Have you made friends IRL with players you met in WoW?

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I’ve met some really cool people in WoW, especially in the vanilla days, but I never actually met up with any of them. What about you? Have you made friends IRL with players you met in WoW?

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I went to a number of Guild weekends and meetups in real life, during Vanilla/TBC/Wrath days. Beyond that, people weren’t as invested in the social side of things and it all mostly stopped.

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One of my best friends today was my co-GM in WotLK. I’ve had a few meetups with some other people as well.

A good friend of mine from high school ended up marrying a guildie though, so that’s probably the biggest success story I’ve seen of friends transcending the game.

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Nope. My WoW friend was a friend first, they got me into the game years ago. Other friends that played, same, I knew them first.

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I made some good friends pre-TBC, but never met any IRL.

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I hardcore raided with a guy from launch to the end of Wrath. We never met because of distance. However when I went to university I ended up 20 minutes from him.

We met, went out for drinks and, well, he disappeared halfway through the night. After wondering where he was for ages, we went looking. He’d only passed out in the student bar toilet cubicle, sat on the loo, pants around ankles, puke everywhere.

The barman had to climb into the cubicle and unlock it.

Cost him £20 to get a taxi home, which we escorted him in of course. He tried to blame us, but he was the one who kept disappearing and coming back with shots x-D.

We’re still friends today.

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My sister married my PvP archenemy. Traitor. :angry:

…seriously though, when my sister introduced us one of the things she said was “oh you both play that stupid game!”. We both glared. We started talking about our toons. He was like “I KNOW YOU!” I thought he was just being a dork. He sent me an ingame mail from his Horde toon (This was back in the good old days when Kami was an Orc)
Small world! (of warcraft)

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I hope you disowned her?

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I forgave her. Eventually.

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A lot of people I played with in vanilla were already IRL friends from college. However, there are people I met through WoW that I’ve become good friends with and met IRL. One, in fact, was my wedding photographer.

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I ended up meeting a 37 yr old troll priest healing cougar in WSG when i was 19. She ended up flying from the West coast to the East coast to be with me… clearly it didn’t work out but WHAT a week/weekend!

Reminiscing

We are still good friends to this day :slight_smile: and all because WoW put us in the same BG and she happened to heal her butt off while i melted peoples faces with my twinked out shadow priest.

Kneels Before The WoW Gods

Thanks Blizzard

Signed

IRL LvL 19 Quelthala

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Met someone who lived in my state, and he became a good family friend until he got married and cut games out of their life altogether.

Flew all the way across the country to meet 3 of my guildies who I had known for 3 years at that point. We are still good friends to this day and I’d do it again in a heartbeat.

Really looking forward to making even more friendships like that in classic.

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i haven’t made a single friend in my whole 27 years.

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Yes. I’ve made a handful of RL friends through WoW.

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Stop making married friends, its easier.

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Oh yes! Even did a guild meetup in Seattle. That was a fun weekend, and still friends til this day.

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Never met up with any of them, but I would definitely consider them the closest friends I’ve had.

You see, I live in the deep southeast. Everyone else is scattered across the midwest, northeast, or west coast. No way it’s possible for us to meet up anyways.

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I’m about an hour and a half South of there :].

As for meeting people, absolutely. Had a legitimate relationship with a girl from Edmonton (I live in Washington state). Flirted and did tons of stuff in-game together for a few months, then I flew all the way up there to hang out for a week. Had an amazing week and we made it serious. I eventually found out she was going through a divorce when she met me, which she didn’t talk about or even hint at. Apparently she had done the WoW relationship thing a couple times and I was the one who broke the relationship irreparably between her and her husband. It didn’t last because of obvious infidelity and trust issues.

I met a couple good friends from my area when I raided on private servers. I’m still friends with a few of them. I even had beers with the illustrious Staysafe as we happen to live 20 minutes from each other.

And lastly I have one great friend off in Australia who I’ve known for 13 years now. We’ve never met, but we are still friends to this day. If I ever travel to the land down under, I’ll be having beers with him.

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I met a really great friend in WoW. We were inseparable, our wives said we were attached at the brain. I even let him and his wife rent a room from me, and spent my tax refund to help them move across country, when living with his in-laws was threatening to kill his marriage.

When they moved in, it became quickly apparent that his wife was abusive. He dropped out of school and got two jobs, she quit her job and worked on her degree. Three months later, they spontaneously moved out, owing a month and a half of rent, and moved back across the country. I never heard from him again.

I found out later that his wife finished her degree and divorced him, leaving him with a pile of debt.

Sad times.

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Reading this hurts, and was exactly what I went through with my ex-wife. She met some boy on the game (our raid leader) and began having an affair with him. It was too much to recover from… so I ended up leaving her.

This wasn’t in Washington state, though, and my story happened 5 years ago.

Edit: We weren’t going through a divorce at the time the affair had started though, the affair was what prompted the divorce.