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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sammael" data-source="post: 5673416" data-attributes="member: 4475">Out of the ~15 friends I game with, only 2 or 3 ever show up on time. I am usually punctual, but since most other people aren't, I stopped caring about it a long time ago. I only game on weekends, usually from 4 pm until 10 pm, so if we start an hour late we still get about 5 hours of gaming which is plenty (and these days, I have trouble staying focused and alert for more than 4-5 hours anyway). I think the key difference in opinion here is whether you mostly play with friends, i.e. people you would spend time socializing with anyway, or you play with other gamers who are not in your usual social circles. I don't do option #2 anymore - I only play with friends or friends of friends, and so I'm perfectly fine spending half an hour (or even longer) sipping coffee and chatting with a couple of people until everyone shows up. One thing I do like, though, is being notified - sending a text only takes a couple of secs.What bothers me more than tardiness is when players don't pay attention to the game and play with their tablet PCs/smartphones/whatever instead.</blockquote>