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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: StarOfAfrica2 on June 09, 2006, 04:06:59 PM
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Now its worse. People are actually getting MARRIED after meeting in online games. Poor saps.
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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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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I bet she takes all the gold though.
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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.
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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?
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Didn't Ripsnort and Beet1e get married? They sure act like a married couple. :D
:lol Owch... :rofl
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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
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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Originally posted by Skuzzy
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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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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Originally posted by xrtoronto
Who's on top? ... I wonder ...:confused:
Oh I'd say beetle is catching in that case.
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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".
(http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/images/HC-GI139_Petrof_20060608174122.gif)
(http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/images/HC-GI138_Brown_20060608174035.gif)
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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.
J_A_B
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One of my co-workers left his wife for another woman he met playing Everquest.
It's a sickness.
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
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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Originally posted by Skuzzy
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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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.
J_A_B
Well of course you would say its no more dorky, you're one of them!
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Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
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".
[pictures of ugly people]
That ain't a woman, thats a man...man..
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Well, she is rather mannish, isnt she?
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2 of my friends from my EverQuest days got together. We were in the same guild and went around killing the bigged named bosses 5 or 6 nights a week.
She moved halfway across the country to move in with him after they had been together online for like 6-8 months. Last time I talked to them everything was 'happily ever after'. That was about 6mo ago, about 2yr after she moved in with him.
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"Well of course you would say its no more dorky, you're one of them!"
At least the games "they" play are profitable enough to not be a disappearing breed. How many new MMO flightsims are on the horizon again? That may be the basis for your contempt, the knowledge that something you dislike is far more popular and successful than an activity you enjoy.
I'll happily choose a form of entertainment my wife also enjoys over one she wants nothing to do with. As it is, currently I subscribe to *no* online game of any kind.
ChickenHawk's example is unfortunate, but no more unfortunate than a man who leaves his family for a woman he met anywhere else. I know a man who left his wife for a woman he met on an airplane--is that any better?
J_A_B
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I've had the hots for Dr. Gonzo for years...
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I admit it. I'm a RPG nerd. And I want to know one thing.
Where were those 29% of female MMORPGers who met and dated men they game with, back when I was playing???
And ...........
Are they all as mannish as the lady above? If so I'll just be thanking my guardian angel that I never met them after all.
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Didn't Ripsnort and Beet1e get married? They sure act like a married couple.
LMAO! :lol
It's true, I did propose to Ripsnort some time ago, but he is betrothed to Lemsko, his virtual fiancé over at AGW. I've met Lemsko at several Eurocons, and he goes all starry eyed whenever I mention Ripsnort! ;)
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The Mighty Thud must have hit level 50. Molecule Witch has an ulterior motive.
Honestly, some people will do ANYTHING to get some influence.
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I just can't believe Beet1e broke Lazs' heart like that. :(