I voted no. Getting into online relationships has been kind of hard for me because I prefer knowing my lovers in real life first, and I've never gone around meeting my online friends.
Besides, most of the people that I spent a lot of time with share the same gender as me, and I think I'm heterosexual.
Sometimes I wish that I had,then perhaps I would pull less wife aggro when I log on and play my favorite games.(Wait!!...I don't have a favorite game right now..er nevermind)
My wife thinks MMORPG's have a pause button.
I think it would be cool to meet someone in a game,at the very least you would know that you have that activity in common.
I did meet a girl in an online chat room a few years ago and we got to talking on the phone and stuff eventually....She sent a bunch of pics and of course she was very pretty.......Only problem was the pictures she sent me were of her friend and that she looked nothing like the pictures she sent me......After that Ilost all trust in internet relationships and have only dated people I have met in person......The downside is I have never dated a woman that liked online games (or games in general really).........
I can recal a story about a girl from back in the day when i use to play Warcraft III.
For about 1 and a half years there was this girl called "Blondegirl" I personaly never even flirted with her (just friends), but there where a number of guys who i know cybered with her several times.
Eventually she met this real cute asian girl and they apparantly fell in love and were dating online for months..
Untill it finaly came out in the open (Can't remember how, I think somone caught her out) that she was infact a guy who for more than a year had pretended to be a chick because he new girls get special treatment in games.
He then whent on to claim that his reason for living as a girl alias for so long was because he had fallen in love with this asian girl and did not want to lose her!
After that lots of guys felt really dirty... and i dont blame them >_<
I guess the moral is this kinda shit happens all the time and im sure half the time the poeple its happening to never even fined out!
I was trying to get my Necro to 50 from 49. My now wife was there soloing on a paladin who was already 50.
So I asked if she wanted to join me while I pulled fish.
Noone was there because it was like 3am.
So anyway, she said sure and we spent about 3 hours pulling fish and conversing.
So at the end of the morning, we added one another to friends list, and a few days later I sent her a message because I needed a grinding partner again.
We eventually got that Necro to 50 lol.
Relationship kinda grew from there. Eventually I asked her for her out of game messenger handle. Which was yahoo.
We spoke in game and out of game for about 4 months or so. Flirting like 2 school kids. (we were both 24 at the time).
Anyway on about our 5th month we kinda decided we would like to meet one another, we had already exchanged pictures and things the month prior.
Turned out her mom and dad owned a hotel and campground in cody wyoming.
So I bought a plane ticket and flew out there for 2 weeks.
We went and spent a few days in yellowstone, driving around looking for bears. Watching Ol Faithful erupt. Things of that nature.
Then we rolled down to Jackson Hole, and rented a honeymoon suite from one of the Hotels there. (pssst. the 4 person tub was awesome)
After that we went to some rodeos, and pow wow's and then we just kinda hung out in the town for the last few days.
We clicked so well the 2 weeks I was there that I asked her to return home with me and she accepted.
2 years later we were married, and now have 2 little ones, a 3 year old Girl and 1 year old Boy.
I make it a personal rule to not meet people I only know via the internet. I've broken this rule of course, with no problems etc, but I value my personal privacy and security quite highly.
I think it's cool to find someone you can love online. I think it's cool to find someone you can love in the supermarket queue. Whenever and wherever you have human contact, that's a great place to find love in my opinion.
How dull life would be otherwise.
Try not to fly off to Amsterdam for a dirty weekend with a 14 year old if you can.
I met my wife online, in a forum, now we are married and have a baby. A friend of mine met his other half in SWG and they got married about a year ago (i was there) and another friend at work met his other half in a dating site and they got married too (I was there too).
Real life is the way to go but as we know one shows his-her true self after years of close relationship (living together not just having sex) and it does not matter at all how the relationship started (online or offline).
In online relationships people who participate in them can hide their intentions and their true identity easily. I'll be rude but true, some people just want to have sex (they confuse love with sex) and some just want to be admired.
People who lie online will lie in real life and people who are honest will be honest. Just do it but be careful and ensure your safety.
Needs a third option. No GF Looser IRL...and on the net
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I'm always suspicious of online relationships. I wouldn't class it a 'relationship' until the two people have actually met in real life and begun dating. I'm sure others would argue with that, though. I take the whole 'internet dating' scene with a pinch of salt. Yes it is an excellent place to get to know people, but from experience, people can be very different personalities online and in the flesh. Personally, it is not something I would ever get involved in.
I met my wife from work. Basically everyone on our unit was going to a concert, and we struck up a friendship and ended up getting married a few years later. We have been together exclusively since 1997, but we got married in 2000.
In about 10 years of online gaming I have only met one person from online, and I knew him for 5 years and we were just friends in game and since we lived about 4 hours apart decided to meet halfway one day. It was awesome! But he was nothing in person like what I imagined.
I think its definitetly wierd when people say they have met their significant other online. To me it seems like an act of desperation, but then some people spend a good deal of their lives online so maybe that is normal for them. I think it's a little strange though....
You definitely need to have the "no significant other" option there! *sighs*
I think it's just meant for ppl in relationships
But don't worry mate, you'll find yours. I wish you luck, because it's a long hard lonely road... in the meantime concentrate on YOU and let the rest fall into place when the time is right... that's what I'm trying to do.
Why do I write, create, fantasize, dream and daydream about other worlds? Because I hate what humanity does with this one.
yea...sorta...this really has me bugged. We had this convo on the off-topc forum and someone there seems to think it is lame to start a relationship with someone online...like on a gming website messge board or in an onlinegame. So I wish to know how others feel about this.
Nothing wrong with starting something. But if you are getting to the point of something more than just starting and never doing anything but being online, then perhaps that might be a problem.
If you have never met in person then you are just "other", not "significant". No matter how good you may be at fooling yourself otherwise.
I met my husband of 11 years online. He was recovering from knee surgery and I was recovering from a back injury. It was a chance meeting that later turned into friendship. That friendship 2 years later turned into more and today we are married with 2 boys.
some think it strange..some think its abnormal, but in todays technology world its really no different than going to a bar or club. You just have to be careful just like you would if you met a new person at a club or bar.
I met my wife in UO. She was griefing the hell out of me. Apparently some things never change.
Best....story...EvAr!!!
I kinda met my wife online? I actually knew her, she had lived in my house when I was previously married...
She had stayed with us for about a year, and I pretty much spent most of that time avoiding the hell out of her because I didn't want to get in trouble....
Anyway, she left, and nearly two years later, she heard through myspace that I was single, looked me up, we started talking, met up a couple months later, that was oh..three years ago? now we're married with a baby boy...
Interesting poll results, higher than I expected to see honestly. My last relationship started online (In a game) and ironically we didn't live too far away from each other, and when we met it was a little odd because even though we knew each other something felt different but we did begin dating but in the end it didn't work out. The problem as stated in many posts above, is that people create an anonymous identity online and as they find some one they like very much they try to whipe their slate clean but thus revealing many lies about themselves to their partner when they meet up, causes lots of tension sometimes. Yyou can't trust people online no matter what they say or act like, but in some cases it's a risk you have to be willing to take if you want to try and create a relationship.
See I've got a work around for that - Honesty. It works pretty well. So long as you distinguish any RP stuff from your real self when you start getting to know each other... Being open and honest seems to do the job - and if it doesn't OH WELL wasn't meant to be... wouldn't have lasted on lies.
Why do I write, create, fantasize, dream and daydream about other worlds? Because I hate what humanity does with this one.
Yeh I met my wife online, we met through a singles site.
She's easily the most beautfiul and intelligent woman I'v ever met, and I'v met a few.
We have been married over 4 years now.
She wasn't the only beautiful and intelligent woman I met through singles sites either.
Seriously I met more beautiful and intelligent women in one year than I did in 10 years prior. And I met quite a few.
The thing to remember, is no matter what level of life your at, whether your perfect, average, or below average, as a person, based on whatever criteria you want to use; there are women out there who are in exactly the same position your in, they just want to meet someone compatible with them, who is on their level.
I met my fair share of stealth freaky bitches, and I met my fair share of babes. And I married a perfect freaken 9 kind of a woman on my rather high standard of scales.
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I voted no. Getting into online relationships has been kind of hard for me because I prefer knowing my lovers in real life first, and I've never gone around meeting my online friends.
Besides, most of the people that I spent a lot of time with share the same gender as me, and I think I'm heterosexual.
No,I did not meet my wife online.
Sometimes I wish that I had,then perhaps I would pull less wife aggro when I log on and play my favorite games.(Wait!!...I don't have a favorite game right now..er nevermind)
My wife thinks MMORPG's have a pause button.
I think it would be cool to meet someone in a game,at the very least you would know that you have that activity in common.
I did meet a girl in an online chat room a few years ago and we got to talking on the phone and stuff eventually....She sent a bunch of pics and of course she was very pretty.......Only problem was the pictures she sent me were of her friend and that she looked nothing like the pictures she sent me......After that Ilost all trust in internet relationships and have only dated people I have met in person......The downside is I have never dated a woman that liked online games (or games in general really).........
I can recal a story about a girl from back in the day when i use to play Warcraft III.
For about 1 and a half years there was this girl called "Blondegirl" I personaly never even flirted with her (just friends), but there where a number of guys who i know cybered with her several times.
Eventually she met this real cute asian girl and they apparantly fell in love and were dating online for months..
Untill it finaly came out in the open (Can't remember how, I think somone caught her out) that she was infact a guy who for more than a year had pretended to be a chick because he new girls get special treatment in games.
He then whent on to claim that his reason for living as a girl alias for so long was because he had fallen in love with this asian girl and did not want to lose her!
After that lots of guys felt really dirty... and i dont blame them >_<
I guess the moral is this kinda shit happens all the time and im sure half the time the poeple its happening to never even fined out!
Watch out girls and boys.
Regs,
Kit
I met my wife in DAoC Galahad server, In AC.
I was trying to get my Necro to 50 from 49. My now wife was there soloing on a paladin who was already 50.
So I asked if she wanted to join me while I pulled fish.
Noone was there because it was like 3am.
So anyway, she said sure and we spent about 3 hours pulling fish and conversing.
So at the end of the morning, we added one another to friends list, and a few days later I sent her a message because I needed a grinding partner again.
We eventually got that Necro to 50 lol.
Relationship kinda grew from there. Eventually I asked her for her out of game messenger handle. Which was yahoo.
We spoke in game and out of game for about 4 months or so. Flirting like 2 school kids. (we were both 24 at the time).
Anyway on about our 5th month we kinda decided we would like to meet one another, we had already exchanged pictures and things the month prior.
Turned out her mom and dad owned a hotel and campground in cody wyoming.
So I bought a plane ticket and flew out there for 2 weeks.
We went and spent a few days in yellowstone, driving around looking for bears. Watching Ol Faithful erupt. Things of that nature.
Then we rolled down to Jackson Hole, and rented a honeymoon suite from one of the Hotels there. (pssst. the 4 person tub was awesome)
After that we went to some rodeos, and pow wow's and then we just kinda hung out in the town for the last few days.
We clicked so well the 2 weeks I was there that I asked her to return home with me and she accepted.
2 years later we were married, and now have 2 little ones, a 3 year old Girl and 1 year old Boy.
The End.
I met Mrs Baff at work.
I make it a personal rule to not meet people I only know via the internet. I've broken this rule of course, with no problems etc, but I value my personal privacy and security quite highly.
I think it's cool to find someone you can love online. I think it's cool to find someone you can love in the supermarket queue. Whenever and wherever you have human contact, that's a great place to find love in my opinion.
How dull life would be otherwise.
Try not to fly off to Amsterdam for a dirty weekend with a 14 year old if you can.
I met my wife online, in a forum, now we are married and have a baby. A friend of mine met his other half in SWG and they got married about a year ago (i was there) and another friend at work met his other half in a dating site and they got married too (I was there too).
Real life is the way to go but as we know one shows his-her true self after years of close relationship (living together not just having sex) and it does not matter at all how the relationship started (online or offline).
In online relationships people who participate in them can hide their intentions and their true identity easily. I'll be rude but true, some people just want to have sex (they confuse love with sex) and some just want to be admired.
People who lie online will lie in real life and people who are honest will be honest. Just do it but be careful and ensure your safety.
I am very strict in my rule never ever to make online dating in any form. It just invites trouble.
Tho I am kinda surprised it really worked out for some. Still, call me old fashioned, but games and spouses dont mix in my book.
People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert
You definitely need to have the "no significant other" option there! *sighs*
My blog is a continuing story of what MMO's should be like.
you're not alone ekibiogami
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Favorite MMOs: WoW, SWG Pre-cu, Lineage 2, UO, EQ, EVE online
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this.
I need more vespene gas.
Answered you in the other thread but thats ok...I met my girlfriend in Everquest and we been living together for almost 7 years now.
I met my wife from work. Basically everyone on our unit was going to a concert, and we struck up a friendship and ended up getting married a few years later. We have been together exclusively since 1997, but we got married in 2000.
In about 10 years of online gaming I have only met one person from online, and I knew him for 5 years and we were just friends in game and since we lived about 4 hours apart decided to meet halfway one day. It was awesome! But he was nothing in person like what I imagined.
I think its definitetly wierd when people say they have met their significant other online. To me it seems like an act of desperation, but then some people spend a good deal of their lives online so maybe that is normal for them. I think it's a little strange though....
I met her in a bar, drinking some beer.
I think it's just meant for ppl in relationships
But don't worry mate, you'll find yours. I wish you luck, because it's a long hard lonely road... in the meantime concentrate on YOU and let the rest fall into place when the time is right... that's what I'm trying to do.
BOYCOTTING EA / ORIGIN going forward.
yea...sorta...this really has me bugged. We had this convo on the off-topc forum and someone there seems to think it is lame to start a relationship with someone online...like on a gming website messge board or in an onlinegame. So I wish to know how others feel about this.
Nothing wrong with starting something. But if you are getting to the point of something more than just starting and never doing anything but being online, then perhaps that might be a problem.
If you have never met in person then you are just "other", not "significant". No matter how good you may be at fooling yourself otherwise.
I met my husband of 11 years online. He was recovering from knee surgery and I was recovering from a back injury. It was a chance meeting that later turned into friendship. That friendship 2 years later turned into more and today we are married with 2 boys.
some think it strange..some think its abnormal, but in todays technology world its really no different than going to a bar or club. You just have to be careful just like you would if you met a new person at a club or bar.
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lol
Best....story...EvAr!!!
I kinda met my wife online? I actually knew her, she had lived in my house when I was previously married...
She had stayed with us for about a year, and I pretty much spent most of that time avoiding the hell out of her because I didn't want to get in trouble....
Anyway, she left, and nearly two years later, she heard through myspace that I was single, looked me up, we started talking, met up a couple months later, that was oh..three years ago? now we're married with a baby boy...
so....sorta?
See I've got a work around for that - Honesty. It works pretty well. So long as you distinguish any RP stuff from your real self when you start getting to know each other... Being open and honest seems to do the job - and if it doesn't OH WELL wasn't meant to be... wouldn't have lasted on lies.
BOYCOTTING EA / ORIGIN going forward.
Yeh I met my wife online, we met through a singles site.
She's easily the most beautfiul and intelligent woman I'v ever met, and I'v met a few.
We have been married over 4 years now.
She wasn't the only beautiful and intelligent woman I met through singles sites either.
Seriously I met more beautiful and intelligent women in one year than I did in 10 years prior. And I met quite a few.
The thing to remember, is no matter what level of life your at, whether your perfect, average, or below average, as a person, based on whatever criteria you want to use; there are women out there who are in exactly the same position your in, they just want to meet someone compatible with them, who is on their level.
I met my fair share of stealth freaky bitches, and I met my fair share of babes. And I married a perfect freaken 9 kind of a woman on my rather high standard of scales.
I met my wife at work. I bet a lot of people meet their SO that way. Coincidentally, today is our wedding anniversary.
Happy anniversary
BOYCOTTING EA / ORIGIN going forward.
I didn't meet my current one no. But I have in the past... <3break