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| Who likes PC games mmorpg's and do you think having a partner into that stuff lead to love
Posted: 12/2/2007 2:33:35 AM | From post 3: "....Its interesting that in asia the gamers are a lot older then the U.S.A. but a lot of them didn;t grow up with TV most folks in the USA are trained by TV enjoy only passive intertainment ..."
I think that the OP is making a probably valid sociological observation there!
But then forumming is not passive entertainment either. Dating even less passive! lol lol lol | |
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| Who likes PC games mmorpg's and do you think having a partner into that stuff lead to love
Posted: 12/2/2007 6:13:49 AM | The only one who wins at MMORPGs is the person who is taking your money.
Give me a real game with a real plot....
As to the actual question- I would LOVE to meet a woman who was into most of this stuff. They'd have to fit my other criteria too, though--- there's a reason I don't date my female friends (who all have similar interests but wouldn't be compatible). | |
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| Who likes PC games mmorpg's and do you think having a partner into that stuff lead to love
Posted: 12/7/2007 10:07:00 PM | It was pretty adorable.
YOU'RE pretty adorable. :P
I've actually been in the wedding party at a wedding before. Everybody wore their best [Tuxedo Jacket], a paladin in some form of sexy ceremonial robes did the ceremony, the bride had a [White Wedding Dress] and [Flawless Diamond Solitaire], it was near a moonwell in Moonglade, it was beautiful.
Then, OF COURSE, a raid of Horde came and crashed the party. Since we're on an RP server, they couldn't attack us, but they got in everybody's way, made rude gestures, cast AoE things, and all in all disrupted the ceremony.
...so we summoned about three full guilds (all guilds of various wedding party members), they all got there and waited at the FP so the Horde didn't know they were around. Then we flagged and killed 'em all. Of course, they could just corpsewalk and attack us again since we were still flagged, but by the time they got back to their corpses, there was about another 50 epic'd out 60s waiting for them to respawn.
...needless to say, there were no more disruptions, and the wedding was beautiful.
Anyways, back on topic now. :P I have dated gamer girls. In fact, I am fairly sure that I ONLY date gamer girls. Some of 'em aren't really gamers 'til they meet me, and then they get hooked on something. Not all of them play MMORPGs, some just play PS2 or whatever, but pretty much all of my girlfriends have been into videogames. It is tons of fun to have the shared activity, especially in the case of WoW or something similar, because instead of just sitting around and watching a movie, you're sitting around and working towards a common goal together. HOWEVER, watch out for jealousy issues, if one of you levels too quickly, or wins a roll on really good loot that you both want, or if that night elf flirts with you, or any number of other things. It seems petty, but seeing how much time is spent on these things, the potential is there for things to break. That said, although I've met lots of people online and have subsequently dated several, I've never dated someone I've met on an MMO itself. Heck the only people I know from MMOs who actually live in my neck of the woods are people I knew BEFORE the game, and I don't tend to date over long distances anymore. So, yes it's possible to find love there, I'd recommend finding love outside of the game, but with someone who likes to play (trust me, lots of girls play WoW), I'm totally into the game myself (although I often go months without playing, I'll then come back and binge for a couple months. I've been on and off playing like that since March of 2005, and I STILL don't have a 70, or an epic EVER, but I'm okay with that).
Wow, I ramble a lot. Anyways, go Alliance, down with the Horde (although I don't really have anything against the Horde specifically, other than they're the enemies, and of course Barrens Chat. Since I so very rarely PvP, they don't bother me at all). If anybody plays on Shadow Council (one of the oldest servers around, RP or otherwise) on the Alliance side, drop me a line (I have nine characters on that server alone, so here's a list):
Kelwynn 63 Night Elf hunter, Asherlily 50 Gnome rogue, Erria 44 Night Elf priest, Wilhemina 37 Human warlock, Crommower 29 Dwarf warrior, Asherrose 21 Gnome mage, Tsujikiri 20 Night Elf druid, Ceilidhwynn 13 Draenei shaman, Kelwynnos 9 Draenei paladin. (And I wonder why I don't have a 70 yet. :P) Yes, all of my Alliance characters (except the Dwarf) are ladies. Deal with it. :P
Anyways, say hi. I won't think it's weird, I'm always looking for people to play with (I mostly solo), and I might even invite you to one of my tiny "just for friends" guilds if you want an invite (guilds what exist primarily just to give you a cool name over your head, like "The Wolf Ram and Hart" and "Raiders of the Lost Orc")
Gamer girls, message me on HERE too. :)
...wow, I talk way too much. Ciao. :P
P.S. - I love patch 2.3. My alts are finally getting some love. 4 dings on my priest last night, and I STILL have rested XP. Yay! | |
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| Who likes PC games mmorpg's and do you think having a partner into that stuff lead to love
Posted: 12/7/2007 10:14:31 PM |
I can pull off 3 levels a day through the 40s and 50s.
Yeah, my shadow priest went from 40 to 44 last night, from questing, in about 4 hours, and I STILL have rested XP. I am so giddy about the newest patch.
What server are you on?
Also, Beholder is the only person so far who listed a server on which I have any characters at all (Hyjal), and go figure, they're opposite faction! :P | |
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| Who likes PC games mmorpg's and do you think having a partner into that stuff lead to love
Posted: 12/7/2007 10:21:42 PM |
Shadowrun
Holy Shadowrun! I am SUCH an old school tabletop RPGer. I've been playing Dungeons and Dragons since I was 9 (yes, that's 18 years of experience, okay, so not Gary Gygax old school, but still pretty old school), and I have since then also played Shadowrun, Ars Magica, most of the White Wolf games, Munchkin, Rifts (boo Palladium!), Amber, Cyberpunk 2020, GURPS, and I know I'm forgetting some others. Some I played a little bit (Munchkin, Amber, Cyberpunk 2020), some I played excessively, like, I would spend my class time making characters or working on storylines (I USUALLY GM games instead of play, and I believe in very involved stories that don't involve power gaming or hack 'n' slash. That's what video games are for) instead of doing work, and you could always hear dice rattle in my backpack (mostly Vampire/WoD and D&D 2nd/3rd).
It's a good thing I'm proud to be a geek, or this'd just be too humiliating to post. :) | |
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| Who likes PC games mmorpg's and do you think having a partner into that stuff lead to love
Posted: 12/7/2007 10:29:49 PM | Oh yeah, one last waffle from me.
I've played lots of MMOs that aren't WoW. I started with Star Wars: Galaxies, which used to be okay, bordering on wonderful for Star Wars geeks like me, and now is pretty crappy. I then moved onto Horizons, and if anybody here has even HEARD of that, you've earned a cookie (but you could be a dragon! It was, and still is, a pretty sweet game, just has almost zero player base). I've also played Ultima Online (free shards only), and I'm really interested in checking out the revamp/new client from a few months ago. Also tried Dark Ages of Camelot a little bit, played me some City of Heroes/City of Villains (love that game), still play 9 Dragons occasionally, am currently in the beta for Pirates of the Burning Sea, can't wait to check out Conan Online and see if it's any good (it looks AWESOME), play D&D Online from time to time, tried out Lord of the Rings Online (didn't love it), and am totally in love with EVE Online. Such a great game if you're into science fiction and space stuff. Such a different dynamic than any other MMO, but a STEEP learning curve (don't skip the tutorial, and don't be afraid to ask questions!)
...wow, I feel like I'm trying to establish geek cred here, but really it's just nice to have a forum full of like-minded people to blather on with, that ISN'T a gaming forum. :) | |
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| Who likes PC games mmorpg's and do you think having a partner into that stuff lead to love
Posted: 12/9/2007 2:09:43 AM | i play online as well. FPS (first person shooters) C&C Renegade is my primary game but also play BF2 and BF2142. Get on Teamspeak and talk to others while playing.
Been doing it for 6 years now. Have met some awesome people and have some great friendships, mostly women lol, from playing online.
Its not just for kids. Would love to find a woman into gaming. | |
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| Who likes PC games mmorpg's and do you think having a partner into that stuff lead to love
Posted: 12/9/2007 5:48:49 AM | Really though-- if you're going to play an MMO, why not get together 3 or 4 real people and play a table top RPG?
I had way more fun playing tabletop than I did when I tried an MMO.
As for the person that said that older people are more likely to play games in Asia-- I think they're more likely to admit to it. In North America we tend to say that when you're adult it is time to change into an adult-- that means no more childish things. (Not too long ago my mother was discussing a fantasy novel with a woman... when the woman described it she seemed embarrassed... but my mother quoted a memorable line from the book [which I had given her to read not that long ago]- people are embarrassed when they think that people will interpret their hobbies as "childish."
Hell, look at all of the video game threads with people coming out saying, "Men don't play video games, boys do." I must be hanging out with the wrong crowd then... 'cause all of my friends (men & woman) play.
Besides-- I wouldn't give most of the games that interest me to a child anyway. They'd either have too much depth or too much violence. | |
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| Who likes PC games mmorpg's and do you think having a partner into that stuff lead to love
Posted: 12/9/2007 6:35:06 AM |
Really though-- if you're going to play an MMO, why not get together 3 or 4 real people and play a table top RPG?
I wish it were that simple. Lets see... every time I try to get a P&P group going it ends because men have this bad habit of picking out women that try to change them and nag that they're spending 4 hours a week playing an immature game instead of spending them pampering them. :) Even worse, as a single female... even if the wives are okay with the men gaming they often are not okay with them gaming with me because I perceived as a serious threat to them. Other friends that could play we find it hard to coordinate schedules and find a consistent time to play together... many have moved away and don't even live near me any longer. This is why my primary means of tabletop gaming is at conventions (Origins and Gencon) and the rest is spent playing MMORPGs where I can solo when the friends aren't free or group with them when they are available. | |
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| Who likes PC games mmorpg's and do you think having a partner into that stuff lead to love
Posted: 12/9/2007 6:50:26 AM | Yeah, my shadow priest went from 40 to 44 last night, from questing, in about 4 hours, and I STILL have rested XP. I am so giddy about the newest patch.
Yes, this weekend I played about 10 hours and got my mage from 60 to 61 and my hunter from 58 to almost 61.
I do have to question your rested xp though since it is only 2 levels at fully rested. I suppose it's possible if really went through a lot of quests quickly with the help of a higher level person. | |
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| Who likes PC games mmorpg's and do you think having a partner into that stuff lead to love
Posted: 12/9/2007 7:56:42 AM | mmmmm, gaming! No one on this thread so far is into my games though!
My first MMORG was Neopets. Not much actual gaming involved, but i had an Adult Guild, and we were tight! Mostly women, but the few men that were around got lots of virtual cookies and huggles from all the girls.
Then I moved on to Puzzle Pirates, which is a great game, because it tends to be more adults than kids, since it involves teamwork and leadership. Lots of "online" romance in that game, every Captain needs their First mate. I know lots of them get together in Real life for parties.
Now I'm stuck on Runescape (ya, I know, I'm about a decade behind). I find Runescape to be lonely, though, not much real interaction between people. But it makes it easier, since you can play for a short time and not disappoint people on your team when you have to leave to take the kids to school, or **gasp** work.
On Puzzle Pirates we would set up a Ventrilo server for our big Blockades, which is total fun, and lets you get to know people's real voices.
See I'm not even a cool nerd, I play games that the nerds would consider nerdy 
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| Who likes PC games mmorpg's and do you think having a partner into that stuff lead to love
Posted: 12/9/2007 12:29:45 PM |
Really though-- if you're going to play an MMO, why not get together 3 or 4 real people and play a table top RPG?
Because it's not that easy. You have to find a group of like-minded people, who all want to play the same game, who aren't already busy with other games, who aren't game breakers, who don't ALL want to GM (or all want to play), who have the time to do so (scheduling conflicts destroy many a great tabletop game), and a million other variables. If you log onto an MMO, there's almost always someone around if you want to team up, not to mention you can just solo if you want to. You can't solo a table top game. Even if it's a one person adventure, you still need a second person to run it.
Sherilyn70: [quote I do have to question your rested xp though since it is only 2 levels at fully rested. I suppose it's possible if really went through a lot of quests quickly with the help of a higher level person.
There was no assistance from a higher level person. I did the ENTIRE stretch by myself. However, it was all questing. I didn't grind anything. I actively avoided killing mobs that I didn't need to kill for my quests, to make my rested XP last longer. Also, it's only 150% rested XP you get (a level and a half, not two), which likely makes the veracity of my claim harder to ascertain, but it's true. I was at a full 150% when I started, I quested like it was going out of style, I didn't waste any of my rested XP, and oh, although I said I had rested XP left over when I was finished, I didn't say that it was only like, 3.4% (less than a bubble). Also, I forget where I started questing, but MOST of it was doing the new quests in Dustwallow Marsh. I did EVERY quest there within those four hours, and ding ding ding! ...sold most of my quest rewards tho'. Some decent shadow priest stuff, but I already had better. :P
Clearly, for those who don't already know, questing is the way to go. I am EXTREMELY resistant to even playing (at least, playing to gain XP) when I don't have rested XP (one of the reasons I have so many alts...whomever I'm playing is always rested to an extent), and questing is the best way to retain it. Plus it's way faster. If you look at any of the speed levelling guides out there (I honestly don't care about getting myself to 60 in four days, but they do have good lists of what quests to do when because say, quest A, B, and C all have things to do in the same neck of the woods), they all say quest like a monkey, and don't even worry about grinding. Besides, it's rather less boring 'cos it stops you from falling asleep while you kill the 900th ogre. :P | |
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| Who likes PC games mmorpg's and do you think having a partner into that stuff lead to love
Posted: 12/9/2007 1:10:26 PM |
Really though-- if you're going to play an MMO, why not get together 3 or 4 real people and play a table top RPG? Oh man don't say that, you're going to get Utilitarian started... then he'll want me to larp too! 
But yeah, playing an MMO instead of tabletop does have its advantages... you can play whenever, for however long you want, and if you're feeling under the weather (which tends to happen to me fairly often), you're not becoming a burden on everyone else and keeping the game from continuing (or making the GM play you or whatever).
Of course it's less similar still unless you're playing on an RP server - which the vast majority of people playing WoW aren't. (Myself included - although I have a friend that did... she was a former MUD player, and the amount of backstory and out-of-game events scripted out was mind boggling)
Actually I just had a strange thought of paying for someone to powerlevel your character... in a tabletop. Visualizing a scruffy asian guy showing up to a P&P game with my character sheets in hand... while wearing my clothes. "Of course it's me, how else would I have these sheets and know where to show up? You guys are crazy, let's just get started!"
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| Who likes PC games mmorpg's and do you think having a partner into that stuff lead to love
Posted: 3/28/2008 7:14:07 AM |
Id quit if I lost everything that I have ingame.
which is why Im not really into other games.
I'm not sure what you meant by that second line... you don't ever lose anything you have in MMORPGs. I think all of us would have quit by now if you did, hehe.
I tried runescape but couldn't get into it... I just can't go backwards in technology. | |
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| Who likes PC games mmorpg's and do you think having a partner into that stuff lead to love
Posted: 3/29/2008 12:47:34 AM | MMORPG take to long to level up, and to learn the story line.
in runescape theres a possibility of being BANNED or LOCKED if you break to many rules. such as scripting or running a macro program to give you an advantage over others. If I was ever banned Id just stop playing altogether.
I tried WoW but didnt like being new. Its just not worth learning the story line and gaining the levels anymore. In runescape I already know almost everything, least enough to have fun.
dont you have to start over when you play on a new server?
server/world/realm... W/E | |
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