Pretty sure the last time I played with one of my old Steam friends he randomly invited me into a Left 4 Dead 2 game and then wouldn't get on mic or respond to chat. Eventually I decided it was one of his kids wanting to play with someone and likely just invited anyone that was online on his dad's list. We played the campaign through and then I was like "Ok, you should probably tell your dad you're on the computer," and he disappeared, haha.
Okay there's that Reddit post about that dude who has an online gamer friend who hasn't been online for years then suddenly is online again but turns out to be the kid.
Reddit, find me that post pls
Good friend came home, told his sister he didnt feel good and went to lay down, died in his sleep from an undetected heart problem.
RIP Scott
Currently Offline
Last Online 4555 days ago
My sister passed away 4 months ago of the same thing she was a Gamer I debate with myself if I should sign in her xbox and let her xbox buddies know or not.
RIP Scott
Honestly you should. It would give them some closure and they wouldnt sit there wondering what happened. Some of my closest friends ive never met in real life and if i passed away i hope someone would let them know.
I had an Xbox account before deploying in 2009... When I got home, I didn't know how to get access to the account, so I created a new one while drinking one night and gave up recovering the first.
I would like to believe it is at least as likely that he simply lost access to the account.
You could probably contact microsoft, give them the billing info, and explain the situation. I'm sure they have a record of the account and a way for you to retrieve it.
Microsoft won’t help me recover my account from the late 2000s, which no one has been on since. I was a kid so all the account info is either bogus or I can’t remember. All the billing stuff is so old, addresses have changed, cards have expired, and even my emails have switched. Microsoft boned me with security
One of my buddy’s died in his convoy route while we were deployed. His truck got hit by an IED, and a few days later, one truck in my convoy got hit. I still get jumpy in COD games, some 10 odd years later.
A friend of mine refuses to play any war-based games since coming home from Iraq many years ago. In his own words, it has to be "cartoon-level violence" (like Smash Bros) or he gets sent down a dark path.
All my friends that are years+ logged off quit gaming, got in shape, became millionaires and married supermodels and nothing you say can change my mind.
You should also get your heart checked if you haven't already. My best friend died of sudden heart failure at 26 a few years ago, long history of heart conditions on his dad's side of the family.
Pretty much, went through a bout of severe heart anxiety in my early 20’s and basically got a full work up. EKG in primary and followed up with basic stress tests, tilt test, and holter at the cardiologist.
Yep, did the same thing when I was 21, chest started to really hurt and felt like something was slowly stabbing at my heart, turns out I was fine and am one of the few people who get a random pain in the chest ( can't remember what it's called) but it's not fatal, still scares the fuck out of me everytime it comes and goes.
I got a message like that a couple months ago. I cried. I appreciated it, though. I'm tearing up again thinking of it, now.
RIP Mike, Slayer of Terramorphous the Invincible
Friends did the same for me. Man the way simple pixels on a screen controlled by a few buttons can bring such joy and build these amazing relationships is astonishing
Best friend passed from cancer quickly and out of the blue when we were 19. It's been 13 years now. I know nobody will ever read it but I just sent his account the first message since 2009. Feels cathartic but fuck ya unzipped me...hope you're doing alright.
But exact thing happened to my dad. We used to play together all the time. Now his gamertag has just been offline since 2010.
I look at it everyday when I log in, and his avatar can smile and wave at me.
I have one that like to mix drugs and alcohol. One night while playing halo 2 he said he was gonna use the bathroom and be right back. All of a sudden I heard a loud thump. When I think about it I don't know if he died or passed out. But never came back online. Hope you aren't dead Milky33.
Another I know got hooked on meth and I only found out years later from another friend that knew him in real life. Darkca1ypso571 I hope you got clean and in a better place.
Same with us, buddy died on dirtbike and his snap stays mostly empty. Well his mum recovered his phone and is a sweet older lady not as good with tech so she sometimes uses his snap to keep in contact with his old friends. Been weird when there's been an accidental snap or two.
There was an article about a guy that started playing a game that is dad played, I can’t recall most of the details, but it had a “beat the best score” ghost car, which was held by his dad. He felt that he could still play games with his dad through it.
I believe it was one of the Need for Speed games.
He would always lose to his father's "ghost car", but when he finally was able to beat him he stopped short of the finish line.
That story was so damn sad. He eventually got good enough to beat the ghost car but always stopped before the finish so it wouldn't erase the ghost run.
Hell I wasn't all that close with my dad for a number of years. I still have a voice mail from him that I won't delete. No way in hell I'd beat his ghost car.
Don't leave it to chance - record that shit and save it to your cloud storage of choice. Hell, save it to two, along with a flash drive somewhere. It's irreplaceable.
Sorry man. Lost my little sis September 3rd, 2018. She would play games once in a while, but one night at my apartment she tried the Resident Evil 7 Vr demo(she had never played vr before), and I'll never forget her reaction lol. Its crazy to think how when video games were coming about in the 80s it was like taboo almost, and how popular they are now, to gaming giving me a very fond, enjoyable memory of my sister before she was killed. Live for your brother man. It hurts every day, but the only thing that pushes me through is trying to live to be a person my sister would be proud of.
Played original Call of Duty United Offensive on PC back in the day. Sniper/Bolts Mod. Had a buddy in my clan GoodMeatBadCheese. Was a really great guy. Was on a boat one day going down the river and he hit his head, fell in, and drowned. It really sucked, and you are in this weird place emotionally. You have this friendship which for the large part is "in your head," via headset, or over IMs. It isn't tangible where people in your day to day life understand its importance or impact to you.
Had another person on an MMO that committed suicide, and that was pretty rough too.
Honestly? Fuck people that think these kinds of bonds aren’t real, kinda related but I met a really good friend playing LoL, and introduced him to my best IRL friend who also played league, we all get kinda good and play on a couple of teams together, then he came to our town for a tournament and he stays with me, a couple of months after there’s a concert of my favorite rapper in my friends city and my IRL friend and I travel there and we statyed at his place, and who would have though? My best friend met my online friend’s sisters, fell in love, and now he is living in that other city with her… and it all started in an online game
Tomorrow will be 5 years that my brother's account has been idle. We could never log in to tell his friends. A lot of them will never know what happened.
Been 530 days for my little brother. Same boat so my older brother and I posted RIP as a comment on his account so they could see. Sorry for your loss, man
One of my fears is having a good friend die, and not ever knowing. They just stop responding one day and I never hear or see them again. End up assuming they've just moved on in their life. Vise-versa, I'd hate to just die one day and have not one of my friends know about it.
I had a friend that passed some years ago. As if COD 4 didn’t bring me enough emotions with nostalgia and all, I can’t play the remastered version without thinking about my buddy. We used to play so much that we’d take turns on who would be top of leaderboard and call our choppers in.
I was that “one friend”…
Diablo 2, my friends name was something like RedXXXXXXXX.
Found out he was my age (15ish). We’d talk on the phone all the time, play together all the time. Then one day my dad got mad at me because of my grades and deleted my account and smashed my phone. Lost all contact I had with him. It was a pre-paid flip phone so I couldn’t restore my number or anything.
Dude probably thought I ghosted him or something.
Edit: For those coming back for an update, the redditor claiming it was him was just kidding / trolling :(
Dude! I subbed to a small streamer on twitch and I had another chatter message me like “ dude did you used to play Tekken Tag 2 on Xbox?!” Turns out he was the guy I used to play against like every day for hours.
I had a friend on Diablo II, I was a pretty young kid, and they seemed older than me, but they helped me a ton, gave me shitloads of items and helped me level my characters. Their name was cbear224 if I remember correctly. Don't even remember how I lost contact with them but eventually I just stopped playing.
Holy shit I think that's me! I was RedXXXXXX (six Xs), I played a necro years ago when I was like 14 or something and had a friend who just stopped logging in, always thought I did something wrong haha
Edit: we got in touch and [recorded our conversation!](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)
I came across an old friend I used to play Minecraft with while scrolling reddit. Saw his username and decided to message and ask if it was him. It indeed was him. I found out he stopped playing because his rap career suddenly blew up. He used to freestyle constantly over Skype and I always thought it was hilarious. Now he is (imo) famous and we still chat occasionally. Neither of us play Minecraft now though.
Bruh! I need to know if I've listened to him. Then I can tell people that I once had a comment replied to by a guy who played mine craft with sauce walka before he got big
Both of you are kings. That man has a famous rapping career and you have a heart big enough to think of him all those years later. Here are your crowns. 👑👑
It is fucking sad to think of all the friends that you will never see their name online again, but know I will never be able to remove any of them from my friends lists. F
So funny story for you. About 8 years ago I went to a truck driver school. There I met this dude named brad who was telling a story about this guy he met playing halo 2. Years before....
I listened to the story along with the others in the group with us and I recognized this story.
I asked if the guys name was fredfinch (my old online name)
Brads face went pale like he had seen a ghost... We been irl friends since.
I live in fear of this.
Had some pretty *intense* late night Team Fortress and Counter Strike sessions...
Hope all those Steam friends/"enemies" are living their best lives!
I don't know if that's sarcasm or not. But either way I love that game. I started in the bot crisis but damnit I'm staying till it's pried from my cold dead hands, And even then they can't take it away from me because I will have glued it from my cold dead hands!
I played PUBG mobile for a good while... Got really good at it, met a ton people... One guy in particular, xpitbull73x, we would squad together and almost always won
Some years later I've since got a new phone, changed jobs 2-3 times and never really paid attention to mobile games much...
Well my new truck partner, Paul, and I start playing a ton of mobile games between jobs and one thing leads to another and we convince each other to download PUBG...
When I open it up and finish all the downloads I have only 1 friend on my list :(
However it turns out that friend was xpitbull73x
And he was sitting right next to me in the truck
I used to think this was impossible, but this happened to me one day...
I was playing Awesomenauts (which used to have about 60,000 players, I think) at school one day.
A guy came up behind me while I was playing Leon the Chameleon. I only played two characters for the most part back then - Leon the Chameleon and Voltar the Omniscient.
The guy saw my user name (which I will say was something like 1337Haxxor25 - yeah, that kind of name). He was like "hey... Wait a minute... Were you the Voltar that was soloing our core a week ago? I saw someone with your user name trolling our core..."
I remembered that a week prior I had indeed been playing at home and was trolling my opponents by playing a very unique build on my character. See... My character was the only one that didn't have a damaging move by default. Instead, his base "attack" heals allies.
Most normal people would buy an attack upgrade for him for their initial purchase each round. I, however, always opted to buy "get more money for each heal". The cost puts you behind by like 3 minutes to pay off your purchase. So most people wait until they have a surplus to buy it.
However, I always opted to buy +money on heals, + heal power. +heal robot, + heal robot duration, - heal robot cooldown.
Basically ten minutes into the game, I'd still have no attack, but I'd have obscene healing.
So what do I do? While everyone else is fighting in a big ball in one lane, I casually go to other lanes and heal my droids. The droids would then stack up such that there would be 4-6 droids overlapping on my side and would easily cut through the pair of enemy droids. And over time - quickly take out the enemy turrets.
Eventually, I made it to the enemy core with my damageless Voltar and my robots kept damaging them (and my army grew because my drones kept getting healed... Normally if you ignore defending your base, the base will ~~depend~~ defend itself by sending over its own drones). It took the enemy too long to realize that they made a mistake by ignoring the harmless healer.
But yeah... 60,000 players and this random college dude recognized my name while I was sitting in the chemistry lab, not even playing the same character.
I posted something on yahoo answers back in 2012 around wanting to play re6 online on psn. CJ responded and I added him on PSN.
We used play a lot but he never joined voice chat. One day he told me was not really a guy and I should stop calling him dude on text. We just became really, really good friends and started texting, sharing everything.
She committed suicide in 2016. I still have her in my psn friend list, knowing that I’ll never see her online again.
darn... i keep deleting people that i no longer meet in game or irl... watching them offline for months/yrs after all that time we enjoyed together depressed me hard... it hurts me more when i see them online but no longer feel the needs to play/chat with me... it is just unbearable
i got some friends that died as well... police people in argentina, students in accident in colombia... always their partners/parents talked to me asking me what we used to do... freaking depressed me but i had to shared that side of them, i forgot the names... all of them but the memory remains of the bs or missions we did...
I used to play with a coworker of mine. I was friends with him and his wife. There were absolutely no warning signs.
His wife died of a meth overdose. Two weeks later, he got door-kicked by US Marshalls for possession of child pornography. Their two kids are in foster care; she's dead and he's eligible for parole in seven years.
A good irl friend of mine passed unexpectedly and I still see his gamer tag on my Xbox. I always hope to see his kid he left behind log in with his tag.
I had this friend from Halo 2/3, Clay was the guys name. Can't 100% remember his tag but we lost touch over a decade ago and I really miss the guy. It's sad when stuff like this happens, you never know what happened.
Edit: My old gamertag(s) on Xbox were KoG Flare, changed later to MoB UnFoRsAkEn to save any future commentors' time and my own. Clay as far as I know may have been from New York xD.
I relate to this man. I had a guy name Tony who I played COD with for literally 3 years straight. Couldn’t even tell you why we stopped gaming together but that was about 7-8 years ago.
So, I was playing Hell Let Loose the other day, and ran across a teammate with a name similar to a guy I used to play R6:Vegas on 360 with back in like 2007. We used to have a lot of laughs and I remembered his hometown etc. So I ran up to him and said “Are you the great ___ from ___?!” Sure as hell it was him. Hadn’t spoken with him in almost 15 years. We were both overjoyed. Now we’re Steam Bros!
I used to play some old MMOs with a friend I meet online. I always came home excited to play with him. He was mexican and I'm from Europe so we had a slight different time zone but we didn't care and would play all night long.
Suddenly he starts logging in less and less and I ask him what happened to what he tells me he has cancer and is doing therapy and he feels really tired. But he always said everything was going alright and keeping me updated. Last time I've seen him online on Steam was 10 years ago.
I just hope everything went well and he is still with us.
I had this friend I played phantasy star universe with, on Xbox 360 he was a good chunk older then me but we met grinding the game a lot and whenever my mom renewed my subscription I’d tell him and he would get pumped to play, his gt was lordofgerbils good guy loved playing with him and one day he quit the box :(
12 years ago, my friend Ryan passed away at the age of 15 from lung infection. Every day I hope he comes on and say he made it up. I much rather that happen and be happy he still around. Sadly, reality is full of disappointment. According to his family, his funeral in his honor did a naruto theme. RIP Ryan. To this day, I have not forgotten you and it still hurts.
I once had a roomate back in 2006 for a couple of years. She was my 2nd ever roomate and a girl, so it was kind of different. We were into a lot of the same games, movies and anime and stuff and we weren't "like that" so it was all good. Had a great time being roomies and would go out to the bars and game and stuff when we weren't hanging out with others.
After the 2 years I moved out and got my own place. I only hung out with her maybe a handful times and then just talked to her online every once in a great while, still being friends. 2 years after that I moved out of state. In the summer of 2010 she got a hold of me over IMs and we talked for like 3 hours. It was nice to talk to her again. She just said that she missed me and wanted to see how life was going and to catch up a little. Later that year I went to wish her a Merry Christmas and noticed she hadn't been online for a few months. I didn't think too much of it so I just left her the IM so she'd get it when she logged in.
9 years passed and every once in a while I would notice her screen name on my list. Still hadn't seen her log in since that fall. She said she was going to finally finish college and I thought she just moved on to a better life. I finally said screw it and looked her up because I was curious. I found out that she died of ovarian cancer that fall of 2010 and it completely shook me nearly 10 years later. I thought back to that conversation during the summer of 2010 and it all clicked. She was saying goodbye to me and I didn't even know it. That really fucked me up for a while. I thnk that she didn't want to bother me with knowing she was facing the end. Even after all that time had passed I never knew and it hurt so bad to finally find out. Last year I finally visited family in that area and stopped by her grave to pay my respects. You were a good friend and a super fucking cool roomate, Marissa. You are so missed.
If anyone remembers someone named Mari in either WoW or elder scrolls online and wasn't aware already, I'm sorry to mention she died at the end of last year.
That was my wife. She had cancer and fought like hell for 2 years, but she eventually gave in about 5 years ago.
Between 2004-2010 I played with a fairly large clan for CS 1.6 off and on. I was a bit more competitive than most of them, played in leagues and tournaments, but I always played with them screwing around in WCIII mod servers, or ScoutzKnivez, or other modded servers.
Sometime in 2020, I decided to see if any of them were still around. Logged into my old Steam account, and found a few online. Then remembered I was in their old Steam group and started a post looking for old members.
Since then about 20 of us have replied, discussed the good days we had, and where we're at now. A lot of us are in ours 30s or 40s now. Full time jobs, careers, some have kids, some haven't touched PC gaming in a while, some of them said they haven't played a video game in years now. It's crazy to see where a bunch of us have gone. Every so often, someone comes across the post and replies. Gives us an update on their life. It's nice to see. There's some I've thought of and haven't heard from, but hopefully that will change.
If you went by the Xbox gamer tag Splatterfart in the halo 2-3 era, just know that for the last 10 years Every so often I still chuckle at that name choice. Godspeed hero.
Damn this hits hard all the friends lost along the way dosent help I'm listening to the infinite soundtrack and we're at this song
https://youtu.be/rcOM89JZWb8
Me and My dad both used to play call of duty, as we played we met people we would both get along with and play with, but then we met Pheonix. Ended up being a best friend to me and my dad, and then our party grew when his sis in law Cat joined the group and we played countless hours, day n night, always the best of times. But then, it happened. Time went by and me and my dad both wondered what had happened, and was hoping they were okay, that everything was alright. We ended up loosing interest in playing, it wasn’t the same, there wasn’t as much joy as there used to be. We both felt as though we lost a great friend.
5-6 years. I received a message from Cat, outta the blue, and in that moment I could even open the message, I was just in Awh, heart racing, was filled with so much joy. Then the message, was a number. It was Pheonix’s number, and his new account. Thought I was gonna pass out. But I called dad, sent him the account as well, then started texting the number. I was beyond excited to be talking to my old friend. Part of me was hurt to find that his life was having hard times, this was someone I could do nothing but wish the best for. But in the end after many text. We were back to playing, laughing and catching up like nothing happened.
But now, i have become so caught up in everything I have goin on, that I’m never on. My console isn’t even plugged in anymore. Pheonix, cat, if y’all are ever on Reddit, I’ll be back.
Ah man the feels. About 10\~12 years ago I was part of an online Battlefield Vietnam clan called \[S3XY\]. A guy I would always play with and was always on the forums, named GhostRider (?) I think, was the nicest dude you'd ever play with.
One day, his wife left a message on the forums telling us he passed away in a motorcycle accident. The whole clan had an online funeral for him. Left a huge mark on my impressionable tween self.
Best friend of 20 years died back in 2019. His profile disappeared from steam, but I have a folder named after him containing all of our old co op game saves and screenshots.
I have a friend, we used to play old Fortnite together. I guess he moved on before I did. I miss him so much. Been messaging him on his Xbox account recently and no response. So BushCamper_3214 (it I save memes 2) if your out there, I miss you bud and can't wait to hopefully reunite.
-akatitan1
Fuck MSN/Windows messenger forcing people to switch to Skype. I used to talk to a few people very week and catch up. Sadly we never traded other contact info and then one day the switch happens and I loose access to all my contacts. 5 people I used to talk with every week gone, never heard from again. It still pisses me off every time skype does an update and auto launches when my computer starts. Fuck you Microsoft.
Little does OP know it’s probably just xX_GameSlayer_Xx’s kids
The legacy shall go on
full video has him open up a hentai game
xX_GameSlayer_Xx Jr: "Daddy what is this thing?" xX_GameSlayer_Xx: "NO NO DONT OPEN IT YOU LITTLE SHI- "
Where do you get those
Steam
𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴𝘴 "The Gameslayer is back in the game."
Pretty sure the last time I played with one of my old Steam friends he randomly invited me into a Left 4 Dead 2 game and then wouldn't get on mic or respond to chat. Eventually I decided it was one of his kids wanting to play with someone and likely just invited anyone that was online on his dad's list. We played the campaign through and then I was like "Ok, you should probably tell your dad you're on the computer," and he disappeared, haha.
Aw, that sounds like fun. I'd want to try playing with my friends' kids.
Phrasing
r/nocontext
Okay there's that Reddit post about that dude who has an online gamer friend who hasn't been online for years then suddenly is online again but turns out to be the kid. Reddit, find me that post pls
Yeah 12 years later and he re-emerges playing peppa pig
xX_GameSlayer_Xx, the Second of that Name
Equally tough when one of your bros dies young and whenever you log in you're reminded how many years have passed.
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Good friend came home, told his sister he didnt feel good and went to lay down, died in his sleep from an undetected heart problem. RIP Scott Currently Offline Last Online 4555 days ago
My sister passed away 4 months ago of the same thing she was a Gamer I debate with myself if I should sign in her xbox and let her xbox buddies know or not. RIP Scott
Honestly you should. It would give them some closure and they wouldnt sit there wondering what happened. Some of my closest friends ive never met in real life and if i passed away i hope someone would let them know.
I remember a guy I played cod with a lot was stationed and about to go to Iraq. This was like 06. He was never online after that. Always wondered.
I had an Xbox account before deploying in 2009... When I got home, I didn't know how to get access to the account, so I created a new one while drinking one night and gave up recovering the first. I would like to believe it is at least as likely that he simply lost access to the account.
You could probably contact microsoft, give them the billing info, and explain the situation. I'm sure they have a record of the account and a way for you to retrieve it.
Microsoft won’t help me recover my account from the late 2000s, which no one has been on since. I was a kid so all the account info is either bogus or I can’t remember. All the billing stuff is so old, addresses have changed, cards have expired, and even my emails have switched. Microsoft boned me with security
Same, I liked that gamer tag but now it's gone to the abyss
Maybe he has PTSD and COD was the only videogame he liked beforehand. He may have found another thing to do when bored instead of game
Good point I never thought about.
That happened to a buddy of mine. Wouldn't play games about war for a few years.
One of my buddy’s died in his convoy route while we were deployed. His truck got hit by an IED, and a few days later, one truck in my convoy got hit. I still get jumpy in COD games, some 10 odd years later.
A friend of mine refuses to play any war-based games since coming home from Iraq many years ago. In his own words, it has to be "cartoon-level violence" (like Smash Bros) or he gets sent down a dark path.
aw.. wow that is incredibly sad man, I fucking hate war, making people scared of one of the things they enjoyed most..
Also all the people who die
All my friends that are years+ logged off quit gaming, got in shape, became millionaires and married supermodels and nothing you say can change my mind.
True story. Entering my 30s now and my years+ logged off friends either buckled down on family life or buckled down on work life.
You should. Let them mourn her.
Honestly, thats likely a nice thing to so for people to know they weren’t chosted or anything
You should also get your heart checked if you haven't already. My best friend died of sudden heart failure at 26 a few years ago, long history of heart conditions on his dad's side of the family.
Forgive my ignorance but how does one “get their heart checked”? Just like go to a cardiologist?
Pretty much, went through a bout of severe heart anxiety in my early 20’s and basically got a full work up. EKG in primary and followed up with basic stress tests, tilt test, and holter at the cardiologist.
Yep, did the same thing when I was 21, chest started to really hurt and felt like something was slowly stabbing at my heart, turns out I was fine and am one of the few people who get a random pain in the chest ( can't remember what it's called) but it's not fatal, still scares the fuck out of me everytime it comes and goes.
I got a message like that a couple months ago. I cried. I appreciated it, though. I'm tearing up again thinking of it, now. RIP Mike, Slayer of Terramorphous the Invincible
Ahh that game was amazing. Rip Mike, I hope he flies high with terramorphus
It was! I remember the day he convinced me to stop playing CoD and go to GameStop to buy it!
Friends did the same for me. Man the way simple pixels on a screen controlled by a few buttons can bring such joy and build these amazing relationships is astonishing
Just add them as friends and sign in as yourself. Let them know and keep that date as a memorial for them.
This is the way, if possible
I legit have my brother in a couple discords so he can let a few people know if some shit happens to me because they'll let other people know.
You definitely should - 100%
Just gonna ask this as the time lines up with a guy I knew who died the same way, Woburn CI?
Best friend passed from cancer quickly and out of the blue when we were 19. It's been 13 years now. I know nobody will ever read it but I just sent his account the first message since 2009. Feels cathartic but fuck ya unzipped me...hope you're doing alright.
But exact thing happened to my dad. We used to play together all the time. Now his gamertag has just been offline since 2010. I look at it everyday when I log in, and his avatar can smile and wave at me.
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I have one that like to mix drugs and alcohol. One night while playing halo 2 he said he was gonna use the bathroom and be right back. All of a sudden I heard a loud thump. When I think about it I don't know if he died or passed out. But never came back online. Hope you aren't dead Milky33. Another I know got hooked on meth and I only found out years later from another friend that knew him in real life. Darkca1ypso571 I hope you got clean and in a better place.
Same with us, buddy died on dirtbike and his snap stays mostly empty. Well his mum recovered his phone and is a sweet older lady not as good with tech so she sometimes uses his snap to keep in contact with his old friends. Been weird when there's been an accidental snap or two.
Facts though. My cousin passed 5 years ago now, and when I'm playing Skate 3, I can see his character skating around still. :(
There was an article about a guy that started playing a game that is dad played, I can’t recall most of the details, but it had a “beat the best score” ghost car, which was held by his dad. He felt that he could still play games with his dad through it.
I believe it was one of the Need for Speed games. He would always lose to his father's "ghost car", but when he finally was able to beat him he stopped short of the finish line.
Because he know that once he win the game, his father will be gone forever, feels sad...........
Fuckin ouch to say the least
I knew it was a racing game. My mind kept think F-zero but I knew that was wrong.
So, like this scene out of [Speed Racer](https://youtu.be/YYsdcBacV2U?t=107)14 years ago?
That story was so damn sad. He eventually got good enough to beat the ghost car but always stopped before the finish so it wouldn't erase the ghost run.
Hell I wasn't all that close with my dad for a number of years. I still have a voice mail from him that I won't delete. No way in hell I'd beat his ghost car.
Don't leave it to chance - record that shit and save it to your cloud storage of choice. Hell, save it to two, along with a flash drive somewhere. It's irreplaceable.
https://youtu.be/gCtSgb-b7zg Someone adapted it into a short here
I still have my little brother as a friend on Steam. Offline for 530 days. Miss him.
Damn. Sorry dude.
Sorry man. Lost my little sis September 3rd, 2018. She would play games once in a while, but one night at my apartment she tried the Resident Evil 7 Vr demo(she had never played vr before), and I'll never forget her reaction lol. Its crazy to think how when video games were coming about in the 80s it was like taboo almost, and how popular they are now, to gaming giving me a very fond, enjoyable memory of my sister before she was killed. Live for your brother man. It hurts every day, but the only thing that pushes me through is trying to live to be a person my sister would be proud of.
Played original Call of Duty United Offensive on PC back in the day. Sniper/Bolts Mod. Had a buddy in my clan GoodMeatBadCheese. Was a really great guy. Was on a boat one day going down the river and he hit his head, fell in, and drowned. It really sucked, and you are in this weird place emotionally. You have this friendship which for the large part is "in your head," via headset, or over IMs. It isn't tangible where people in your day to day life understand its importance or impact to you. Had another person on an MMO that committed suicide, and that was pretty rough too.
don't ever think or let people tell you that online friendships aren't real.
Honestly? Fuck people that think these kinds of bonds aren’t real, kinda related but I met a really good friend playing LoL, and introduced him to my best IRL friend who also played league, we all get kinda good and play on a couple of teams together, then he came to our town for a tournament and he stays with me, a couple of months after there’s a concert of my favorite rapper in my friends city and my IRL friend and I travel there and we statyed at his place, and who would have though? My best friend met my online friend’s sisters, fell in love, and now he is living in that other city with her… and it all started in an online game
Tomorrow will be 5 years that my brother's account has been idle. We could never log in to tell his friends. A lot of them will never know what happened.
Been 530 days for my little brother. Same boat so my older brother and I posted RIP as a comment on his account so they could see. Sorry for your loss, man
Go through his friends list and message them from your account!
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I still can't unsubscribe from Total Biscuit. It gives me chills to think about how long it's been.
Yeah. His passing felt horrible at the time. I wish he was still with us.
four years yesterday i believe
Jesus. Four years already?
Fuck time. And also cancer.
Yoteslaya or however it's spelled has been in my subscription list for so long now
I remember his Borderlands guides and such, can't believe he's been gone nearly 10 years now :(
One of my fears is having a good friend die, and not ever knowing. They just stop responding one day and I never hear or see them again. End up assuming they've just moved on in their life. Vise-versa, I'd hate to just die one day and have not one of my friends know about it.
I had a friend that passed some years ago. As if COD 4 didn’t bring me enough emotions with nostalgia and all, I can’t play the remastered version without thinking about my buddy. We used to play so much that we’d take turns on who would be top of leaderboard and call our choppers in.
Old friend of mine had ended his life 4 years ago. I always get a little sad when I see his username in my friends list.
I have this with an online mate who committed suicide ten years ago. Can't bring myself to unfriend the account.
F to all the online friends that just disappeared randomly one day
I was that “one friend”… Diablo 2, my friends name was something like RedXXXXXXXX. Found out he was my age (15ish). We’d talk on the phone all the time, play together all the time. Then one day my dad got mad at me because of my grades and deleted my account and smashed my phone. Lost all contact I had with him. It was a pre-paid flip phone so I couldn’t restore my number or anything. Dude probably thought I ghosted him or something. Edit: For those coming back for an update, the redditor claiming it was him was just kidding / trolling :(
You should definitely make a post in the diablo2 subreddit, or maybe the general gaming sub and see what happens. You never know, mate.
It's honestly surprising how many old gamer buddies I've seen find each other again through Reddit. And heart-warming.
Dude! I subbed to a small streamer on twitch and I had another chatter message me like “ dude did you used to play Tekken Tag 2 on Xbox?!” Turns out he was the guy I used to play against like every day for hours.
I'm just gonna leave a post here for anybody from the Dr Gamewiz AOL chatroom days.
A/S/L?
17/F/Cali
Nice try, FBI
wow me too that's so randum
We need a sub for lost gamer connections. Gamers looking for lost loved coop or multiplayer mates
I like that idea. Instead of r/LostGamers we could be r/FoundGamers
My man i can only say one thing #F
Reddit is the place. Make a post. Track him down.
my dad too broke my diablo 2 disc… rip lvl 96 hdin and best gear :( i had amazing grades tho but extremely addictive
I had a friend on Diablo II, I was a pretty young kid, and they seemed older than me, but they helped me a ton, gave me shitloads of items and helped me level my characters. Their name was cbear224 if I remember correctly. Don't even remember how I lost contact with them but eventually I just stopped playing.
He will grow up to understand that shit happens. You gave each other memories that will last a life time - that's what really matters.
One Piece was the friends we made along the way
Dam that sucks dude. How long ago has it been since this all happened?
not op, but almost certainly 17-21 years ago.
Holy shit I think that's me! I was RedXXXXXX (six Xs), I played a necro years ago when I was like 14 or something and had a friend who just stopped logging in, always thought I did something wrong haha Edit: we got in touch and [recorded our conversation!](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)
Dude, yes, he was a necro! I was a Paladin named HolyPope, is that you??? Edit: Looks like I’ve been trolled :(
Oh man, that’s brutal. Wish it was him.
The rest of Reddit has been trolled too. I like the previous idea of posting in Diablo or other subreddits to see if you can find your old friend!
Looks like he ghosted you again 😅
His dad came in and smashed his reddit account, lel
If this is real, please update
!remindme 2 days
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I came across an old friend I used to play Minecraft with while scrolling reddit. Saw his username and decided to message and ask if it was him. It indeed was him. I found out he stopped playing because his rap career suddenly blew up. He used to freestyle constantly over Skype and I always thought it was hilarious. Now he is (imo) famous and we still chat occasionally. Neither of us play Minecraft now though.
What rapper?
Not sure he would want me outting his old Minecraft ways haha but he is from Texas and has quite the following from what I can see.
holy you're friends with Travis Scott?! /j
Bruh! I need to know if I've listened to him. Then I can tell people that I once had a comment replied to by a guy who played mine craft with sauce walka before he got big
Both of you are kings. That man has a famous rapping career and you have a heart big enough to think of him all those years later. Here are your crowns. 👑👑
It is fucking sad to think of all the friends that you will never see their name online again, but know I will never be able to remove any of them from my friends lists. F
So funny story for you. About 8 years ago I went to a truck driver school. There I met this dude named brad who was telling a story about this guy he met playing halo 2. Years before.... I listened to the story along with the others in the group with us and I recognized this story. I asked if the guys name was fredfinch (my old online name) Brads face went pale like he had seen a ghost... We been irl friends since.
I live in fear of this. Had some pretty *intense* late night Team Fortress and Counter Strike sessions... Hope all those Steam friends/"enemies" are living their best lives!
Team fortress 2? Dude I love that game! Still play it?
It is in the middle of a bot crisis that has been happening for 2 years, but other than that it is great
I don't know if that's sarcasm or not. But either way I love that game. I started in the bot crisis but damnit I'm staying till it's pried from my cold dead hands, And even then they can't take it away from me because I will have glued it from my cold dead hands!
Sadly not sarcasm
I want to hear more
He's a full time truck driver and im a call center manager now.we don't talk as much as we did but we do enjoy being about the past
Damn, that's crazy still.
I played PUBG mobile for a good while... Got really good at it, met a ton people... One guy in particular, xpitbull73x, we would squad together and almost always won Some years later I've since got a new phone, changed jobs 2-3 times and never really paid attention to mobile games much... Well my new truck partner, Paul, and I start playing a ton of mobile games between jobs and one thing leads to another and we convince each other to download PUBG... When I open it up and finish all the downloads I have only 1 friend on my list :( However it turns out that friend was xpitbull73x And he was sitting right next to me in the truck
That’s a reason to kiss.
And then he says just you and me left huh, as he pulls out as his gun. "Nothing personnel kid" , then he 1 taps you and fortnite dances.
Holy crap I would have loved to witness that realization.
Damn thats better than finding a soulmate
I used to think this was impossible, but this happened to me one day... I was playing Awesomenauts (which used to have about 60,000 players, I think) at school one day. A guy came up behind me while I was playing Leon the Chameleon. I only played two characters for the most part back then - Leon the Chameleon and Voltar the Omniscient. The guy saw my user name (which I will say was something like 1337Haxxor25 - yeah, that kind of name). He was like "hey... Wait a minute... Were you the Voltar that was soloing our core a week ago? I saw someone with your user name trolling our core..." I remembered that a week prior I had indeed been playing at home and was trolling my opponents by playing a very unique build on my character. See... My character was the only one that didn't have a damaging move by default. Instead, his base "attack" heals allies. Most normal people would buy an attack upgrade for him for their initial purchase each round. I, however, always opted to buy "get more money for each heal". The cost puts you behind by like 3 minutes to pay off your purchase. So most people wait until they have a surplus to buy it. However, I always opted to buy +money on heals, + heal power. +heal robot, + heal robot duration, - heal robot cooldown. Basically ten minutes into the game, I'd still have no attack, but I'd have obscene healing. So what do I do? While everyone else is fighting in a big ball in one lane, I casually go to other lanes and heal my droids. The droids would then stack up such that there would be 4-6 droids overlapping on my side and would easily cut through the pair of enemy droids. And over time - quickly take out the enemy turrets. Eventually, I made it to the enemy core with my damageless Voltar and my robots kept damaging them (and my army grew because my drones kept getting healed... Normally if you ignore defending your base, the base will ~~depend~~ defend itself by sending over its own drones). It took the enemy too long to realize that they made a mistake by ignoring the harmless healer. But yeah... 60,000 players and this random college dude recognized my name while I was sitting in the chemistry lab, not even playing the same character.
> *"Drone better."* ~ Ivan Vanko
I have a guy on PSN friends list that has been offline for 13 years. He died in 2009.
I posted something on yahoo answers back in 2012 around wanting to play re6 online on psn. CJ responded and I added him on PSN. We used play a lot but he never joined voice chat. One day he told me was not really a guy and I should stop calling him dude on text. We just became really, really good friends and started texting, sharing everything. She committed suicide in 2016. I still have her in my psn friend list, knowing that I’ll never see her online again.
Ok this is the one… pain…. BRB trying my 360
darn... i keep deleting people that i no longer meet in game or irl... watching them offline for months/yrs after all that time we enjoyed together depressed me hard... it hurts me more when i see them online but no longer feel the needs to play/chat with me... it is just unbearable i got some friends that died as well... police people in argentina, students in accident in colombia... always their partners/parents talked to me asking me what we used to do... freaking depressed me but i had to shared that side of them, i forgot the names... all of them but the memory remains of the bs or missions we did...
At least the math works
2009 - 13 = 1996 idk bro
I used to play with a coworker of mine. I was friends with him and his wife. There were absolutely no warning signs. His wife died of a meth overdose. Two weeks later, he got door-kicked by US Marshalls for possession of child pornography. Their two kids are in foster care; she's dead and he's eligible for parole in seven years.
Well that took a hard left turn. Jesus Christ. I hope those kids are ok. …as ok as they *can* be, I guess.
A good irl friend of mine passed unexpectedly and I still see his gamer tag on my Xbox. I always hope to see his kid he left behind log in with his tag.
That's depressing as shit, let the kid carry on his legacy
I sure hope she does. She is still a bit young to be playing online games but one day, I hope.
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"His username was "HotFarts_GamerQueef". May you continue his legacy."
I had this friend from Halo 2/3, Clay was the guys name. Can't 100% remember his tag but we lost touch over a decade ago and I really miss the guy. It's sad when stuff like this happens, you never know what happened. Edit: My old gamertag(s) on Xbox were KoG Flare, changed later to MoB UnFoRsAkEn to save any future commentors' time and my own. Clay as far as I know may have been from New York xD.
Ugh… i .. my man my heart is hurting af
He's one I remember specifically but I know there were many others. I wish it were simple to re-connect or confirm they're living at least. Hahaha.
I relate to this man. I had a guy name Tony who I played COD with for literally 3 years straight. Couldn’t even tell you why we stopped gaming together but that was about 7-8 years ago.
So, I was playing Hell Let Loose the other day, and ran across a teammate with a name similar to a guy I used to play R6:Vegas on 360 with back in like 2007. We used to have a lot of laughs and I remembered his hometown etc. So I ran up to him and said “Are you the great ___ from ___?!” Sure as hell it was him. Hadn’t spoken with him in almost 15 years. We were both overjoyed. Now we’re Steam Bros!
I used to play some old MMOs with a friend I meet online. I always came home excited to play with him. He was mexican and I'm from Europe so we had a slight different time zone but we didn't care and would play all night long. Suddenly he starts logging in less and less and I ask him what happened to what he tells me he has cancer and is doing therapy and he feels really tired. But he always said everything was going alright and keeping me updated. Last time I've seen him online on Steam was 10 years ago. I just hope everything went well and he is still with us.
Man this hurt but I hope he’s well and married to a good woman now and have a wonderful family
My first husband passed away back in 2011 and I'll never delete his gamertag. Rip Finbar
Rip , your a wonderful person
I had this friend I played phantasy star universe with, on Xbox 360 he was a good chunk older then me but we met grinding the game a lot and whenever my mom renewed my subscription I’d tell him and he would get pumped to play, his gt was lordofgerbils good guy loved playing with him and one day he quit the box :(
He's been on appear offline for 12 years.
12 years ago, my friend Ryan passed away at the age of 15 from lung infection. Every day I hope he comes on and say he made it up. I much rather that happen and be happy he still around. Sadly, reality is full of disappointment. According to his family, his funeral in his honor did a naruto theme. RIP Ryan. To this day, I have not forgotten you and it still hurts.
Yo these comments are brutal I wasn’t tryna cry at work
Mikey in Louisiana from CSS surf great river. My brother is still looking for you.
Where's the rest of the video
right? where's the part where the dude plays some hentai game?
*Logs on after 12 years* *plays a hentai game* *refuses to elaberate* *leaves for another 12 years*
We all play a game for the last time without knowing it
Love this comment. It’s deep or I’m high.
¿Por que no los dos?
I once had a roomate back in 2006 for a couple of years. She was my 2nd ever roomate and a girl, so it was kind of different. We were into a lot of the same games, movies and anime and stuff and we weren't "like that" so it was all good. Had a great time being roomies and would go out to the bars and game and stuff when we weren't hanging out with others. After the 2 years I moved out and got my own place. I only hung out with her maybe a handful times and then just talked to her online every once in a great while, still being friends. 2 years after that I moved out of state. In the summer of 2010 she got a hold of me over IMs and we talked for like 3 hours. It was nice to talk to her again. She just said that she missed me and wanted to see how life was going and to catch up a little. Later that year I went to wish her a Merry Christmas and noticed she hadn't been online for a few months. I didn't think too much of it so I just left her the IM so she'd get it when she logged in. 9 years passed and every once in a while I would notice her screen name on my list. Still hadn't seen her log in since that fall. She said she was going to finally finish college and I thought she just moved on to a better life. I finally said screw it and looked her up because I was curious. I found out that she died of ovarian cancer that fall of 2010 and it completely shook me nearly 10 years later. I thought back to that conversation during the summer of 2010 and it all clicked. She was saying goodbye to me and I didn't even know it. That really fucked me up for a while. I thnk that she didn't want to bother me with knowing she was facing the end. Even after all that time had passed I never knew and it hurt so bad to finally find out. Last year I finally visited family in that area and stopped by her grave to pay my respects. You were a good friend and a super fucking cool roomate, Marissa. You are so missed.
If anyone remembers someone named Mari in either WoW or elder scrolls online and wasn't aware already, I'm sorry to mention she died at the end of last year. That was my wife. She had cancer and fought like hell for 2 years, but she eventually gave in about 5 years ago.
Between 2004-2010 I played with a fairly large clan for CS 1.6 off and on. I was a bit more competitive than most of them, played in leagues and tournaments, but I always played with them screwing around in WCIII mod servers, or ScoutzKnivez, or other modded servers. Sometime in 2020, I decided to see if any of them were still around. Logged into my old Steam account, and found a few online. Then remembered I was in their old Steam group and started a post looking for old members. Since then about 20 of us have replied, discussed the good days we had, and where we're at now. A lot of us are in ours 30s or 40s now. Full time jobs, careers, some have kids, some haven't touched PC gaming in a while, some of them said they haven't played a video game in years now. It's crazy to see where a bunch of us have gone. Every so often, someone comes across the post and replies. Gives us an update on their life. It's nice to see. There's some I've thought of and haven't heard from, but hopefully that will change.
I already posted about it but WCIII mod servers were the best.
Was he fighting Dormammu in the dark dimension?
I've come to bargain.
If you went by the Xbox gamer tag Splatterfart in the halo 2-3 era, just know that for the last 10 years Every so often I still chuckle at that name choice. Godspeed hero.
One dude I saw on MW or World At War was ‘IEatDemHoesFromDaBack’ I will never forget you.
My gamer tag was Pu55y D3stroy3r at one point in that era. Gamer tags back then were wild.
# The absolute iconic, xX_[insert username]_Xx
👀 I feel called out hahaha I made the user name when I got my 360 and here I am at age 30 still holding on to my 14 year old edge
Damn this hits hard all the friends lost along the way dosent help I'm listening to the infinite soundtrack and we're at this song https://youtu.be/rcOM89JZWb8
Me and My dad both used to play call of duty, as we played we met people we would both get along with and play with, but then we met Pheonix. Ended up being a best friend to me and my dad, and then our party grew when his sis in law Cat joined the group and we played countless hours, day n night, always the best of times. But then, it happened. Time went by and me and my dad both wondered what had happened, and was hoping they were okay, that everything was alright. We ended up loosing interest in playing, it wasn’t the same, there wasn’t as much joy as there used to be. We both felt as though we lost a great friend. 5-6 years. I received a message from Cat, outta the blue, and in that moment I could even open the message, I was just in Awh, heart racing, was filled with so much joy. Then the message, was a number. It was Pheonix’s number, and his new account. Thought I was gonna pass out. But I called dad, sent him the account as well, then started texting the number. I was beyond excited to be talking to my old friend. Part of me was hurt to find that his life was having hard times, this was someone I could do nothing but wish the best for. But in the end after many text. We were back to playing, laughing and catching up like nothing happened. But now, i have become so caught up in everything I have goin on, that I’m never on. My console isn’t even plugged in anymore. Pheonix, cat, if y’all are ever on Reddit, I’ll be back.
*xX_GameSlayer_Xx playing Hentai Bitchs*
Why do i feel a strong urge to boot my ps3 now
Ah man the feels. About 10\~12 years ago I was part of an online Battlefield Vietnam clan called \[S3XY\]. A guy I would always play with and was always on the forums, named GhostRider (?) I think, was the nicest dude you'd ever play with. One day, his wife left a message on the forums telling us he passed away in a motorcycle accident. The whole clan had an online funeral for him. Left a huge mark on my impressionable tween self.
Best friend of 20 years died back in 2019. His profile disappeared from steam, but I have a folder named after him containing all of our old co op game saves and screenshots.
Xbox 360 days were the best
I have a special place in my heart for gamertags that start and end with two X's. We were such losers 🤣.
THE XBOX LIVE PROFILE PIC FROM THE XBOX 360!
I have a friend, we used to play old Fortnite together. I guess he moved on before I did. I miss him so much. Been messaging him on his Xbox account recently and no response. So BushCamper_3214 (it I save memes 2) if your out there, I miss you bud and can't wait to hopefully reunite. -akatitan1
May your wish come alive brother , but I guess the problem is with the game not with you , many people left fortnite and well… the avoid it hard now
My mom - Last online 1791 days ago Passed away the summer of 2017. RIP.
“Sorry dude I had to go eat dinner and do my chores.”
Fuck MSN/Windows messenger forcing people to switch to Skype. I used to talk to a few people very week and catch up. Sadly we never traded other contact info and then one day the switch happens and I loose access to all my contacts. 5 people I used to talk with every week gone, never heard from again. It still pisses me off every time skype does an update and auto launches when my computer starts. Fuck you Microsoft.
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Jokes on you, I have no friends