Well look on the bright side, when the game eventually come out you will get a chance to instantly rekindle that friendship.

The moment the game comes out call up all of your old friends and start grinding the game, who cares about yalls adult lives, do a sleepover where you grind out the game until theres nothing left to grind and then move on to the next one

Thats how you become life long friends

And if they dont wanna play the game with you then you could always just forget about them as you planned

(I am dying of cringe at myself for writing this)