Basically, they are "great friends" and have been for decades. The thing is, we've been telling him for a while that we're playing a more complex survival game than Minecraft. We showed him around, and he says it's good. Yesterday, "Gardungo" offered to buy the game for "Pardo," but the latter started making things difficult (he said he didn't understand the website, that it wouldn't let him create an account, and he hesitated too much to join the game).
It's worth providing a little more context: This person called "Pardo" plays Minecraft and invites us to play every day. The issue is that Gardungo and I are playing Vintage Story, which is much harder to progress, and we don't want to abandon all our progress to play Minecraft, which is just about creating a Nether portal and then starting to find the portal to The End to kill the Dragon—something we've done dozens of times, not only in the past but also this year...
