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It really hasn't played that much other than allowing me to spend time with friends who are at great distances that I cannot easily spend time with outside of video games. Overall I do know people who have met others through Warcraft and various other videos games and have became close friends.
For relationships wow really hasn't been a huge thing for me but a close friend was originally the one to get me into wow.
i met my husband in world of warcraft during BC . He was a lvl 10 priest looking for a leather worker and i happened to be one. He was new to the game and i invited him into my guilds vent and we started talked and just really hit it off. Over the course of a few months he finally asked me to fly out and visit him. I did and it was the best decision i have ever made. MMOs are a place to find friendship and even love because it allows you to get to know someone without having to worry about physical appearance. You get to know that person for who they truly are without the pressure of trying to impress that person face to face. But i would like to thank Blizzard for making this game because it has lead me to the love of my life and many other life long friends. And that is what its all about, making friends and having a good time.
World of warcraft is this big thing my boyfriend and i share, we have a lot of fun together, he is not just my best friend, my every day company, my love... he is also my arena partner :D So i got to say that our love for video games and WoW has been a very nice sharing activity in our relationship.
Got married in game a week before my husband and I got married IRL :) Even have a wedding video somewhere :)
My fiance and I met during BC in an SSC pug we were doing. I needed a vitality enchant and he was the only person in the raid with it. We chatted a lot on and off after that. He helped me farm a lot of my pets and achievements. He even did over 1 million damage in a day or two on blue dragonkin in Azshara to get me an azure whelping :) I think they had maybe 5-6k HP at the time, for reference! He kept asking me to join the guild he was an officer in for months, and when my guild fell apart, I joined. It was only a month or two after that we fell in love. A year and a half later we met, and got engaged shortly after. We've been living together ever since. Our wedding is set for December 15, 2013, which is exactly 4 years after we met for the first time IRL. :D
When I moved in with a friend, he went to work one day and I installed WoW on his computer, he came home and freaked out because "the plague" was on his pc :DThree years later we are engaged and both playing WoW, he is a mount collector with 161 mounts and I am a pet collector currently at 162! (he is also an achievement wh0re) we do many things together in game, he helps me farm new pets and I help him farm mounts :D Team work is a great thing for a relationship and WoW helps with that no matter how odd that sounds.He has farmed pets for me whilst I have been ill and brought me pets as gifts when I have been feeling down, I guess WoW is just another way for us to show each other we care in silly little ways, even to the point of paying 250k for a mount for him XD
Just a head's up, going to do one more day on this before I pick a winner =)
More importantly: I do not allow online gaming to affect my relationships.
Getting the girlfriend to play with me was a great move in so many ways. Most importantly it decreased the amount of stress I was causing by spending a lot of time away from her (with people she hadn't considered "friends", thus adding a jealousy factor). When she joined the game all that negativity disappeared; when she finished leveling up and started raiding with us she was ecstatic (and a heck of a DPSer too :) ). Obviously this doesn't work for all women, but you should be dating gamer girls anyway.
I met a very dear friend of mine 3 or so years ago when I was doing my usual route through Nagrand with a 70 twink I had fun playing I happened to fly over the arena there and so did she and I tried killing her since I saw red name. But I took a quick recap and saw she was a blood elf dk so I held myself back from killing a fellow hordie after that I decided to talk to her and say sorry for almost doing what I was going to do and we just hit it off. We talked from there on and till this day I'm her wow buddy. Makes me glad to have been a 70 twink around that time or I would've missed out on a great relationship.
Both me and my wife play wow together. It has been a wonderful bonding experience.
Without online gaming, I literally never would have met my beautiful, wonderful wife! Three years ago, my Blood Elf Warlock met a sassy-sweet female Orc Hunter in the Blood of the Scribe World of Warcraft guild on the Boulderfist server. We were both in the high-sixties / low-seventies levels at the time and both still learning a lot about the game. But little did I know this Orc was played by the woman who would become my future wife :^). Of all the online games, all servers and all the guilds, fate brought us together across time and space as she was in Canada, I in the U.S. and today we are happily married. Thank you, thank you, thank you online gaming for making it possible for me to meet the Love Of My Life!