The EQ franchise always seem to 'get' women. When my wife started playing she spent the first day.. maybe 2 going around and collecting butterflies.. she loved it! I sat around and wondered just what I had done.
The EQ franchise always seem to 'get' women. When my wife started playing she spent the first day.. maybe 2 going around and collecting butterflies.. she loved it! I sat around and wondered just what I had done.
My wife did the same thing and I felt the same way. We would still be playing EQ2 together if not for the fact we could not find a guild that didnt have 20 year cliques. Everyone was helpful and gave us stuff and everyone wanted to powerlevel us but come end game everyone just had their set teams they played every night of the week lol
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I was going to say WoW - two of my ex wives I met on wow and 35 single, (well supposedly single) women I met and hung out with thanks to WoW - Love that game.
I've met way too many couples in Tera and World of Warcraft.
WoW is the type of game where you meet someone marry them and the whole family ends up playing the game.
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I encountered many couples in LoTRO when I was playing.
A lot of role-play heavy games attract women. Those and sci-fi conventions are the best place to meet women.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
Trinity games require cooperation, so there is a whole community / social wing to these MMO.
Trinity games, in general, tend to be PVE focused.
There are specific classes men and women like, in trinity games you have healer and support classes which many women prefer, and tank and DPS classes which many men prefer (of course, these are just generalizations, I for example differ, but they are true *in general* )
There are frequent AFK breaks in slow trinity games, which works well if you have children / pets / family..basically you can choose your own level of engagement in these games.
My husband and I play Guild Wars 2 together all the time. Great game for couples, and really anyone who likes to play with other people instead of against them.
The ex-wife and I played Daoc back in its prime as Keen Hib Stealthers on Perc... Haise and Yag. Use to gank the hell out of people lol. We were very effective sitting right next to each other, most reliable means of comms you had back then lol.
Obviously it did not save our marriage
I lost my girlfriend to eq. She left me for someone in game who had no life and always played. While I had to work and couldn't be on as much. Needless to say ruined my mmo and eq experience.
Fuck the world, for all its worth,Every inch of planet earth!
I've met way too many couples in Tera and World of Warcraft.
WoW is the type of game where you meet someone marry them and the whole family ends up playing the game.
My wife and I met in WoW. During our (almost) 6 years together, we've also played Rift, SWTOR, GW2, ESO, Wildstar, a couple others and now BDO. Along the way we've also picked up other gaming couples in our circle of friends. Gaming is so much better when you and your spouse can enjoy it together.
Surprised no one has mentioned FFXIV. I've been having a great time in that game questing with my girl, planning an entire wedding in-game, getting married and getting a chocobo that seats both of us. You even get wedding rings that can teleport you to your loved one from anywhere in the world. From all of the listed games FF seems like the most couple friendly one, and it's not even on the list.
We also enjoied NW together. Again a game that took time to think when making quests. Everything can be teamed. The player made quests were a great side distraction as well and again, everything could be teamed. GW2 was also a great side distraction for 2 years. Again, you could team every part of the game, even your main story quest. Of this list I would rate them for couples like this...
1. SWToR
2. GW2
3. NW
4. WS
5. WoW (heavy phasing)
6. ESO in last place (heavy phasing and forced solo quests)
I would actually put SWTOR like 3rd or 4th. Because actually depends on classes on how smooth can be the team cooperation. For example two Consulars or Inquisitors, one being tank and the other healer, cannot do their class story at the same time and get credit. They either have to split group, or run class stories twice.
Point is you can both help each other no matter your class. My wife and I are both Sages right now and I watch hers and she watches mine. If there is a combat section we are never alone. So yes I do see the same story twice but as a couple, we still get to do it together. Laugh about our choices and help each other when we are attacked in the story. Unlike ESO where you are forced to go play solo at many parts. Thats why its #1 in my books. You can play everything teamed.
Surprised no one has mentioned FFXIV. I've been having a great time in that game questing with my girl, planning an entire wedding in-game, getting married and getting a chocobo that seats both of us. You even get wedding rings that can teleport you to your loved one from anywhere in the world. From all of the listed games FF seems like the most couple friendly one, and it's not even on the list.
My wife and I left FF because of the forced solo quests that you NEED to get done to progress.
I can't believe only one other person has mentioned DAoC! My hubby played DAoC earlyish in our marriage. At the time I hated it. I picked up the first online FF, and he joined me. We had fun with that for a while, but it seemed like the bulk of players were kids. I finally joined him in DAoC, and we played together on Gawaine, & later Ywaine 5, for probably about 5 years. There was a lot of PVP.
It's not REALLY an MMO, but I would NOT suggest playing League of Legends together (unless you like one being frustrated at the other for being bad, which seems to be most cases of couples playing that I've seen)... hahaha
it can work just don't duo adc+support because playstyles will certainly clash there if they're different
i fought with my husband a lot when we were doing that, then we switched to him top and me jungle and there was a lot less fighting :proud:
I was at a wedding in SWG when a Bounty Hunter showed up and killed the groom.
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I realize that it's not an MMORPG, but my wife really enjoys playing Diablo 3 with me. We play it on console, but it's one that's been easy for her to pick up and learn (she has never been a big gamer).
I think any game with a working marriage system, which some MMO games has introduced, is great for couples. Like I forgot the name of this one game but their new marriage system gives couples powerful rings and allow the partner to quickly come in the other's aid
EQ2 with it s mercs , makes it so you basically have a group. Can do literally everything, except a few dungeons that require certain mechanics. It s fun to try and finish them anyways.
My wife had never even played a computer game before she met me back in 2008. She had only played PSX games like Tekken and FF8. She actually knew what Final Fantasy was and it was impressive to say the least.. but anyway.. I introduced her to WOW shortly after we met and today she is a avid gamer and even does reviews. (We got invited to E3 last year because of her)
She no longer plays wow tbh she wasn't that into it from the start her toon is still only like level 50ish
But she was more on the "I like to walk around in this fantasy world it's amazing" side than the "OH SHIT NEW LEWTZ DROPPED GET GOOD GEAR NEWBZ LF 5Million GEAR SCORE FOR EPIC RAID" side. She tries to compete a little more than before but she is still super recreational.
Recently she started playing swtor with me, she made a smuggler, ("Oh she's cuuute.") again she isn't that into the actual game as much but more into the environment (really babe swtor has no real environment) and story..I caught her playing one night when I got home from work, and I was like "What? You are playing swtor...ALONE?" she was like "YEA I NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO MY SHIP."
I was dead with laughter. MMOs are good for your relationship trust me.
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I guess the sarcasm wasnt apparent enough.
I was going to say WoW - two of my ex wives I met on wow and 35 single, (well supposedly single) women I met and hung out with thanks to WoW - Love that game.
WoW is the type of game where you meet someone marry them and the whole family ends up playing the game.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
A lot of role-play heavy games attract women. Those and sci-fi conventions are the best place to meet women.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
Well, couple reasons for that.
Trinity games require cooperation, so there is a whole community / social wing to these MMO.
Trinity games, in general, tend to be PVE focused.
There are specific classes men and women like, in trinity games you have healer and support classes which many women prefer, and tank and DPS classes which many men prefer (of course, these are just generalizations, I for example differ, but they are true *in general* )
There are frequent AFK breaks in slow trinity games, which works well if you have children / pets / family..basically you can choose your own level of engagement in these games.
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My wife and I met in WoW. During our (almost) 6 years together, we've also played Rift, SWTOR, GW2, ESO, Wildstar, a couple others and now BDO. Along the way we've also picked up other gaming couples in our circle of friends. Gaming is so much better when you and your spouse can enjoy it together.
My wife and I left FF because of the forced solo quests that you NEED to get done to progress.
i fought with my husband a lot when we were doing that, then we switched to him top and me jungle and there was a lot less fighting :proud:
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
She no longer plays wow tbh she wasn't that into it from the start her toon is still only like level 50ish
But she was more on the "I like to walk around in this fantasy world it's amazing" side than the "OH SHIT NEW LEWTZ DROPPED GET GOOD GEAR NEWBZ LF 5Million GEAR SCORE FOR EPIC RAID" side. She tries to compete a little more than before but she is still super recreational.
Recently she started playing swtor with me, she made a smuggler, ("Oh she's cuuute.") again she isn't that into the actual game as much but more into the environment (really babe swtor has no real environment) and story..I caught her playing one night when I got home from work, and I was like "What? You are playing swtor...ALONE?" she was like "YEA I NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO MY SHIP."
I was dead with laughter. MMOs are good for your relationship trust me.
"The Society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools."
Currently: Games Audio Engineer, you didn't hear what I heard, you heard what I wanted you to hear.