This is one of the sillier articles that PC Gamer UK has probably ever written about massively multiplayer online games, but still, I enjoyed it. One of their writers went (only half seriously) looking for love in a few popular virtual worlds, and he found it, surprisingly enough, in Azeroth.Neither EvE Online or City of Heroes were very helpful in the love-finding department -- despite finding a fetching young lady superheroine in CoH, the writer was a little disappointed to find out she was a he behind the keyboard. But WoW, as usual, provides the best of MMO experiences -- the writer finds some cute love in the Night Elf starting area.
Sure, it's silly (and probably not true -- just because someone says they're a Finnish college student means nothing at all online). But I found it strangely touching, the thought that a real human connection could be made in an online game. And isn't that why we play these in the first place?
[via WorldofWar.net]
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7-23-2008 @ 5:35PM
bigbankhank said...
Blood elves made me fall in love with my hand all over again
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7-23-2008 @ 5:50PM
vlad said...
dammit. i cant believe you.
totaly beat me to what i was going to say almost verbatim
7-23-2008 @ 6:02PM
Superstone said...
I know two people who are actually married after meeting in WoW.
10 million people who love video games. Thousands on a server... it happens.
/shrug
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7-23-2008 @ 6:27PM
Sy said...
There's a guy on the Arathor realm called Jonboyo, a nelf rogue. I'm an undead rogue, whenever we see each other on the BG list we deliberatly try to find the other, sap them and beat the living crap out of them. Then the /rofl emote occurs at the dead player, this has been going on for a few days now and its stupid how funny its become.
So heres to you jonboyo, your a decent rogue and one of the few opponents that makes me work to win at a fight, even if you are a scumbag alli, huzzah!
Amazing how unlikely friendships can be made across realms and through a language barrier just from monging around with emotes.
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7-24-2008 @ 11:04AM
Badger said...
"So heres to you jonboyo"
I heard the music from the Budweiser commercials the minute I read this line.
7-23-2008 @ 6:27PM
Manatank said...
I met my girlfriend playing WoW. She's smart, beautiful, and one of the best players I've run with.
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7-23-2008 @ 7:59PM
Juneau said...
I got that mag a while ago and I've read the article, it was a good read. Bloody hilarious. I was thinking about trying what he did on WoW for a laugh sometime, but I never got round to it. Cheers for reminding me, haha.
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7-24-2008 @ 2:05AM
Tenchan said...
I honestly don't get why that's still treated as something so special. Millions of people sharing the same hobby. Of course you form bonds of all kinds. And not all of us are little boys (or old men) pretending to be women. I guess the stereotypes still stick too much in peoples' minds.
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7-24-2008 @ 5:50AM
Muhlin said...
I have 2 couples who met through Warcraft, and both couples now have a child together. Pretty great!!!
One of them was my colleague at work who I bullied into playing, and his son now shares my name. The other couple met at my guild meeting.
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7-24-2008 @ 6:27AM
nekolux said...
Ahh , that is touching isnt it? I guess apart from all the drama that we see, friendships are formed on a daily basis im sure loads of us have felt that way.
Kind of cool isnt it? knowing some one thousands of miles away from you.
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7-24-2008 @ 7:03AM
BenGraven said...
I'm burping my 4 month old son now. His mom and I met through our guild 2 years ago.
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7-24-2008 @ 8:25AM
berry said...
I started playing with my ex while he went to school, fell into the game kept playing after we broke up and then met my fiancé through a pug 5-man and the rest is history lol.
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7-24-2008 @ 11:04AM
Badger said...
"But I found it strangely touching, the thought that a real human connection could be made in an online game. And isn't that why we play these in the first place?"
Huh ... I thought we played it for the Purples and the Arena Points.
I KEED, I KEED
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7-24-2008 @ 2:33PM
Lizardking63 said...
In what is quickly becoming a busy world where people rarely connect face-to-face anymore, is it all that strange that people are connecting through other mediums. I think it will one day become the norm not the exception.
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7-24-2008 @ 2:44PM
Bynde said...
I wonder how many relationships (real life ones) have started by people meeting in WoW. I also wonder how many relationships died because of WoW.
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7-24-2008 @ 4:04PM
Fox said...
I really don't think this is an uncommon as the article seems to imply.
http://www.unbearably.net/2008/04/22/fel-forge-romance/
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7-24-2008 @ 7:22PM
Sy said...
@ Badger
Funnily enough a guildy of mine sent a link to one of those ads on youtube. The phrase stuck when typing that post lol. "real men of genius" ftw.
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