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Did you ever have a relationship through an MMO?
Inzra
Member Posts: 679
With that I don't mean that you started playing together, but that you made a relationship through the game. That you had or have a relationship ingame, or that the game led you to meet someone in real life that you have/had a relationship with?
There's like an opinion that mmo's shouldn't be a place to flirt or meet someone, but i don't really see anything wrong with it, not even cybering if that's what people want to do (though that's not my cup of tea in an mmo anyway).
With WoW mmo's now have millions of players, so I don't think it would be unlikely? After all it's natural to meet people through shared interests.
Personally I haven't done either, just thought it would be fun to hear 
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Yes, met in real life and ended up living together for five years
Good times
Cool
Nice to know for me anyway, I've been playing for years, never met anyone. Then again i never really tried
But that's cool. What game did you play? Are you married? kids? Did you have an ingame marriage yet?
You left out the option "No, cartoon relationshp would suck and are the things that losers are made of."
Poll is rubbish.
MMORPG played in order played: Sims Online, WoW, CoX, EQ2, LinksRealm, LOTRO,TOR...and counting
I know of a couple that have met on a pirated Lineage Ii server. She was (unhappily) married and the two of them became head over heels in love
Next she devorces, runs from her ex-husband with their kid and she moves to an other country to get married. That was around 4 years ago and last I heard about them is that they're still together and very happy
For myself... I never made "contact" in MMORPGs for a relationship (I'm married for 10 years already), but I've had a couple of players hitting on me (and I don't mean in PvP
)
Anytime there is communication between 2 people , no matter the medium, a relationship developes.
Sure, its not better than face to face ..but I wager its more involved than some list Match.com spits out
Torrential: DAOC (Pendragon)
Awned: World of Warcraft (Lothar)
Torren: Warhammer Online (Praag)
Have you ever gotten mad upon finding out a female avatar was really played by a guy? (or vice versa if you are female)
lol..i've acted..nothing real..and when things got to serious i just blocked them or something..its a hard thing to do as it can be a grown man playing as a girl or ur about to start a relation ship with some girl that is 4 years younger then you or something
Have you ever gotten mad upon finding out a female avatar was really played by a guy? (or vice versa if you are female)
No not mad, but I've been surprised since they acted rather female Imo, but that's fair enough.
I play on a roleplay server now, so i will treat any female character as a girl/women, it doesn't matter what gender plays it really.
But to get a real relationship going I figure you have to have some OOC conversation.
No.
Yes.
I was having a rough time in college and was nearing the end of a bad 6 year long relationship. I needed a vacation so I went to visit a friend of mine from WoW. We enjoyed each others company and not long after that we moved in together. We've been married for almost 2 years now. Shes a fantastic woman and we've been really happy.
www.myspace.com/adam_is_alive
You can see us together there, just so you can see that all girls who play wow arent fat and ugly, or men.
I've formed both personal and professional relationships with people I met ingame or on a game forum for a game.
But if you're refering to meeting your "soul mate" or some such:
No, I did date a girl I met ingame when I lived in Virginia for a short time, but we did not like each other very much unless it was virtual it seemed. So we broke off both our RL and Ingame relationships.
I went on a date once with a girl from Lakeland when I lived in Clearwater that I met in EQ2... she was also very different then it turned out ingame.
However some of my best friends I have no (both online and RL) I met on game boards. I've been on vacation with a few of them, and now actually live with one who I met here on MMORPG.com.
I'd go as far to say about 50% of the people I associate with on a daily basis were contacts from game forums actually... including some of the ones I now work with.
- CaesarsGhost
Lead Gameplay and Gameworld Designer for a yet unnamed MMO Title.
"When people tell me designing a game is easy, I try to get them to design a board game. Most people don't last 5 minutes, the rest rarely last more then a day. The final few realize it's neither fun nor easy."
I have also met someone through an mmo. We started out for a couple years as great friends and then ended up going the real life route. Ended up moving 3 thousand miles for her. Came back a year later.
Don't regret it at all. Dating sucks. Moreso, dating someone who enjoys the same things as you is really tough to find.
grats adam, u and ur girlfriend are the first non fugly gamercouple ive ever seen.
I wish more people would try and be this kind to humanity ;<
I hard to tell. But I connected to a women. Only, she was the wife of other dude. And wen you are in a group of 6, with the wife, the dude, and the parent of teh dude. It could be a bad idea to try something. I even tried to avoid that women, only to found she again as a alter. She was like compatible, or a soul sister of me. But he already has a men in his life, so I have walked away. It was not serius... to me a "soul sister" is less than a love. But It could be wrong, for some people a "soul sister" / "soul brother" is more important than love, because is somethong Once In a Life. Anyway that woman was maybe my 2th "soul sister". so I am a incredible lucky bastard, or a incredible unlucky.
Well... I am a idiot stupid. :-(
This reminds me of a really funny and true story
I had a friend named Jack who was playing a female barbarian warrior in EQ. He would "roleplay" a female in the game a 100% of the time. You know with the *giggle* and /blush crap to top it all off. Anywho he grouped a lot with this one guy that for some reason fell head over heals in love with him thinking he was female. He did all kinds of shit for him in game. One day he told my friend he would come and visit him travelling all the way to Denmark from the US. Then Jack started to get a little pale in the face and had to come clean. The guy became so pissed he started sending him death threats through emails saying he would kill him if he ever had the chance. The guy completely quit the game from what i heard.
Fun stuff.
Anywho starting something in a game you plan on taking to real life is as good as any way to meet a partner. However it's not a real relationship until you meet in rl. It doesn't make you a loser by far. Unless you believe losers are the ones playing videogames period. When you interact with the other sex chances are you eventually will hit it off with someone.
I've made some really good friends but never anything beyond that. I don't think it's a good idea to do that when the chance of the person being a G.I.R.L is very very high.
Nope, never via an MMO.
I (technically) met a partner online a few years ago; she was a friend of a friend on Facebook and I thought she was stunning; that relationship lasted about 18 months.
Playing: EVE, Final Fantasy 13, Uncharted 2, Need for Speed: Shift
I had a lady friend on WOW that unf lead to a full blown out affair where she would visit me when my wife and i were seperated and made things worse. I regret the affair i had and still after 3 years my marriage is doing well and my wife has long forgiven me. Lead me to quit WOW.
I stick to playing the game and not on the social aspect of games as much anymore.
Played : WOW, LOTRO, COH/COV, EQ2, SWG, and WAR.
Playing EVE Online and AOC.
Wtg for SW:TOR and WOD
You don't see anyting wrong with it?
Consider this: you think you are with a decent guy/girl, you say nice tender things to him, maybe even cyber a bit... and at he other end... there are five friends reading (or hearing) you and laughing.
Big no-no.
Maybe only do this in Second Life, where the chances to find someone mature is higher.
I'm sad to say that after 9 years of MMO's this has finally happened to me. There are some difficulties that we likely wont be able to overcome so it's probably not going anywhere... but we really enjoy our time together in game and on vent.
I really want my next girlfriend to be an MMO player.... the last one was (she lasted 4 years) but I didnt meet her in game.
Also I have a very good friend that met his current fiance' in game.
PS- I've also made several very good RL friends in MMO's.... but I dont think any of this would ever have happened if it wasnt for voice comms.... all these close relationships developed on vent really.
Grymm
MMO addict in recovery!
EQ,SWG preCU,L2,EQ2,GW,CoH/CoV,V:SOH,
Aion,AoC,TR,WAR,EVE,BP,RIFT,WoW and others... no more!
Where is the poll option of just a simple "no," or "no and would not be interested in doing so?"
That answer is going to be more popular than you think, I would imagine.
President of The Marvelously Meowhead Fan Club
I guarantee, 100% that there are no stable, non-fucked up girls playing MMOs who are hot enough for me to want to date them.
MMOs just dont attract well-adjusted, attractive girls, they are far too busy having Real Lives. And no, that girl pictured on p1 is not attractive (and OMG the guy looks like a paedo), she is just less fat than the usual female internet denizens
Luckily I keep my MMO play a secret from everyone I know and interract with in real life and thus have a v. hot, non-gamer girlfriend.
Poll needs: Fuckno, hambeasts and psychos only.
So deep in the closet you can actually see Narnia.
Insecure much?
A friend is not him who provides support during your failures.A friend is the one that cheers you during your successes.
i've had 1 relationship ever that started through an mmo. we met a few times and eventually she moved in with me and after a couple of years it was over.
however i've met tons of girls on mmos who love to get on the webcam and put on shows for me though.
In theory a relationship can not develop fully in a mmo anyway. Wether we like it or not at some point the physical contact/presence is required.
Also the anonymity that medium offers ensures that people can hide whatever insecurities/problems have in an alternative world, problems that will become obvious when close contact begins.
Having friends in a MMO imo is possible. Intimate relationships though require personal contact and although a MMO envirroment can initiate them, they have to go beyond there anyway. And since most MMO are international, that is people play from many coountries, intimate relationships have a much higher difficulty factor to begin with.
A friend is not him who provides support during your failures.A friend is the one that cheers you during your successes.