Honestly, Two of my best friends and my fiancee have come from World of Warcraft! Obviously, I've met my fiancee, but my two friends Z and Qube, have been loyal and awesome from the get go. We always talk online and hangout whenever possible! I've invited both of them to my wedding, and I hope they can make it, but it's a little hard when the wedding is in Ohio and one lives in Texas while the other is in British Columbia. Either way, I love spending time with them and just shooting the breeze. Whether it's raiding together to defeat the evil horde, or kicking back and chatting away in Mumble, or finding random online games like iSketch or Cards Against Humanity to entertain us outside of Azeroth!
i met my wife in blackrock depths in 2009.i love her to bits
I met all my friends that I enjoy talking to on WoW about 3 years ago! I just really got into pc gaming from my buddy i've known for about 10 years now and he introduced me to the "Crew" that we call ourselves today! We raid together level dungeon even play other pc and console games! These guys are the only people I would ever consider to be family too me I even call one of them brother. We always talk on skype no matter what we're doing and always have the best of times together.
Most of the people that I keep in contact with in game I have either met IRL or have connected with over social media (facebook/twitter/etc.)I might watch an episode of a WoW meet up on this show.... Though I feel like shows like this single out the bad.. So I expect to see some years long "relationship" that ends up being some old dude catfishing some high school age kid that has been "dating" this other toon since Jr. High.
The Crazy Cat Lady as I like to refer to her is a friend I met through WoW from just talking in trade chat. She is on my Facebook now and we chat often about RL and Game stuff! I usually remove people from my friends list after a short time of no responses, but she has been on it for years now!
I was chatting with my fellow guildies one time a year or so ago. One of them struck up a conversation with me, and we soon became good friends in the game. After being confined to in-game chat, we decided to share numbers so we can chat all the time. We are best friends now, and even though we live across the country, we share a bond that is deeper than any of my friendships at home.
I met someone who is probably my best friend on a private server of WoW. We eventually moved to retail and we're great friends.
While I didn't meet my husband IN WoW, I did meet him BECAUSE of WoW. He started a guild on day one and invited his brother, and his brother's friends (including me) to join him.Besides that, I've met 100% of my raid group IRL and one of them has become an incredibly close friend and my husband and I were invited to his wedding. Meeting people IRL helps remind you that behind the pixels is a real person with feelings and makes me a nicer person in game.
I hardly know anyone in my guild (past and present) I would really like to meet in RL just because of certain personal differences.However, I have a friend I met on AOL back in 1996 (yes I am that old and do play WoW lol) that I became good friends with and would see each other when we would parties in our respective towns (the 2 major chat rooms for our state were 90 miles apart) every other month. After the birth of cable internet, we all slowed and quit using AOL and kinda went our separate ways but she and I kept in touch via AIM/MSN whatever. We would get together from time to time when her schedule allowed (she was an ER nurse).3 yrs ago, I crashed n burned in my apt and thought I had a heart attack but didn't I had A-fib. Long story short, I had a pacemaker defibrillator implanted, removed due to infection and various other complications. While staying with my parents recovering from all my hospital stays, she would come down on her days off and move me to my apt so I and my folks could have time apart.This last summer I had the pacemaker reimplanted without a hitch and less recovery time. She came to stay with me for a week to help me get around and do stuff I couldn't do with 1 arm on restricted mobility.One night, I had her bring my PC and hook it to my tv so I could play WoW on a 50" HD screen. She was like "You play WoW?" I said "Yeah why?" She said "I do too!"Now we are guildies and raid buddies. We even have our own Horde toons with just us in the guild.
Years ago, when I was in 8th grade my father picked up the game he said he told himself he wouldn't, World of Warcraft. At the time the idea amazed me and playing it myself did even further. My dad had joined a guild on an RP server called Scarlet Crusade which I will never forget. The first guild he joined was called the Gnome Mafia. When I was given the chance to play with my dads account I rejoiced. Not only was the guild active it was personal. Every week would be a guild meeting at the docks of SW or a round of drinks at the Slaughtered Lamb and drinks kegs of dwarf brew till we run sideways and barf even. Every member was close and shared problems and made strives to help one another. Like the time I had to get the dreadsteed by doing the quest series that brought me all over Azeroth. Making sure they had my back the Gnome Mafia officers like Hellas and the GM followed me around through the Barrens and the Swamp of Sorrows. Times that made me smile while walking through them and always will. Just the guild name makes me chuckle at times when I talk about it with my dad. Gnome Mafia and the people I friended back then will always make me think of what WoW was in better ways then what it is now.
Met some people back in 09 @ LK Progress. While those people do not play WoW anymore, we still go to the Gamescom yearly & we are still playing LoL together.
There's a gal that I met in WoW when I was still leveling up, way back when. No, there were no fireworks, but we clicked - we had similar interests, mindsets, and both just liked to chat with each other. Now, we know each others real names and we Skype with each other and our IRL friends. We've been friends for years, and I hope for years to come.
One of my best real life friends I had met while adventuring through Mulgore ages ago. Rather than compete for lvl 8 cougars, we teamed up and years later here we are.
I've met the best friend in WoW. First he was a friend of a friend. But now we are really good friends and met a few time offline although we live 550 km away
When I joined my guild years ago I never imagined I would become friends with an entire family. I first met this goofy 12yr old girl who then recruited her brother, sister, and mom and dad into the guild. Seven years later I'm still friends with her parents and we stay in contact when they take breaks during slow times between patches.
Back when the game first came out I was leveling an undead mage in Hillsbrad. At the time, the human farm area was full of elites and a quest chain out of TM. I randomly met a Tauren warrior and an undead priest, who were slightly higher level, and cranked out the quests. I grouped with them on and off until they left the game. Stand up dudes.
I played for a couple of years and I met there a couple of good friends and an amazing boyfriend. We all stopped playing a while ago, but things are going great.It is just another place. You can meet new people virtually everywhere (no pun intended).
I'm brazilian, and it's quite hard find player in my city.While I was on a guild, the raid members usually talk about our regional cuture, and there was one guy that was the same city as me.Time goes by, we talk a few times and another player whisper me ingame. Later I know that he was a real life friend of my guild partner, and lives in the same city as we three.Well, we always keep a promise for years to met and take a beer, but it takes a lot of time till we met offline. It was when I ordered a new keyboard to play from other country, and his sister-in-law was on trip, buying some techs for us.It was very strange at start, we talked little but we met later, other times. The ankward get low each time we met again, but it's really diferent when we meet someone from a online game.Idk, that's my history...
I've actually met a few people in real life that I've played the game with. Some meetings have gone well, some great, and one is known in guild as the worst weekend ever. That trip would have made for interesting TV so long as someone else played me.
I've met many great friends over the years since I started playing WoW. I guess the one that meant the most to my would be my friend Myz who passed away a couple years ago. She lived in Australia and I am in Canada so the chances of us ever meeting in real life would be slim to none but her and I became close friends and spent many days over a number of years playing this great game together.