Breakfast Topic: WoW Buddies To Real Life Friends
by David Nelson 
Oct 17th 2006 at 8:00AM
I have a couple of real life friends who I have dragged into the World of Warcraft, but lately it seems like I am turning more WoW friends into real life friends. I didn't intentionally set out to meet a bunch people in WoW and turn them into actual meet-me-at-the-bar-for-the-game kind of friends, but it just sort of worked out that way.Last summer a bunch of guildies were getting together to go to Ozzfest, and even though Ozzie isn't exactly my cup of tea, I tagged along and had a really good time. In fact, we had such a good time that a group of us regularly get together for marathon beer and XBox sessions. This past Sunday me and some of my WoW guildies went to see the Lions beat the Bills over at Ford Field (no Lions jokes please, we suffer enough). I have had a few other real life meetings with other WoW friends as well, and almost all the time we get along great. I would never have met any of these people if it weren't for WoW.
Do any of you guys ever meet anyone you know from WoW outside of the game? Does your guild have occasional get togethers?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Cyber-Blade Oct 17th 2006 9:06AM
I have met a girl ingame. We met cuz i had problems with a quest in Feralas and then i asked some random ppl for help and she accepted. Then we talked after and then our contact almost ended untill she needed help to make an item for her gf. And since im a LW'er i could help her. After that we have become great friends and right now im trying to get enough money to go and visit her.
Bubblewrap Oct 17th 2006 6:06PM
Not from WoW, a guild from europe would be spread over all countries that would just be too expensive, but i´ve been in a CoD clan for example and we regularly organized LAN party´s and paintball meetings, that was loads of fun!
Archmage_lod Oct 17th 2006 9:25AM
All my guildies are in other states. I have lots of real-life friends that play, even my girlfriend plays, but no one from inside the game has ever asked me to hang out.
Magnarussa Oct 17th 2006 9:29AM
Just recently I exchanged emails with one of my closest ingame friends. Though he lives in Indiana and I live in NY, we probably won't be doing any face-to-face meeting anytime soon. I think we have a great friendship. He has helped me a countless number of times in WoW and I just love chatting with him.
Here's to friendship! /cheer
Dyyne Oct 17th 2006 9:49AM
Me and my WoW guild buddies, although we've never had a true chance to meet, we're all friends on MySpace, know all od our real names and addresses, and when my laptop crashed one of my guildies even sent me a copy of Windows he had lying around through the MAIL for me, just so i could get back on WoW =)
Hory Oct 17th 2006 10:21AM
Me and my wife have been playing since the beginning of the game. I met a guy named Stormheart at my lower levels. We quested for awhile and eventually built a large guild. A few of his friends lived in Virginia where I am and we hooked up to go eat at Golden Coral.
We are all guild leaders now of Dark Solace on Skullcrusher and very good RL friends. For my wife's birthday (in 3 days) one of the guys has set it up for all of us a trip to Richmond, Va. to a big comedy club.
The game may be addicting... but it's fun and noone could ever say it's anti-social or leads to anti-social behavior. :)
Faille Oct 17th 2006 10:48AM
My guild is friends & family to start with, so hanging with them is always fun. But we're on the opposite coast, so it takes a trip back home to hook up. And some of the guildies are from past games, so haven't connected in RL.
But this past summer, we managed to combine our trip back home with some of the gamer guildies doing a road trip, and all met up over the July long weekend. We had about 18 folks for a LAN party, and then probably double that for a BBQ, and it was a blast. Wonderful to meet all those friends-of-friends, and to match up RL faces with character names. Nothing like WoW to make instant conversation!
Mordiceius Oct 17th 2006 10:50AM
Every six months or so my guild, SG - Bleeding Hollow Horde, will have get togethers with a bunch of guildies. We've done it in Toronto, Canada, Baltimore and next one is Las Vegas. When you are in a raiding guild and spend 30+ hours a week with these guys, it is nice to meet and hang out face to face.
Beldarian Oct 17th 2006 11:29AM
Me and my bf meet on wow. We were both newbs starting out,in the same guild. So we quested alot together. We wound up talking alot getting to know each other. Found out we lived only 4 hours away. and now over 17 months later, we now live together and still play wow together.
And we all laugh when they say you'll find that special someone doing the things you like to do. But never again will i tease someone for internet dating. I found mine on a game.
Enola Oct 17th 2006 1:19PM
I play with several real life friends already (they got me into the game), and it's actually a great way to keep in touch with, and spend time with, friends of mine who've moved too far away. I also made a trip to Sacremento recently to meet several friends I'd made through the game and we had an absolute blast. They even took us to wine country for some wine tastings. =)
I also work with lots of WoWers and discussions of last night's raid are a given at any of our break tables. I love my job! :D
Ginnie Griffin Oct 17th 2006 3:01PM
My boyfriend and I play WoW together. We live in Georgia and this year we went up to Virginia to meet our Guild Leader and a few other guildies. We had so much fun. This summer two other guildies made a trip from TN to come and spend time with us. I have to say I enjoy my guild that much more because of it and I think we have the most wonderful guild leader EVER! The next all guild get together is going to be a wedding between our two guildies from TN.
Aaron Oct 17th 2006 3:21PM
My Wife and I met in DAoC.
Gifflen Oct 18th 2006 8:17AM
I started playing wow with a real life friend of mine. One day when we were questing we met up with anouth couple guys and ended up getting along rather well. A couple of months pass and we all ended up maryland hanging out and getting drunk. Whats a beer if its not with a guildy? Well my friend is now dating our guildmates sister and a bunch of us are talking about getting a house together. It'll be like one really bad friends episode I can just see it.
jackjack! Oct 18th 2006 1:17AM
I have meet about 20 of my fellow guildie. Since most of them live in denver, we get together and get shit faced and talk about wow. Nothing better then meeting in game friends in real life.
FOR3MAN Oct 17th 2006 10:42PM
Hey I was at that game too, Lions season ticket holder. What server do you play on maybe I can track you down and share the pain of being a Lion's fan lol
Emisaria Oct 18th 2006 6:54AM
I had the same as cyberblade. WoW was sometimes a link between me and the love of my life.
Tarquin Oct 19th 2006 2:13AM
My server, Feathermoon, does a summer meetup every year in the San Francisco Bay Area which I helped organize. In two meets and several other trips to the northwest, I've met over fifty people - most of whom live either in the SF BA or Seattle-Tacoma, but some of whom have come to visit from SoCal, the Midwest, the East Coast, and even the frozen northern wastes of Canada. By and large, some exceptionally cool and interesting people.
Now I'm moving up to Seattle to get a house with four other Feathermooners, two of whom met ingame and are now engaged to be married.
Ceil Oct 18th 2006 2:01PM
My finacee and I met playing WoW - he's moving from Texas up here to Washington state in less then a month. We're getting married in a year or so. We're also probably going to be getting a house with three friends we all met through WoW.
This is on top of the real life WoW Meets that our server has put together (two now, it's annual!) and varies mini-Meets all over the country.
I think I realized how great WoW friends could be when I was looking at spending another set of holidays alone, since my family lives 2700 miles away, and one of my guildies invited me to Thanksgiving and Christmas as his house, with his extended family and roomies. It meant the world to me. These are friends (and more) that I think I'll have for life.
The guy who posted above me is one of those people.