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Gamewize
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http://www.fileplanet.com/152447/150000/fileinfo/World-of-Warcraft---Online-Matchmaking-Service
This is got to be the most hilarious thing ive seen for an MMO, the World of Warcraft matchmaking service. Not sure if any of you have heard of this, but it scares me to no extent...its just so...freaky. Its a thing that makes you go "What the HELL?". but yeah, literally though, what the hell?
I think it's the objective of your past self to make you cringe.
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dude thats so freakin weird!
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WoW is not promoting an online matching service.
The article simply talks about how two people met while playing WoW, and met in person at a live fan event, then hit it off and started dating in real life.
EQdead has had live fan events for years where folks have befriended each other in real life as well.
"We feel gold selling and websites that promote it damage games like Vanguard and will do everything possible to combat it."
Brad McQuaid
Chairman & CEO, Sigil Games Online, Inc.
Executive Producer, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
www.vanguardsoh
Actually I know several couples who met, got to know one another and eventually arranged RL meetings as far back as Multi User BBS's. This isn't anything remotely recent. It's been going on since the 80's. It's only "NEWS" now because the relationship nazi's in the world think there's something wrong with meeting a life partner online initially.
Seriously folks, in todays world which is more likely:
You work all day
You go home tired
You log on and play an MMO for several hours then go to bed
You occasionally go out for drinks on a friday
Where are you more likely to meet someone who shares your interest:
In a BAR where you meet them for an hour, maybe 3? Or in an MMO where you spend Hours EVERY DAY with them? The only other alternative is to wind up marrying someone you know at work (which is also more and more common in today's society). People don't just "go out" anymore, not nearly as much as when I was in my 20's. Hell people on my street don't even know their neighbors... but oddly I remember when I was 16 my neighborhood was tight... we all knew each other. Today my daughter barely knows kids 2 doors down.
In today's society?
My vote would be for the MMO or Work relationship. It may be 'unconventional' but every person I know who got married due to an online relationship is STILL married whereas most of the folks I know who got hitched to some girl/guy they boinked after meeting up in a bar are divorced. And I would venture to bet that more MMO marriages survive than work ones as well.
Now THAT would be an interesting topic for some geek working on their masters. Instead of asking us about our addiction to online games do a survey of how many MMO relationships that turn into marriage survive compared to more 'conventional' engagements.
Currently Playing: Dungeons and Dragons Online.
Sig image Pending
Still in: A couple Betas
MMO's are a great place to meet new um "friends" In my 6 years in UO I met two "friends" and we even visited each other a few times. Canada/USA/Australia it was really great to get so close to someone just from playing a game.
Im married now but I still talk to both these people and I hope to visit them again soon, although my wife will make sure its not quite as "friendly" as it was back in the day Im sure
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"MMOs, for people that like think chatting is like a skill or something, rotflol"
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"Far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees. To hear the softly spoken magic spell" Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
I would never arrange to meet someone in game, unless if they give me dozens of random pics of themselves, and have a webcam
No, I don't want to meet a mass murderer and be too late when I find out about it (AKA DEAD)
Just make sure you meet them in a public place and don't give out any personal information.
Anyone can send you pics of other people, and claim to be them. Don't rely on those.
"We feel gold selling and websites that promote it damage games like Vanguard and will do everything possible to combat it."
Brad McQuaid
Chairman & CEO, Sigil Games Online, Inc.
Executive Producer, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
www.vanguardsoh
I have met numerous people on numerous occasions that I originally met online. Some friends from multiplayer BBS's and I used to get together in Chicago on a regular basis. Then when I got into MUDS in college I met a friend from New Jersey, we still keep in touch. And several friends who went to Geneseo College in New York. We've fallen out of touch but at one point when I was really down on my luck they had offered to let me move into their rental with them till I got back on my feet.
I wound up getting back up on my own but some of my best friends were met online. I met several folks from my guild in UO all of whom I still keep in touch with. In fact I was the best man at John's wedding and we're planning to have the families meet up down in Nags Head this summer.
I even meet up with friends on my Fantasy Football website to go to Games that are near one or the other. Went to a philly/Dallas game with some guys from the site and have gone to Carolina and Redskin / Dallas games with others.
Meeting people whom you met online isn't dangerous as long as you're smart about it. It's not something to be done lightly nor is it something to do in a private manner the first couple times. Meet at an amusement park or shopping center or something and get to know them on 'neutral' ground. But 99.999% of the time it's actually safer than hooking up with some girl/guy at the bar. Stalkers typically don't hang out on MMO's they're more likely to frequent the sex chat rooms on IRC or whatnot.
I've gotten into much more trouble going home with a girl I met at a club than I ever got into meeting up with friends whom I've known for months/years online. As I said, some of those friendships persist to this day, 8-9 even 10 years later. I still keep in touch with my friends from GEnie back in '89.
Anyway:
There's a lot of hype about the 'DANGERS' of meeting up with an online friend. Just be smart about it. If you were going on a date with someone for the first time you wouldn't go to their house would ya? I sure wouldn't.... not on the first date. Same goes here. Meet somewhere neutral and public.
Currently Playing: Dungeons and Dragons Online.
Sig image Pending
Still in: A couple Betas
Ok, now thats odd.
Finding love over a game is just plain weird.
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"MMOs, for people that like think chatting is like a skill or something, rotflol"
http://purepwnage.com
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"Far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees. To hear the softly spoken magic spell" Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
No, because in a bar you can actually meet the person, not their character.
Well, every person you meet in a bar does not act like that all the time. You aren't usually meeting the real person, just their cover they have when they're out having fun. In truth whenever you first meet someone you usually aren't seeing who they really are, that usually comes later down the line if you continue having a relationship with them. It's the same as in a bar as it is online. But then again I'm just trying to be deep and I'm going off-topic....
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Playing: WOW & GW
Yup Ominis is absolutely right!
In a bar you meet their character too.
If we all revealed our true selves in places like bars it would be a riot, or an orgy, or something.
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"MMOs, for people that like think chatting is like a skill or something, rotflol"
http://purepwnage.com
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"Far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees. To hear the softly spoken magic spell" Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
well me being a closet gamer ever since i started dating. i have decided that meeting people who i play games with would be detramental to my dating life. something im not willing to give up.
but i dont know i knew this guy in DAOC, who we accidentally met in real life, that was kind of interesting. he happened to be in the PC shop i was in buying something for his notebook, cus he was meeting with intel(intels main plant is like 10 miles away from me). and he had showed me pics of his custom built Notebook and i knew him from that. and that was interesting. it turns out that he went to my city every 6 months. so we would occasionally meet for coffee, and stuff, wow it seems i waste most my money in coffee shops come to think of it.
but the whole friends online thing takes less priority then IRL friends do to me(yes kiamde i would totally blow off reading your posts if my girlfriend called, same with murt, and anyone for that matter, but im trying to piss off kiamde at the moment). so i usually unless its a higher end unreal tournament online tournament ill give up online engagements for real life.
but i stopped intentionally playing MMORPG's with IRL friends a long time ago. just cus i usually break my character and get better stuff, and become overall significantly more powerful. and tehn they say wait up for us, and it causes unnecessary headaches.
98% of the teenage population does or has tried smoking pot. If you''re one of the 2% who hasn''t, copy & paste this in your signature.
i deicded to post a second time on the whole Bars, adn meeting people in those kind of places thing.
i think bars are great to meet someone in if your really into music, i know this cus my uncle owns a bar or two and bartends. if your into music you will go on certain nights to see certain bands, or certain types of bands, adn as such u probably have a common link with 50% of the people in the room.
it is proven that a lot of what links friends together is music, and you can tella lot about someone from there IPOD, or Mp3 player. and i mean a lot, you can almost fill out a match.com personal info sheet with whats available there. but you have to know how to interpret it.
PS on a somewhat related note didn't you guys ever hear the story of teh everquest girl??? well im assuming you hadnt, but like a year after EQ was intially released, a mother was playing it and convinced her daughter to start her acting/modeling career as the EQ event girl. because she perfectly matched the picture on the box.
the reason this is related is that is an example of someone going over the edge to connect their online and offline selves. which is sort of related.
98% of the teenage population does or has tried smoking pot. If you''re one of the 2% who hasn''t, copy & paste this in your signature.
i think mmorpg, but more generally, internet relationships are quite common nowadays. the reason is simple. In the old ages, we had relationships going on by letter all the time. Now we have emails/instant messaging/MMorpgs. This completely eliminate the physical aspect from the equation. You can't show your muscles or your graces in the internet...
so only thing that is left is your mind and soul. True, somebody can probably fake it all out, but others don't. And if you hit it right you could find yourself in a relationship not because you like her physical aspect (that will go away in some years AND will get old fast in anycase) but because you are of similar minds/interests.
That is actually what makes a relationship a succesful one. Not the physical attraction, that is gonna end pretty soon, but how compatible your personalities and interests are. This kind of approach kinda go straigth to it, so if a relationship develops, it will be with some solid bases on it.
I, of course, am one of this. My soon-to-be wife and me met in Ultima Online
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"
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"MMOs, for people that like think chatting is like a skill or something, rotflol"
http://purepwnage.com
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"Far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees. To hear the softly spoken magic spell" Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon