Azeroth comes through on the love hunt

by Mike Schramm Jul 23rd 2008 at 5:00PM

This is one of the sillier articles that PC Gamer UK has probably ever written about massively multiplayer online games, but still, I enjoyed it. One of their writers went (only half seriously) looking for love in a few popular virtual worlds, and he found it, surprisingly enough, in Azeroth.

Neither EvE Online or City of Heroes were very helpful in the love-finding department -- despite finding a fetching young lady superheroine in CoH, the writer was a little disappointed to find out she was a he behind the keyboard. But WoW, as usual, provides the best of MMO experiences -- the writer finds some cute love in the Night Elf starting area.

Sure, it's silly (and probably not true -- just because someone says they're a Finnish college student means nothing at all online). But I found it strangely touching, the thought that a real human connection could be made in an online game. And isn't that why we play these in the first place?

[via WorldofWar.net]

Tags: azeroth, love, meeting, pc-gamer-uk, people, silly, story, writing

Filed under: Night Elves, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Humor

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bigbankhank Jul 23rd 2008 5:35PM

Blood elves made me fall in love with my hand all over again

vlad Jul 23rd 2008 5:50PM

dammit. i cant believe you.

totaly beat me to what i was going to say almost verbatim

Superstone Jul 23rd 2008 6:02PM

I know two people who are actually married after meeting in WoW.

10 million people who love video games. Thousands on a server... it happens.

/shrug

Sy Jul 23rd 2008 6:27PM

There's a guy on the Arathor realm called Jonboyo, a nelf rogue. I'm an undead rogue, whenever we see each other on the BG list we deliberatly try to find the other, sap them and beat the living crap out of them. Then the /rofl emote occurs at the dead player, this has been going on for a few days now and its stupid how funny its become.

So heres to you jonboyo, your a decent rogue and one of the few opponents that makes me work to win at a fight, even if you are a scumbag alli, huzzah!

Amazing how unlikely friendships can be made across realms and through a language barrier just from monging around with emotes.

Badger Jul 24th 2008 11:04AM

"So heres to you jonboyo"

I heard the music from the Budweiser commercials the minute I read this line.

Manatank Jul 23rd 2008 6:27PM

I met my girlfriend playing WoW. She's smart, beautiful, and one of the best players I've run with.

Juneau Jul 23rd 2008 7:59PM

I got that mag a while ago and I've read the article, it was a good read. Bloody hilarious. I was thinking about trying what he did on WoW for a laugh sometime, but I never got round to it. Cheers for reminding me, haha.

Tenchan Jul 24th 2008 2:05AM

I honestly don't get why that's still treated as something so special. Millions of people sharing the same hobby. Of course you form bonds of all kinds. And not all of us are little boys (or old men) pretending to be women. I guess the stereotypes still stick too much in peoples' minds.