I was reminiscing with a good friend of mine today (who I met in EQ1) about all the people we met playing that game. Of the dozens of folks who became good friends, we know 5 couples who met playing EQ1 and got married (this includes my sister and brother-in-law). All 5 couples are still married today. :) At my wedding, the only bridesmaid who was not one of my sisters was an EQ1 guildmate, and a quarter of my wedding guests were guildmates.
Did you meet your spouse/SO playing an MMO? Know other people who did?
I'm curious just how many folks out there found their loves in the wilds of Norrath, or in other online worlds. :)
While I myself am eternally single, I have known at least half a dozen couples that met and got married in EQ1, WoW, or DDO. Including a real life best friend and fellow Marine who met his wife of 15ish years now in EQ1. I was his best man and almost half the wedding guests were guildmates/allied guildmates. It was a truly wonderful event.
BelgrimIcereaver said:While I myself am eternally single, I have known at least half a dozen couples that met and got married in EQ1, WoW, or DDO. Including a real life best friend and fellow Marine who met his wife of 15ish years now in EQ1. I was his best man and almost half the wedding guests were guildmates/allied guildmates. It was a truly wonderful event.
So very cool! I've met a lot of married military folks who play often as a way to stay in touch and "hang out" with their SOs when one of them is deployed, too. I do the same with my sister - we live on opposite coasts so it's a great way to "be there" even if it's not face-to-face.
Didn't meet playing computer games but I think we can be forgiven for that since there WAS no on-line gaming when we met and got married. And no personal computers for that matter. Well before even very basic console games like Pong.
But once the wheel turned and these things were invented we spent loads of time playing them together.
My wife and I met at inn 1 in 1999. We got married in 2003 and just enjoyed our 14th anniversary. The funny part is we both played druids and were always arguing about who was better. She could root rot 6 mobs at a time with her epic and bracer while I quad kited around her on the Tro-Jeg plat. We have both quit playing MMO's but we want to start playing again when PROTF comes out. I just hope we havent "grown out" of the desire to play. I was a raid leader and she was the MT defiler in EQ2 and it became a job.
my brother in law met his now exwife in EQ1
i met hubby IRL right as EQ2 was launchin and hes been playing EQ1 since launch. Ive been playing EQ2 on and off since launch.
funny how i used to hate his gaming and now i shudder in terror at the thought of neither of us having our games
jolina said:my brother in law met his now exwife in EQ1
i met hubby IRL right as EQ2 was launchin and hes been playing EQ1 since launch. Ive been playing EQ2 on and off since launch.
funny how i used to hate his gaming and now i shudder in terror at the thought of neither of us having our games
Yes indeed! You were a gamer and you didn't even know it. We can finally have a game together again in Pantheon. :)
I met Kalibos while playing Neverwinter. <3 We've been married since October 2014. (My previous relationship started in EQ, too.) Online gaming is a great place to start a relationship because you get to know the other person as friends first and know their honest personality before you ever see them in real life.