My friend prefers to play with random 40 year olds...

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Me and my two friends bought ESO. We were supposed to level up together and have fun doing dungeons and quests together and stuff.

One of the guys however decided to join a 500 players guild and follow his "new friends", the 40 year olds, in V16 (lvl 66) dungeons and got to level 28 in less than two days. He's got purple font gear (The best quality) and he can kill lvl 40 mobs.

Meanwhile, me and my other friend leveled up in a legit way and it took us 3 weeks to get to level 16...

I paid 60$ for the game and 50$ for a PSN subscription...

I told the f****r I didn't want to play with his "new friends" and he's mad at me and he thinks I'm racist just because his friends are French meanwhile the real reason I don't like them is because they're F*****G RUINING ME AND MY OTHER GUY'S PLAN!

People get way too worked up over online games. : <

The thing is he moved 5 hours away...

Well, I don't have much advice other than you can talk to your friend about your disappointment and work something out (he makes a new character to level solely with you two) or move on. Not worth the time wasted being annoyed about it.

I can tell you from someone who has ran guilds, raids, server events, regular groups/events that getting people together in an MMO to do anything no matter how many or how little will always be a challenge. One can have great plans but by the end of the day it won't go as planned. Stuff happens. People want to do this dungeon or do this quest line instead of this one or raid, join guilds etc. At the end of the day everyone pays for the subscription and should be able to play as they want to.

It sounds like your friend joined the guild early on when he started out. Did he tell you why? Did he agree that he should level with you guys and only you guys or was it assumed? Was it agreed that no one would independently join a guild? It sounds like communication could be better here based on what you've told us. Does your friend know why you are mad at him? Why not tell him why you don't want to join his new friends in grouping?

Not sure why you mentioned the age of the men.

If it doesn't work out with your friend why not group with some random people in game? I've met lots of cool people (yes and some duds)from randomly grouping. You could find your new 3rd person easily.

LOL you don't know the half of it... MMO games have more drama than daytime soap operas.

I've lived with people who were hooked on League of Legends. I've seen what it does to people, and that's why I refuse to play it. I also don't play Counter Strike or TF2 much anymore because I know how rage-inducing they can be.

OP, just play how you want to play, but tone down the aggression. No one, however much they have disappointed you in a GAME, needs to be dealing with that.

I don't think either of you get the point. When you want to play with a friend on a game, then you'd probably feel a little betrayed if they suddenly went off and started playing with somebody that they don't even know rather than yourself. It'd be more so if they started slandering you meaninglessly because of your evident frustration with them for going off and refusing to play with you because people they don't even know can boost them faster.

Strangely, it appears to be the inverse of what both of you are claiming; the OP wants to be with his friend, and his friend is more focused on the game to care about him. He's the one taking a game too seriously, sacrificing a friendship for the sake of it.