How do I (f20), tell my friend(m26) that I believe his friend (nb?) had a incorrect opinion about a game, without angering or ruining the relationship?
I have a made a new friend, who I will call S(M26). We then became fast friends and I often watch and participate in his YouTube streams. One day, I found out that a anticipated game I was waiting for, had came out. The game will be called W.
I was deciding whether or not to buy it, till I heard that S on a live stream explained that he wasn't gonna play W due to a friend of his telling him that W contained ableist jokes. I was surprised as the developer of W was very famous and had made previous games that were famous, one of thoes games I will call B.
I was first introduced to this developers work via B and while that game delt with specific issues, I personally didn't remember there being any ableist jokes. I had even asked my brother who had B downloaded on his computer if he encountered any ableist jokes and he said he didn't. I later decided to buy W and look through the gameplay with an unbias lens and look out for ableist jokes.
After a couple of weeks I had came to the conclusion that S's friend (who I will call o) was incorrect and that W wasn't ableist but was actually inclusive.
I attempted to try to talk to O via the help of S, but S confessed that he didn't want to contact O because he was worried that my interaction would ruin his long-standing relationship with O and would end up being cut off from them. I reassured S that I was not planning to ruin his relationship with O and generally wanted to talk to him. I then later learned that O had change his settings to friends only, (we were talking via discord) and eventually we were both too scared to try to contact O and decided to stop.
A few days have passed and my opinion has not changed but only strengthen and I wish to attempt to talk to O again and explain my side of of his argument.
However, I generally do not want to ruin S's relationship with O. I just simply want S to play W because it's become one of my most favorite games of all time, and I want to bond with him more.
Not to mention, S is has very low self esteem and schizophrenia. And has admitted that he doesn't want to question his friend in fear of losing him.
So do you have any advice on how I can approach this without scaring or ruining anything up? I just want my friend to play the game I've been hyperfixating on for the past month and show him how awesome it is.