Greetings fellows, I'm here to share with you a story. This story shapes the very way I view and use the social aspects of video games. This is but a single portion of the story, if you wish to view the rest, you may do so here. To make a long story short, this post is one of a series that details the way I was able to maintain a healthy social life after being removed from public school. This is the final post in the series, and as such may be confusing for people who haven't read the other ones. That being said, the post should still function on its own.

For Honor came out when I had my Battleborn play time had slowed, and my Evolve Stage 2 play time had completely stopped. This was a game that me, my brother, and my best friend were all extremely interested in playing. Its only real fault is that it came out more or less at the same time as Horizon: Zero Dawn (one of my favorite single player games). Regardless, my trio played the beta and we all got the game on release. This facilitated my first real conversations with my best friend that we had since his birthday in October. We stayed in regular contact as we played For Honor together. Unfortunately, launch For Honor had its gaping flaws realized months after its release, and the game became harder and harder to play. The state of the game with launch Centurion caused me and the gang to back away from the game for a while. We came back before the nerfs to Cent, and we played for quite a while after that.

But, as all things do, this came to an end. Although me and my brother still play For Honor to this day, my best friend began moving on with his life and stopped playing. And while my friendship with him is not over, I’d take a bullet for that man if it came down to it. We now only really speak to each other during our respective birthdays. I too have moved on to college, and the friendships that I once maintained by playing online games together, now only exist in the ghost town that is my Skype account.
As dramatic as that was, many of them would probably would respond positively to me contacting them again, I know that one of my old Minecraft friends reached out to me earlier this year and we had a brief catch up.

This is the final part of my story, if you wish to read the rest of it, you can do so here. The role of For Honor in this is to show the last of my friendships that were maintained over online video games. For the foreseeable future, I will not be playing online games enough to make and sustain fulfilling friendships.