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Offline StarOfAfrica2

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Remember when online games just caused divorce?
« on: June 09, 2006, 04:06:59 PM »
Now its worse.  People are actually getting MARRIED after meeting in online games.  Poor saps.

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Several videogame publishers report that dozens of their players have tied the knot after meeting inside their games. Sometimes they take the leap after first staging an in-game wedding. Sony Online Entertainment, a unit of Sony Corp., says at least 20 couples have wed after meeting in its medieval fantasy games EverQuest and EverQuest 2. That includes the company's senior vice president of legal affairs, Andrew Zaffron, and his wife.

Nick Yee, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at Stanford University who studies online games, found in a survey earlier this year that 29% of women players and 8% of men said they had gone on to date someone they met in a game. He says the games are filled with scenarios that shed light on players' personalities. A risky raid on a dungeon, for example, can reveal whether someone is a team player. "These are trust-building exercises," he says. Players "are constantly having to make decisions like, 'Do I run out and save myself or help the others survive?' " Situations that reveal so much about someone's character are less common in the real world, he thinks.

Yankee Group, a Boston technology-research firm, estimates that MMOGs, which can be played simultaneously by thousands of people using the Internet, are played by 25 million to 30 million people world-wide.

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« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2006, 04:08:53 PM »
Cool, with a +5 sword of parting they can get divorced on the virtual world too. The only conflict will be who gets the pet orcs.
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« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2006, 04:09:32 PM »
I bet she takes all the gold though.
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« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2006, 04:14:53 PM »
We have the same thing happening here.

Didn't Ripsnort and Beet1e get married?  They sure act like a married couple.  :D

Could be a rumor.
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« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2006, 04:19:35 PM »
I know we are all flight-simmers here, but online RPGers are the dorks of the computer gaming world.  They kind of make me want to throw rotten tomatoes at them when I seem them (can't help it, its an evolutionary thing).

I wonder how the computer gaming heirarchy would go if they put us all in a room together?
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« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2006, 04:23:24 PM »
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Didn't Ripsnort and Beet1e get married?  They sure act like a married couple.  :D


:lol Owch... :rofl
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« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2006, 04:33:06 PM »
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I know we are all flight-simmers here, but online RPGers are the dorks of the computer gaming world.  They kind of make me want to throw rotten tomatoes at them when I seem them (can't help it, its an evolutionary thing).

I wonder how the computer gaming heirarchy would go if they put us all in a room together?


Be careful who you throw anything at, they may be armed.  

Do you really want to be put in a room with a guy who wears a bathrobe and calls it a "cloak", and guys that carry real swords under trench coats ala Highlander, because "you never know when a rift might open"?  Some prepare for the end of the world, some just for the end of civilization, some prepare for the day when fairys will pop out of mushrooms, unicorns will romp through the woods, and dragons will flame airplanes out of the sky.

Still want to be in that room?
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« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2006, 04:38:22 PM »
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Didn't Ripsnort and Beet1e get married?  They sure act like a married couple.


Who's on top? ... I wonder ...:confused:
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« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2006, 04:39:39 PM »
Well if they heavily perk the dragons, sure as long as I got to fly the plane I wanted to.....   :p
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« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2006, 04:40:23 PM »
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Who's on top? ... I wonder ...:confused:


Oh I'd say beetle is catching in that case.
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« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2006, 04:59:59 PM »
Here's a couple that was interviewed for the story.  They met in "City of Heros".  He is "Mighty Thud" and she is "Molecule Witch".  



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« Reply #11 on: June 09, 2006, 05:35:19 PM »
My best friend got married to a women he met over Everquest.  That's several years ago now.

RPG games are no more "dorky" than playing pretend fighter ace.

I consider meeting a potential spouse over a MMO game better than trying to pick someone up at a bar.


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« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2006, 06:28:29 PM »
One of my co-workers left his wife for another woman he met playing Everquest.

It's a sickness.
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« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2006, 06:37:07 PM »
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We have the same thing happening here.

Didn't Ripsnort and Beet1e get married?  They sure act like a married couple.  :D

Could be a rumor.


If they did then it is not a faithfull marriage because Beet seems to be having an affair with Curval at the moment. :)
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« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2006, 06:53:41 PM »
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We have the same thing happening here.

Didn't Ripsnort and Beet1e get married?  They sure act like a married couple.  :D

Could be a rumor.

:rofl
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