Jurie sends in a pointer to MMO Couples, a site dedicated to dating and romance in massively multiplayer universes. The focus is on WoW (of course), and it's written by a young Dutch lady who met her Austrian Night Elf online... and moved to Vienna to live with him. She offers up a how-to on handling your online crushings of the romantic kind:
If you have a crush on someone in your MMOG and it looks like it is mutual, you might come to a point that you very much like to meet each other in the real world. In the three years that I have been playing, I have met people who took that step but ended up being disappointed or even hurt. In the end, you can never know if the online chemistry is also there when you meet face to face.
There are ways to decrease that chance. Here are a few tips that I think will help you prepare for meeting the person behind the char.
(Thanks Jurie!)
Somehow related: type "World of Warcraft" into Google and see the ads...
Posted by: Stefan | April 08, 2008 at 15:26
My advice; Avoid any girl that plays an MMORPG.
Uh, present company excluded...
Posted by: Josh | April 09, 2008 at 00:56
This has "tranny surprise" written all over it.
Posted by: Toms | April 09, 2008 at 02:20
LOL!
No *faith*!
My guild is *stuffed full* of lovely ladies. Unluckily for you lot, they're all taken (being lovely ladies n' all).
Personally I think WoW's jumped the shark. It's so mainstream in the US now, anyone and everyone is playing. Bye bye stereotypes.
Posted by: Alice | April 09, 2008 at 09:05
I put on my robe and my wizard's hat...
Posted by: Mr Tom | April 09, 2008 at 18:03
Rofl, good call Mr Tom.
"Toms" is alluding to a point that Alice has unwittingly played into. The "lovely ladies" that play this game are often, if not always, going to be attached. This is simply due to having attracted the attention of handsome, sociable guys offline.
Generally speaking, the stereotypes are still being observed. While games as a whole are certainly gaining widespread acceptance, there's still a long way to go before we actually find the online world on an equal footing with the offline one.
But progress is a good thing!
Posted by: Daikyu | April 13, 2008 at 21:54