Roommate Wants You to Pay for Watching Her Play Resident Evil 7

A gamer asks for advice after their roommate demanded they split the cost of Resident Evil 7 — simply because they watched her play it. The internet has thoughts.

Picture this: your roommate buys Resident Evil 7, you hang out and watch her play, and then she hits you with a Venmo request. Her reasoning? "We played it together." Yeah, apparently watching counts now.

That's exactly the situation one confused gamer found themselves in, according to a post that's been making the rounds online. The roommate bought Capcom's horror hit, the poster watched her play it, and then came the message asking them to transfer some money for the experience. Cue the record scratch.

The internet, as always, delivered. One commenter joked that you should just show her some money and call it even — after all, looking at cash and looking at a game are basically the same thing. Another suggested the roommate should start livestreaming and get rich, then split her streaming income with the poor soul who served as her live studio audience. Honestly? Fair point.

But among the memes, some genuinely solid advice surfaced. The most upvoted take was refreshingly blunt: just say no. This isn't about the money, it's about boundaries. Watching someone play a game doesn't make you a co-op partner, and it definitely doesn't make you a co-owner of their copy of Resident Evil 7.

Then there were the comedians. One person suggested firing back with a counter-invoice for emotional damages — because let's be real, the jumpscares in Resident Evil 7 are not cheap. If you're paying for the privilege of watching someone get chased around a creepy Louisiana house, you deserve hazard pay.

The whole saga raises a weirdly relatable question: where do you draw the line between sharing an experience and owing someone for it? Is watching your friend play through a game worth splitting the bill? Or is that just... hanging out? Most of us would say the latter, but apparently not everyone got that memo.

So, what's the wildest thing a friend or roommate has ever tried to charge you for? Ever been asked to chip in for a game you didn't even touch the controller for? Drop your stories in the comments — we know you've got some good ones.