Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : To preface, my friend and I are mostly over this. We both think the other’s wrong, but we’ve moved past it. Here’s the story

I was over at a friends house and we were just kind of chilling and playing video games. We go on a walk and on the walk he basically decides “I’m going to make you play my favorite game of all time.” I knew what game it was, and I already knew I didn’t like it, since I had actually bought it before and promptly deleted it after playing three hours. He made me play it for a while and I did my best to pretend to like it. I should add here that my friend is VERY passionate about this video game. Basically an insult to the game is an insult to him. I didn’t really hate my experience, but I was totally burnt after two hours. 

This is where the conflict comes in. He asked me what I thought and I said something along the lines “I didn’t hate it as much as I thought I would.” I chose my words very carefully to show that I didn’t really like the game while still trying to protect his feelings. I guess I did too convincing of a job, because he thought I genuinely liked it and his immediate response was to go online and ask if he should buy it for me. (He can definitely afford it better than me) I tell him that I wouldn’t if I was him because I’m not quite sure I would play it a lot. He basically told me it was too late because he had already bought me the game. 

Fast forward a few weeks. The game is delivered, he gives it to me, and I play it for about 90 minutes before putting it away. The next week he asks me how far I am in the game, and he gets extremely offended when I tell him I’m not really playing it because I don’t like it. He basically accused me of lying to manipulate him into spending sixty dollars on me. I didn’t even want him to buy me the game. My argument is that He loves it so much he can’t imagine anyone else disliking it, so he convinced himself that I did too. He’s really upset about how his money went wasted (he bought it online so it’s non-refundable), but I told him that it’s his fault for buying it without being sure I wanted it. AITA?

TL;DR: Friend asked if I liked a game that he loves, I say it’s ok, he buys it for me without me asking for it, I don’t play it, he’s mad that he wasted money.  