Breakfast Topic: Love Is In the Air
by David Nelson 
Nov 25th 2006 at 8:00AM
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I saw this frontpage story on WoW.com. It tells the story of two folks who met in Warcraft and are now married. No, not in the game. In real life. I can think of a time when I would have mocked the story and ridiculed meeting someone in such a manner, but now, I think it is pretty great. It is so hard once you get out of college and into the real world...jobs, working long hours and hardly having time to feed your cat much less go on the prowl for a new special someone. If I was a single guy, and I met someone cool in WoW, I don't think I would hesitate meeting them at Starbucks after the raid.
What about you guys? Have you ever met someone you were interested in while playing WoW? Would you arrange a date? Or is it still too weird?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Danny Nov 25th 2006 8:38AM
This is lame.
Obsidian Nov 25th 2006 8:41AM
Yeah, I don't feel it's so weird anymore. If truth be told, I think it would be cool if Blizzard would set their servers to more specific zones instead of just East coast, Midwest, West coast, etc (for NA anyways).
My friends and I have met a lot of cool people on WoW, but most of them are just too far away for us to really get together. One of my friends would probably be dating with a girl we met on WoW if it wasn't for the fact that she's in Ontario and we're in Maryland.
Damoskinos Nov 25th 2006 10:08AM
I think the real question is how many ladies actually play WoW? (yes, i know that women/girls actually play the game...i'm not trying to be sexist here)
I'm not sure what kicks guys get from impersonating women in a virtual world, but my guess is that the actual number of females playing WoW makes anything like this type of love story pretty unlikely with any sort of real frequency.
I mean, i've been in groups where multiple female characters are flirting with other people (that I know are guys irl) in the group and talking rather salaciously in-game, then when I sign into vent, "Jasmine" is actually a 40 y.o. male software engineer. Wierd, plus is makes spotting real women on WoW that much harder. My automatic assumption nowadays for most female toons is that they're really males.
I dunno, am I in the minority in encountering this?
White Rabbit Nov 25th 2006 10:54AM
Yea, what Damoskinos
I would LOVE to meet a girl who's cool and plays World of Warcraft, but the uncertainty of whether its actually a girl or not is too strong for me to do any serious flirting
if I ever think about it, I think about THIS article on somethingawful.com http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=3635
Vaelin Nov 25th 2006 11:38AM
If she was attractive, then I'd certainly jump on the opportunity. Your average girl would roll her eyes if you mentioned you played WoW. Soon, you're sliding down the slippery slope to total whippage until suddenly you've cancelled your account and find yourself in places like Bath and Body Works.
Much better to land a gaming hottie that shares your interests and gets just as excited about phat lewt as you do.
Arras Nov 25th 2006 12:36PM
Cute story, nice that two people found each other and share a similar interest/hobby.
anyone notice the timing of their courtship?
Livin' in sin!
do the math ;)
Chris Nov 25th 2006 12:38PM
"I think the real question is how many ladies actually play WoW?"
There are many girls in my guild. Probably 25%+. Most of them are 60, and very active in the raids.
Luffens Nov 25th 2006 12:58PM
What a great story :'D
And guys, there are some girls. I'm one of them
I've got 2 60s and play them pretty well. And I do have a life. :P
My boyfriend also plays WoW, but we didn't meet there. We actually met through his friend, who I met online. And that was 2 years ago. We're both still happy with the relationship. So I'd say that stories like these definitely are possible.
Unfortunately, like many of you have said, it's hard to tell guys from girls by their toons. Most guys assume I'm a guy anyway- only because I'm a 60 in good equipment.
That's all I have to say.
White Rabbit Nov 25th 2006 1:15PM
@ Luffens
stopped reading when you said you had a boyfriend
j/k ;)
Hugh Nov 25th 2006 1:39PM
Last time I heard, the percentage of women in WoW overall was 16% - my impression is that's even higher on roleplaying servers and lower on PvP servers.
Michael Nov 25th 2006 1:39PM
To answer the question:
#Quote# What about you guys? Have you ever met someone you were interested in while playing WoW? Would you arrange a date? Or is it still too weird? #quote#
Yes absolutely. There are a couple of women in my guild, they are both fun to group with, and great players.
One in particular I would love to get to know better, she has a great voice (we use vent) and I have seen a picture of her from her blog.
Unfortunately we live in different areas of the country and travel is not possible right now.
Ahh well!!
(If you are reading this Hi "T")
Joshua Ochs Nov 25th 2006 2:16PM
Actually, one of my friends who is similarly a great guy - just a bit on the shy side - met his girlfriend on WoW. I think it's great.
After all, why is meeting someone in a game - where you've already shown *some* shared interests - worse than meeting someone in a bar, where all you've shown is an attraction to their looks and drinking?
Chris Jeffery Nov 25th 2006 2:50PM
I didn't meet my girlfriend through WoW, but I did meet her through a forum that was discussing comic book-to-movie projects, and we now play WoW together. We've had and extremely happy relationship of about 1 1/2 years, and I have never been happier in my life.
And honestly, while every person out there is potentially a creepy 40 year old man, all it takes is seeing that person on a webcam to destroy that fear. People mock relationships that start on the internet, and always will, but in the end I'm the one laughing, because I have a beautiful girlfriend who shares my interests, and we're extremely happy.
uncaringbear Nov 25th 2006 3:19PM
It's easy to be cynical about this topic ("all those chicks are really dudes", "only weirdos would even think about hitching up after meeting in WoW"), but relationships that have started online is hardly new. While the ratio of female players in WoW is probably lower than what we'd like to think, there are still plenty of them committing a lot of time to WoW. Our guild, which is on an RP server, has many active female players, and thanks to Vent, there's little ambiguity about which toons are which gender. The kicker is that two of our ex-guild members are now engaged to be married, and they both live on opposite ends of the planet!
Krianna Nov 25th 2006 4:37PM
On behalf of many of the female players-- for the love of Light, don't flirt with me! Just because it happens to come up in conversation that I'm female it doesn't mean that I'm interested. It's especially bad on an RP server when there are suddenly female chars flirting with mine.
I got together with my boyfriend because he plays WoW-- the lovely graphics gave me an excuse to hang around him, and him helping me with my character did the same.
Geek girls are usually about as shy as geek guys, and most of us wouldn't post a picture because of the SOBs that will ALWAYS make rude comments-- most of us realize they're just creeps, but it hurts anyways.
The fun part is that my BF plays mainly female chars-- we RP a lot, and folks always guess wrong on which of us is female. (Sadly, my very-male-thank-you guy fits the role of "sounding" like a girl better than I do.)
Probby Jake Nov 25th 2006 5:14PM
Love is... for each person it's different, so it only sometimes can be as air. Maybe for some pepople it's less essentially.
Alysse Nov 25th 2006 5:33PM
I'm a chick and play WoW and I don't find the whole things too weird. I think it's just another way of meeting people... to a degree. Just as technology has improved for online dating, the chances of this happening wasn't as though it was NEVER gonna happen.
Good luck to the happy couple!!
~Alysse
PM Nov 25th 2006 7:37PM
A female friend of mine in RL(also in my guild), met her current boyfriend playing. He comes into town a lot and he's a really good guy.
I was really put off when I heard about how they met, but after hanging out with him I could tell right away he was good people.
I always thought stuff like this turns out bad, but this time I guess it worked!
monkeyhouse Nov 25th 2006 8:07PM
my girlfriend and i play (we are 36 and 33) and we have met and teamed up with some other couples on the server when we need more help with a quest or something. fun to play as 2. better than sitting watching tv all night.
never had any desire to meet up with anyone outside the game but i have met a number of people in my normal life who play as well - the game is always secondary. life should always be first.
mort Nov 26th 2006 1:07AM
actually
I dated a girl who played wow...I flew halfway across the US to be with her... we almost got engaged, but then she turned psychotic...and she was hot too, it was such a letdown (seriously).
stuff like this...eh, not taht uncommon