Friendships have been made while playing World of Warcraft. Some people have played online with other players in Guilds and online friends groups for 20 years. But have you ever met those guildies and Wow online friends in real life? Like at meet-ups or conventions like Blizcon? Have you traveled across a country or the world to see in real life the buddies you’ve made in-game?
I would love to hear about your experience. And if you haven’t done so. Would you?
It’s funny - living in Vegas, I have been to a few WoW meet ups.
A lot of Guilds and communities have real life meet ups, and it seems they pick Vegas.
It’s been a few years, though.
I haven’t had bad experiences, but I usually just stopped by for a couple drinks and to say hello.
Yeah, I’ve met a few just because we happened to be close by. It’s alright if you’re a social person…and dont mind talking about WoW in public. That made it hard for me, because I play in shame 
Yea, they tried to make me join a cult
I don’t play with them anymore
Long time ago yeah. Though, we met in RL first then played in game together. Was kinda fun in a way.
Haven’t since then.
I have a few times.
Well about 5 times now I have met other guild members and lived with a couple later on.
Most of us grew distant over time and last one,well, yeah in the end didn’t turn out well and lost friendship, which now and I know sounds bad but without deets,is for the best.
Would I again, highly doubtful.
I was puging mythic SoO in Mop on my resto shaman. Got along with holy paladin shile healing and we figured that hes not only from the same country but a few houses away from me. Was really cool. I was 15 or so back then.
My (pretty dead)guild is run by my mom’s cousin, her husband and their son, so I can honestly say I’ve met some guild mates in person, lol. Other than them, only my wife and son play, and not nearly as much as I do.
As for strangers, nope, never met any in person. I’ve tried to make friends in game with strangers, never lasts, we add each other, talk once, they vanish for weeks or months, come back and sometimes we’ll message each other to try to remember why we are friends and then unfriend each other, lol. It’s fine…
Nope.
You better buy me dinner first 
or 
Back in the beginning of wow, a bunch of Alabama players would get together once a year for dinner and drinks. Guildies would get married, have babies, then some would divorce.
What memories.
I have met someone IRL that I had first known through WoW but they were friends with someone I already knew IRL so I’m not sure it counts. WoW friends that have no connection to RL friends, no, I haven’t met any. We all live far apart from each other.
Yep. Met a few while traveling on the road, had coffee, life went on. It’s always been a nice sliver of time to share RL with others you’ve spent so much time gaming with.
I gather with all my WoW friends regularly.
I have no WoW friends
I met my wife hoping into classic right before it went to tbc. When we got married this fall , we had 3 of our close guild mates and their spouses come to the wedding.
I haven’t.
I don’t think anyone would want to meet me in person either.
Yes. I’ve gone to dinner with a couple, gone on dates with some, and had relationships with some. It’s fun. I’d love to meet more, sure.
A Korean girl while eating bulgogi at Lotte. She prefers he system used in WOTLK.
I started playing with my two best IRL friends in 2005.
Since then we’ve had guildmates at two of our weddings, been to concerts with some, and had some weekends away with them. We’ve visited when each others’ kids were born.
This game will eventually end up in a Recycle Bin but I see no reason those relationships won’t outlast it.
Oh yea, over 20 years. Ive met many of friends that met not just in WoW. But TF2, EQ1, ect.
Many of those friends I still talk and chat with today. We use to skip school for raids. And the older people in the guild would be mad that we skipped so much school. He would lecture me on how its important to have a skill IRL to gain money and he helped me understand the basics of stocks.
My dad went to prison when I was 9. This man took up on the internet to be the male role model I needed. And Ill never forget that. he passed away from a brain tumor in 2009. RIP.
I never got to meet up with him IRL and chill. He owned a low rider business in cali. I deeply regret never meeting up with him. I was just really poor and the optics of a grown man with a kid might be bad. But he wasnt like that at all.
Yes. I met two guild mates in Vanilla, met another in the late days of BC, and then met a fourth during Cata.
My sister met her now-husband through their raiding guild, Undaunted (Area 52).
It tickles my mom pink. She’s one of the few family members who doesn’t play WoW, so she’s often teasing me, my sister, and my dad. But she adores her new son-in-law, and she gleefully tells her friends, “WoW has really blessed our family!”
Edit: I also met about… 15 more of my sister’s guild mates at her wedding. I have an alt in their guild so I already knew them a tiny bit. That was fun. 