I met my fiancé on WoW. About 4 years ago, I was leveling an alt through Northrend and doing the group quests in Dragonblight. Our group did a few of them and then disbanded and we went on our way. Later that evening I realized I had forgotten to do one and asked in chat if anyone was around to help and he whispered me and said he had to do it too. We thought it was funny that both of us forgot to do the same quest and we ended up talking for a while. About a year later we started dating, and shortly after that he moved across the country to live with me. We've been together almost three years now and I'm so grateful that the game brought us together.
Well, i met with a girl, on the argent dawn years ago, by now, she is my girlfriend, and we are moving together :)
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Find out just how crazy ur online friends are? been there, done that, met our guild master and a few others inreal life after meeting on wow
In the days of The Burning Crusade, I was a lone pvper, without a guild, or any real friends that I played with. I was fine with it and enjoyed the competitive aspect of pvp more than any other game. Then, one day I was sitting atop my netherdrake just outside of Shatt and was invited to a group. They whispered me, saying they needed a mage and asked me kindly if I would raid with them for the night. It went over well and they invited me to the guild and offered me a core spot in their main raid group. The guild master, officers and I all become really good friends and played together for three years until the guild fell apart in late Cataclysm. I have yet to see any of them back in the game, but I have a good feeling we'll meet up in Azeroth again sometime in the future.
About 5 years ago, me and a friend started playing. We eventually found a guild that was made up from people from our country. We enjoyed talking to all our guildmates, but wished to meet them in real life. So, we set up a meeting, and as we live in a small country, we were able to meet. We eventually met up quite often and we are good friends today. This strange group formation consists of 10 gamers, and we enjoy each of our meetings and outings!This was made possible thanks to WoW :)
Back in classic I was a Night elf druid with a very classy name, Druidelfkill, yea, I was younger back then, either way I had made my way from Teldrassil to Elwynn Forest(that painful journey man, I will never forget what it was like back then.)When I arrived at Goldshire, a level 60 Warrior had a simple look at me and could tell I was doing pretty much everything wrong, he offered to help me and at first I told him to leave me be but later accepted his help, I levelled and levelled and made errors and was corrected by him, it was great fun, he teached me the things I know today, we became great friends, he also had a female friend and we'd often roam the world, our favourite spot was the mountain between Northshire and the rest of Elwynn Forest.Then Burning Crusade came out and I kinda abandoned my druid, only playing him to have contact with my friends, my blood elf paladin was proudly named Druidereborn. Yea, I was still young, on that character I witnessed my friend on his human character attempt to raid the dragon in Duskwood, along with his entire guild and they didn't butcher me because they knew who I was.A while after that he and the female friend also rolled horde and we continued on our world-roaming journey, levelling along the way.They stopped playing and it's kinda sad that most of my adventuring is done alone now, but I still speak to them over Skype and Steam regularly, they even said they might come back for WoD, perhaps I can bully him over his silly Warrior's hair again.
Thanks for the opportunity. Over a seven year experience in the game, starting with connections to rl friends, I am very thankful for the friendships made. Living in a college town is a revolving door of social experience. The game provides me with a chance to stay in connect with old friends that have moved on as well the people worldwide I have come to befriend. I would have never enjoyed a failing battleground on a friday night, seen raid progression on an otherwise boring weekday night, or had the honor of completing legendaries without the time effort of others.
I've met several good friends on WoW & have a least one that is a friend on Facebook as well. At one point I did have a falling out with a friend but after about 2 months of not speaking we worked through issues & have since made up & our friendship is back on track. I've never met any of my friends from WoW in real life but the chance to meet one of them wouldn't be so bad. Especially the one I had a falling out with because his friendship was everything to me when I've had some personal issues & he was someone I could talk to without him judging me on what I may have done wrong. I do miss some of my friends that haven't been on in months or years & keep hoping that someday they will come back so we can cause some trouble like we used to.
When I was a struggling noob mage walking around Ratchet like a dope one day in 2006, I saw a Tauren at the bank and hollered "awesome guild name!" She was in Muffins and Ponies, and invited me to join her on the spot. We had an enormously fun time playing together and slowly learning about each other in real life and in game. Long days bonding over the way the Valentine's event was frustrating us or grinding for pets brought us closer. Her husband played too, and my then-boyfriend, and we would all party up and run around, or just party up and do our own thing while we chit chatted. (As chat channels and RealID came around, this became even easier.) In 2008, she came to San Diego to go to San Diego Comic-Con! We had never met before, and saw each other in person for the first time in the upstairs hallway - and it was like we had known each other for real for years! She stayed with me and my then-boyfriend for the epic length of SDCC and our friendship was cemented!Today one of my alts is GM of Muffins and Ponies!In 2011, she and her husband ended up moving to San Diego, where she had 8 guildies here to introduce her to the city and other people, including me, my now-ex boyfriend, and my current boyfriend (and guildie)! At the wedding of one of our guildies, we sat with folks who live in 6 different states but all share a server and a guild, and it was beautiful.My WoW peeps over the years have helped me play, sure, but they are also in my life!I am actually entering this contest to give her the prize because she is unemployed now and is a FERVENT pet-battler. I already have the mount and the pet but I really want her to have them.
sounds fun
I met a nice friend from Canada in WoW. He was my best friend for about 3 years. We talked on the phone daily, shared much of our innermost feelings. Unfortunately he quit playing, met a girl and I believe got married. It was great while it lasted. I also have a friend in game that is a great guy. Nothing romantic but I enjoy him a great deal. I have made some pretty close friends in WoW!
I got a really good friendship with a person that i knew back at Wrath of the Lich King, at the start i didn't know he speaks Spanish, after asking him he said yes, after asking him the Language i asked him where he lived and he told me Puerto Rico, and i felt awesome because that's where i live too. So we know in-game and in Real Life!
Back in Wrath of the Lich King(2009), I was in a guild called Fit to Burn. I joined it because my friend from school knew people in there and vouched for me for being a "great" Enhancement Shaman. After joining their core raid group, we progressed through Ulduar! I had tons of fun until a few of our raiders had to leave the team. We started pugging raiders and took an interest from a select few from this guild called Tainted. My GM decided to "merge" the guilds into one and we did just that. That's when I met Raineyangel, or Chelsea! I always (and still do) loved costume items. One thing that I was always after ever since BC was the Orb of the Sin'dorei. Being a Draenei Shaman, I thought it would be awesome to be able to turn into a Blood Elf. I always asked Guild Chat for another person to come help me with Heroic Magister's Terrace and Chelsea responded for a while. Our personalities complemented each other and I ended up adding her to my friend's list and waited for her to run it everyday. After a while, the mergers from Tainted left Fit to Burn. I don't really remember why, just that I was sad that I wasn't gonna be raiding with Chelsea anymore. Despite this, we still kept in touch and ran pugs together and hung out in the game. The sadness I felt was brough back up again when I found out Chelsea planned on quitting WoW. Before she did, she gave me her number!For the remainder of Sophomore year in high school, I texted her everyday and we had tons of long conversations. I considered her to be one of my best friends because I could talk to her about anything and the same went for her. On my birthday (which is today :P) in 2010, she sent me a care package all the way from New Jersey! (I live in South Carolina). In it was a Horse bucket (she loved horses and we owned 2 at the time), a web cam because I didn't have one for Skype, and 2 friendship bracelets she made! I promised I would get her something for her birthday in October. I ended up buying an Epic Purple Shirt from the mall, but I couldn't find a small, so I told her I'd have to take a rain check on it.Flash forward to this past year: 2013. although she didn't play WoW anymore, she got me hooked on League of Legends. We play that a lot when I don't have classes to go to and we Skype every so often to catch up and talk about random things. October came around the corner and I had the Epic Purple Shirt sent to her house without her knowing. She was extremely happy and actually snapchatted me today wearing it because it's my birthday :).With all of this being said, I made one of my closest/best friends on WoW. Its been 5 years that I've known Chelsea. I never knew that I would meet someone (especially someone who is 3 years older than me) on this game and be as close as we are. Chelsea still doesn't play, but it doesn't mean anything against our friendship (although she said she's thinking about playing Warlords of Draenor xD). That's my story of a lifelong friendship that I'm sure I've made with someone that I have yet to meet in real life, for now :P
More than 3 years ago i entered this guild where i met awesome friends, and the future mom of my baby! at the time she was engaged with someone else but eventually they broke up...seeing each other wasnt easy, we lived at more then 3 hour of car travel, but eventually i moved in with her and now we have a sweet 6 month old baby! a son that would never come to life without wow :)
perhaps this would have been useful when the player base was about 17 times what it is now but it seems strange to start something like this for WoW at this point in its life cycle.
At first me and my friends didn't want to play WoW because it was a paid game, after like 2 years of coming out we thought, let's give it a try it cant be that bad... it was the "worst" decision ever made xD. From then on we only played WoW and occasionally other games.Me and my friends entered a guild from my country and have been attending some lunches and dinners from the guild, and we have some great times together in and outside the game both with my old friends as well as the new ones.
I met my best friend playing, even if he's living in another country now I'm very grateful for meeting him via WoW.
Catfish: Taking professional stalking to a new level.
I am not unique in my story, but felt I should share because sometimes we all need to hear about something cool in the world.It was June, 2005 when I got back from Iraq with my unit out of Ft. Drum, NY. We had been receiving gaming magazines and were all excited to play this new game called World of Warcraft that had recently come out. I got into it pretty heavy and within a few months I was an officer in a guild working hard to down Ragnaros (like many, many others). It was around this time that I met three of my closest friends. 1. He was a dps warrior LONG before dps warriors were cool. He is currently the top rated RBG warrior on our server, and has since grown to play like 5 different 90's. But, over the years I got to share with him as he grew up from a chubby, insecure kid into a young man that now is a few dozen pounds lighter, mountain bikes regularly, has an awesome steady g/f and is working through veterinarian tech school. 2. She was (and still mains) a priest. She was never the most skilled in game, but this woman (I say that because I am 34, and she is slightly older than me) would never quit. She would always be one of the first to understand the fight mechanics and "get it". Always reliable and friendly and there to lend a hand. Over the years she has been through a couple of marriages, her own ups and downs in the economy and her own hardships. But, she still logs on and we catch up weekly on what goes on, and I have received plenty of relationship advice from her. Good advice, I might add.3. The lazy warlock. During the MC days, this dude would AFK through trash like a professional. We even had an inside joke referring to the one time he said he was going to go grab a piece of cake and AFK'd for the rest of the run. He grew up in gangs, selling drugs and living a pretty tough life but over the years he cleaned up, currently works a solid IT job and just recently completed one of his bucket-list items: to purchase an old Datsun 510 to restore. He and I discuss politics and current events and it usually ends in a fiery debate, all while doing arena.The kicker? I have never had the chance to meet these 3 people. (My brother has met 2 of them, due to him living closer geographically). When I try to explain these types of friendships to people who do not play WoW (like my fiancee) I am usually met with a look of slight confusion. People just don't get it, and it's OK. They do not understand that back in the day WoW was pretty hard core. You would often spend more time with the 39 people online raiding than you sometimes would with co-workers or actual friends. And whether you argue that it was good or bad, the point is we built these friendships that we all cherish.I am grateful for my WoW friends, and although we have all left WoW and ventured into other games, we always seem to come back to WoW. And, 9 years later, here we are.