Dshpls tells the story of his friend's girlfriend's family over on the forums-- mother, father, sons and daughter all play World of Warcraft together. As a lot of players say on the forums, it's not really all that weird anymore-- WoW is showing up on commercials and even grandmothers play the game-- but it does still seem like a rare occurrence. My parents just aren't the videogame type, and my brother and sister were never that interested, either, so I always think of WoW as a more social activity than a family one.But then again, whenever I abandon this bachelor life of "gaming blogger" and settle down in a house with a few more bedrooms than I need, I'll probably be inclined to do a little family gaming myself. As our own Robin Torres can tell you, gaming with family is just as fun as gaming to get away from family, and probably more fulfilling, too.
When you sit down to grind EOTS marks for the Season 1 Arena awards this weekend, will your family be sitting next to you yelling to get to the Blood Elf tower? Or are you glad they're on their own, playing Sudoku and golf, rather than the videogames you love so much?
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10-19-2007 @ 6:32PM
JMCampbell said...
With something this time consuming, for me it's almost mandatory that I include my wife. (Our daughter is only 6 months old so she's not playing but loves to help us jump and watch hippogryph flights.) My wife has a Horde priest. I don't care for Horde and my schedule keeps me at work a lot, so we don't play together a bunch. But if either of us needs help the other will and we have a couple characters we play together.
As with everything it all comes down to balance. Our next issue is getting both of us away from the computer more and being a little bit healthier.
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10-19-2007 @ 6:33PM
iloria said...
My father got me started on WoW. After he heard about it from my brother, he started accounts for me and my sister. We still play together around once a week, joined by either my bf or my sister's bf, and it's great fun. My main is on another server from the family, but my dad and brother also raid together. It's wonderful to play together, because it keeps us all in touch (we live in different states and only see each other on holidays, if that). But it does drive the non-WoWing family members to distraction when all we want to talk about over Thanksgiving dinner is raid strats!
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10-19-2007 @ 6:52PM
prudychick said...
My side of the family would thing WoW was a strange, waste of time. My husbands though knows we play and my husband and his brother and I play together from time to time, most only the two of them though.
I work with someone though who she and her husband and their son and grandson all play together. Even started a family guild for all of their toons.
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10-19-2007 @ 7:28PM
Patecatl said...
The people who introduced me to WoW are a married couple. Their oldest son is also in our guild. In fact, this ten-year-old pwned me in a duel (his Draenei 39 (at the time) Shaman vs. my Human 40 (at the time) Shadow Priest).
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10-19-2007 @ 7:41PM
kunukia said...
My son and my daughter play, as do her husband, his brother and father. We also have four RL friends who play. We are all in the same guild, except one of the friends, who used to be guild leader, left for a more hard-core raiding guild.
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10-20-2007 @ 12:42AM
MonkeyBrains said...
My mom plays and she's 53 this year, she had never really played anything else besides super mario bros.
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10-20-2007 @ 1:26AM
ladyshiva said...
Me, my father, my brother, my brother's wife, and my boyfriend all play wow :) I got my dad into wow, and he plays way more than me now!
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10-20-2007 @ 3:27AM
Travis Green said...
My older brother and younger sister also play. However, the game was "too stupid" for my girlfriend to get into.
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10-20-2007 @ 8:09AM
Chiroptera said...
Myself and my partner play
We have several couples in the guild - husbands and wives etc and numerous complete families - the largest "group" in mother, father, daughter, son in law, their other son - and the sons Mother-in-law.
We hace numerous brothers and such as well
Youngest guildie is around 8 (their parents play) oldest is around 65+
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10-22-2007 @ 1:55PM
starbane said...
My father occasionally gets annoyed when he doesn't get a raid spot. My wife tries to give me her raid spot. My daughter prefers to languish in the pre-60s (she just got her mount a few weeks ago) and my brother only started playing his warlock.
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