste money anyways, continuing to play the game I “hate,” makes me feel like I didn’t waste it at all.
I mean I didn’t spend 2 hours playing “Dead Island” to just stop playing it! I already got so far in the game and put in a lot of time and effort, why would I stop playing it because I hate the game? I will at least finish it.
Sometimes if we are serious and we actually don’t like the game, it could be because we WANT to like the game.
If you hear so many great things about the game and go to play it and realize it’s not what you expected, you might push through it to at least give it a chance.
On a Reddit post by u/BlackWidowerr titled “Why do people force themselves to play games they hate?” one user responded with their opinion. u/BlueDraconis said, “Sometimes I push through games I’m not having fun with, in case I’ll like them eventually. From my experience, it’s worth it half of the time, so it’s like a gamble.
“Sometimes it’s like what another comment said: ‘the game is popular and I want to know why.’ Though I found that most of the [time] it’s not worth it, and [I] don’t really force myself to play games like these anymore.”
Another user, u/drewtheredguard, said that they play games they hate “to get that sweet satisfaction of feeling good,” which I completely agree with.
Sometimes we play games we “hate” because we actually did love them at one point.
Before “Overwatch 2,” there was “Overwatch.” It was my favorite game and I became obsessed with it. Then they released “Overwatch 2” as a replacement and I started to dislike it because of the community. Sometimes I just want to play the game I used to enjoy before it started being filled with a toxic community. This sucks because it ruins the game for me.
However, it doesn’t ruin it to the point where I won’t play it.
This is why people play video games they “hate.” We don’t actually hate the game but it does get us riled up. Especially if we’ve put in money, time and effort or are being told “you suck” 500 times when you have the most healing in the damn game (#supportlife).
Yes, I play video games I claim I “hate.” However, that doesn’t stop me from wanting to keep playing them. Especially when my duo’s waiting for me to join.