There's a difference between "playing games" and using tact when dealing with people. When I started dating my husband I fell for him pretty fast and hard, but I know if I just went in full-force I would have scared him off. Refraining from calling him every time I wanted to wasn't me playing a game, it was me not coming on too strong. Like you said, Bastian, coming off as too eager is a problem, depending on who you're dealing with.

I admit I'm involved in a bit of a "game," I suppose, right now. I don't really want to go into details because it's a long freaking story, but suffice it to say that one of my girl friends likes one of my guy friends but he isn't attracted to her, so she needs to play it slow and see if they can get to know each other before she lets her feelings be known at all or she's going to get shot down before he realizes what he's missing because, being the idiot that he is, he thinks a relationship needs to start with physical attraction to be worth his time. Which is probably a big part of the reason why he's never had a girlfriend at nearly 27-years-old.