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Clever_Glove
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Are the friendships we make in a MMORPG meaningless?
The people we meant on-line are often faceless and voiceless how well can we know them? Are the friends you make in on-line have any meaning to you? Are on-line friends and real world friends different?
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I think it goes both ways. Having played online games for many years now I've made many friends. Some have evolved to further degrees of friendship than others. Some have even evolved into RL friends. Others have been completely forgotten as one of the other of us moved on to a new game. I'm getting married in May, several people who I originally met in online games will be attending. Basically it all depends on the individual relationship when talking about meaningfulness. There have been people in games who were great friends, while in that game, once we went to other games contact gradually dropped off until we just didn't talk anymore. Others have become good enough friends to stick together through 4 or 5 games in a row now.
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I don't really make friends in MMORPGs. Mainly because I don't play as often as I used to. I did have some friends in UO with whom I played everytime I was on but we all moved on to bigger and better things.
I do, however, have some real life friends who I've met on various chats though.
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I think its a friendship that can be taken as far as the virtual world will allow. I often hang out on the TS server to just talk to people in our Community. There are people from all over the world in our Community and I know that the chances of meeting them are very slim. It's the interaction with people you have come to know over time that creates a real friendship.
I recently moved from my home in Ca to Fl and left many "real life" friends behind. We still communicate and talk while playing the same games together. Though initially we met in person and became friends, we maintain our friendship via the internet, so why couldn't a person make "new" friends via the internet ? My answer to the question posed is: Yes you can make some very good friends via the virtual world.
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I think that mmorpg/game friendship are able to be the same as RL ones. I myself already met several ppl, which live in my region on LANs or just personal. Also, I have online friends all over the world and would I have those friendships without internet..? Guess not since Im not much into being a penpall ^^;
I also agree that there are several layers of relation in the virtual world. This is also IRL. I used to hang out with ppl I now barely speak anymore.