Breakfast Topic: Have you met any WoW players in real life?
by Andrew Ross 
May 6th 2011 at 8:00AM
World of Warcraft is the largest MMO on the market and by far the most popular. It's nearly impossible to not strike up a conversation or make a few friends while playing WoW. After all, it is a game that revolves around taking 9 or 24 other people into a raid and defeating pixelated dragons with overbite problems. When you're in a raiding guild, you tend to grow close to the players you raid with daily. You may or may not know them on a first-name basis, but you know their voices when they come into Vent. You share stories about your toddler running through the house chasing the family dog with the remote-controlled car he got for Christmas.
What about taking it a step farther and meeting the people behind the avatar? I myself have only met two people in real life who I met first in WoW. I was meeting up with a group of friends after class for a drink, and one of the girls in our class brought her boyfriend. I had never met the guy in person prior to that night, but when he introduced himself, I recognized the voice almost instantly. He was my guild's gnome tank who was always cracking jokes. Little did I know, he not only lived in my area but was dating my classmate.
The other person was a girl I had been talking to for a number of months. She was looking at colleges and was going to be in my area to check out a local college. We met up for lunch and spent the afternoon touring the college I was already attending. I was scolded for doing the tour guides' job.
Have you ever met anybody in real life who you knew first in WoW? How did you know them in the game? Did you meet your significant other in Azeroth?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 6)
MattKrotzer May 6th 2011 8:06AM
I met my first guild leader several years ago when she was visiting her sister for Thanksgiving not far from me. A few years later, I met some guildmates who lived "near" where I was vacationing.
Both times were very cool, if a bit awkward. In person, you feel obligated to talk about things other than WoW, so it's a departure from the usual context.
Rezai May 6th 2011 8:07AM
No but I will when one of my guildies gets married in September (going to the wedding).
Al May 6th 2011 8:07AM
Got invited to meet up with my guild-leader after we realised the beach I was vacay'ing at was part of the next town over from hers. Bussed over there and had a great bbq with her family.
Koba May 6th 2011 8:08AM
met my girlfriend in stormwind a long time ago. After a couple of months it was time to meet and that was 4 years ago,
Now we are living in the same house happy and all, still playing and meeting up in orgrimmar now-a-days
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Demeternoth May 6th 2011 8:08AM
I've met quite a few of my guildies past and present in RL including one house-warming where we had 9 people. LF Rdps BoT!
shatto.a May 6th 2011 8:09AM
Me and a guildie were bitching about living in a podunk town in Maine. Turns out, it was the SAME podunk town, and he lived like a mile away from me.
Shreefa May 6th 2011 8:49AM
All of our Towns here in Maine are podunk... LUV it! =)
Pumabackup May 6th 2011 8:51AM
@ Shreefa
agreed!! ;-D
shatto.a May 6th 2011 9:12AM
Yeah, well, as much as I dig living in the woods, it's not very fun when you don't have a car.
HappyTreeDance May 6th 2011 7:17PM
I read this and started to respond that the same thing happened to two former guildies of mine, down to the podunk town in Maine part. And then I looked through a couple of your other posts and realized...that uh...I think you're one of those former guildies. ;)
Luciferous May 6th 2011 8:14AM
My eldest daughter got friendly with one of our guild members and they chatted in game for ages. Finaly he came up to stay one week and after a while, she moved down to where he lived in the south. Now they are married and expecting their first sprog :)
Natsumi May 6th 2011 9:32AM
I had to look up Sprog, never heard that word before. :p
For those of you that are like me and had no clue what a sprog was I'll link the Urban Dictionary definition :)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sprog
Shinae May 6th 2011 10:19AM
Congratulations, WoW grandaddy!
Omegan01 May 6th 2011 8:13AM
I've met four people, including my current GF. :D
Swifteye May 6th 2011 8:13AM
I haven't yet, but this topic is quite timely for me, as I shall very shortly!
My guild is having a get-together on Memorial Day weekend, so I'll be heading to my Guild Leader's house along with over a dozen guildies in just about three weeks here!
I'm really excited! I live several hundred miles from my Guild Leader, but coincidentally, he lives less than an hour away from my parents and where I grew up. And I always take my vacation from work and travel to see my folks around the end of May, since my birthday is on the 21st. So it was quite fortuitous that he decided to have a get-together in that area, and just so happened to pick Memorial Day as the best time!
Now whether or not I get booted from the guild after my guildies see how I act IRL when drunk remains to be seen.............
shancrabb May 6th 2011 8:14AM
Yep, as a matter of fact next weekend a few new guildies are coming to visit! And we are doing a large guild meet up in september. We have found that the best place to meet up with WoW friends is at an anime convention. Lots of people, lots of geeky stuff to do, lots of interesting things to see and talk about, lots of stuff for people who are interested in gaming and not anime.
Snuzzle May 6th 2011 8:15AM
My guild has had regular summer meetups for a couple years now, and I'm actually going to see a WoW friend next weekend because I may not be able to make the summer meet. Like Matt said, at first it can be weird because you don't have your usual "comfort zone" of conversation to talk about, but once you get past that you're good. In fact, at the summer meetups, we try to have a "no WOW talk" rule (that gets constantly broken).
Samutz May 6th 2011 8:15AM
I know friends and family that play WoW, but I've never met anyone that I met on WoW first.
I want to try to attend this year's WoW Insider meet up at BlizzCon though.
However, one of my sister's guildmates claims he lives in my town and knows who I am, but refuses to tell me who they are and it's really creepy.
Tri May 6th 2011 8:19AM
I haven't yet met any of my guildies (not counting the couple of them I knew beforehand "IRL"), but in fact, this summer we're planning a guild meet at my house, and I'm really looking forward to it! The guild os 4,5 years old, so it's about damn time we plan something like this :)