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MMO friends are the best friends in the whole world
Marcelino
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Ok i might be a bit drunk but everything i said in the title i mean 
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i met my best mate in an MMO and hes the best mate in the whole world 10 years on. Anyone else got any experiences of meeting best mates in mmo's??? 
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Never in an MMO - if I don't see people face-to-face they aren't ever going to be a real friend. A fleeting acquaintance at best. However, I played tabletop RPGs with several people who are still my best friends 30+ years on.
Some are some aren't. Although with real life friends they tend to move away to far away places. My friends are scattered across the world now, and I am moving to China. All but two of my friends now live within a one hour drive from me, two live in Germany, the others on opposite sides of the country. If you play games together, you can manage to keep in touch and stay friends.
Sent me an email if you want me to mail you some pizza rolls.
Not in my experience. Many times I meet someone we play together for like 1 year and then all of a sudden you never see them again.
I met a person on EQ1 we played for 2 years. then they just stopped logging in. When I went to EQ2 I was wandering around and saw her name over a character. I went up to her and she ignored me. Then I realized she was an NPC with the same name as my friend in EQ1.
Sad really.
Hell no. I've never met one of my friends in an MMO. Most MMO players are selfish jerks. Probably why you have to be drunk to become friends with one of them.
My best friend, and oldest friend, is a 23 year old friend now. I mean, we've been friends for 23 years. Others are 20 years, and 15 years. Actually, I don't have a friend that is less than that now. We've been friends that long. Other friends are since we were kids. None of them came from MMORPGs, although we do enjoy MMORPGs together.
Yes definitelly, I met people in UO, which then met outside of the game and we baceme best mates for the past 14 years now, we all know eachother's famillies, and celebrate many festivities all together. Heck some of the people I met in UO live in europe and we crossed oceans met in RL too and are friends since as well.
Of cource that was in a time when MMORPG's were more than just a game to get gear and raise a character, they were so powerfull in their social areas which did permit people to establish and extend friendhsips beyond the game itself.
But if it were not for those early MMORPG's these friendships would not have existed.
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I don't see why visibility is a problem. I made many good friends. Or rather I made other people good friends. People in my guilds/clans/empires/corporations all made lots of friends. Leaders don't make friends. Mustn't play favorites.
Can't say that I've made any "best friends" from an MMO, but there are definitely some good pals, only one of whom I've met IRL (found out while playing Darkfall he lived pretty close to me). There are quite a few I still keep in contact with via facebook. Then there are the few I call a few times a year to catch up on shit.
One of those I talk to on a mildly regular basis actually sent me a care package when my daughter was born. I live in Florida, he lives in Cali (or did at the time), so I thought that was pretty cool.
Side Note: I worked with a girl who ended up marrying a dude she played EQ with - they're still married and have two cool little kids.
Oldschool games had way more marriages/relationships/funerals and crap. Even back with MUDs.
I've definitely made a couple of solid friends from MMOs, one in particular (Eve Online). It really depends on your experiences in the game, if you don't happen to find someone that you really get along with then of course you won't really make any good friends from it.
Where's the any key?
I've been gaming with the same set of guildies for almost 10 years. We all know everything about one another. Great friends
I've meet some great people in my last mmorpg I played (on hiatus atm since 06.11) in Lotro.
Actually only thing that kept me playing for last few months I played , cause Lotro was spiraling downwards.
They even did some meeting in RL, but I could not make it due to RL things and those folks were all from diffrent coutnries - so it did not last after I left (could not stand direction Lotro was / is heading).
Apart fo that - no my RL friends are not related to mmo or gaming at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op-4iqRCDV4
Couldn't help it.
Met some mates in swg about 5 years ago, we been good friends ever since and got our own vent server now and play most our games together. mmo friends are the best!
Yea, what I concider one of my best friends we met through gaming (MMO) but what has cemented the friendship is our things in common outside the mmo world. We both served in the military, we even went to the same place for basic training. I was a scout, he was a D.A.T. ( dumb ass tanker) Were pretty much joined at the hip, I wont play a game without him. Even when where sick of playing well just hangout in ts and bs about our day. I think he might know more about me than my girlfriend.:/
Yeah, P&P friends beat MMO friends every time.
You have to remember something very important which destroys this entire thread...
For every person that has posted here saying "Never" or "I would never" (and many, many more people), there are two people who found their wife/husbands on MMORPG's.
It's actually extremely common now-a-days to find a couple in a MMORPG who are married IRL because they met [years] ago in a MMORPG.
Although I've never met anyone I'd ever marry from a MMORPG (I met her on myspace, hahahaha) there WERE plenty of girls I would have had short-term sexy IRL relationships with :P The type of girls I meet on MMORPG's seem a tad bit too...uh....creepy? to have long-term relationships with Idk. It's just weird when half are drug addicted sluts and the other half are slutty wiccans. I guess my trolling in chat always attracted those types, lol. Oh, and IRL I attrac tthose too wtf? LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!! *cries*
I say that because "Back then" I didn't really care for friends, but wanted a "best friend" or what I like to call a breast friend (Wife). Lame jokes that only seek to embarass myself aside... just like how all the MMO girls I meet online creep me out, all the MMO guys I meet online are extreme douchebags or creepy weirdos as well.
Just like how all the girls in MMO's are either young creepy sluts or desperate lonely housewives, all the guys are either young stupid douchebags or typical boring husbands. Befriending someone is next to impossible for me, due to my ridiculously high standards for friendship. Oh, and also bc I'm one of those young stupid douchebag typical creepy husbands, lol.
When I was a teen, all of my best friends and girlfriends of/for several years were online (met through Ultima Online or RP AOL chatrooms, since that was brand new fresh out of the internet fire). They would either disappear forever or backstab me constantly. Just not very good friends at all, but of course we were all teenagers full of stupidity and drama, so that might have been why.
I have made friends with a few ppl in MMO's who I enjoy talking to, but before the day/week is over I typically find that they are either too young, misguided/overly apethetic, or once again... the stereotype of what a young adult male/female is suppose to be. It's not a conincidence 99% of young people are naive, insecure, self-centered douchebags. All the older people just don't have time for internet friends.
It's not in game playing, but game DEVELOPMENT that I find real friends. I consider my best online friend the only other person I ever really felt understood my view on video games. He is a disabled veteran (and a game developer like me), and we exchange lengthy emails about game design, MMORPG's, etc. Although we only did that for a few weeks as I haven't heard from him since. Other than that, all of my best friends are my blood family. I spend the majority of my gaming time playing with my brother and nephew online, and the rest of my family/wife I hang out with IRL. Between graduate school, game development, I have very little time to video game. (Lies-- I game 24/7 all day every day). Okay, well...I just don't enjoy being slowed down by anyone else when playing without my family.
Met a friend in L2 and since then staying in touch over instant mesages and various online games for 6 years and still counting
so yeah its pretty much possible to meed good friends over internet.
What you were looking for.
What you found.
Corelation?
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
No, more like coincidence. Typically the very talkative, trollish MMORPG gamer females are creepy (and creepy means slutty; always!) lol.
I was really just joking mostly, as I've met alot of people online and they arent all creeps, a lot are normal. I found a few girls who were less creepy and more along the lines of perfect matches for a MMO nerd. (It's rare to find a girl who loves Highlander, lol) but they were always unhappily married, and that is creepy in itself :P Maybe I'm just easily creeped out? No...bc that would mean MMO girls are all slutty wiccans or potheads, lol...
I was always looking for talkative, social, non-creepy people and found very talkative, EXTREMELY creepy girls. Males are typically obnoxious, fowl mouthed, and trollish when vocal. The vocal females are less trollish and ugly, but far more creepy!
I actually am in the field of psychology, and just based on my experience, I'm sortof interested in the correlation between talkative people (or trolls) and creepy-factor IRL. I am curious if trolls online look like trolls IRL, or if they are trolls IRL too or the exact opposite.
I also am in the field of psychology because I feel as though I am oblivious to some things that others are more obvious of. I often find myself missing what others stereotype quickly. Because of this, my looks, and my friendly/talkative personality I attracted a lot of creepy girls, because I lack the (common sense?) to know they're messed up or creepy. Stupid optimistic view of life >.<
Of course, my theory is that it isn't me, it isn't them, it isn't because of anything. Instead, all girls have emotional problems and are freaking crazy psycho witches, but I am preeeeeeeeeetty sure that's not true. Just the ones I've met in my life
All of them :P The ones IRL are kriz-azy, and hte ones online just APPEAR normal but would be psycho IRL. You just don't know it yet!
I haven't personnaly met any great friends in an MMO that transfered to R/L, however when I was in a guild in Asherons Call there were a few members that met in game and got married in R/L.
One instance I will relate though. When I mentioned in guild chat that I wan't going to be able to play on a particular weekend because I was involved in a charity race for juvinelle diabetes (used to race karts) one of the guild members gave me my largest donation. Great person but he lived 3,000 miles away so I couldn't just go meet him or I would have thanked him in person.