I met my best friend in WoW

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In 2007, the day before BC released, I was questing in Duskwood on my human mage named Edward. Another human, a rogue named Buddy, was following me around, skinning every worgen I killed. I was like “dude what are you doing” and he was like “skinning your dead puppies” and I was like oh damn, you seem cool. Minutes into the convo we realized that we lived an hour away from each other in NJ. Hours later we went to our own GameStops to pick up BC and talked on the phone the whole time.

So weeks later we hung out. I met his wife (also a gamer), I was there when his sons were born, he was there when my dad died, we texted every day for all these years. I remember when the April fools day Bard joke was released (you play the class by doing a guitar hero rotation) and he called me saying how excited he was for it, lmfao. “Bro… look at today’s date.” He was so disappointed. :rofl:

Fast forward to last week. I moved from NJ to Florida, and the dude drove down with me. 24 hours on the road, no stops. He-Man’d that move down, it was so much fun. His wife made us a care package of food and drinks and was like “enjoy your Blackrock Mountain trip,” comparing our outing to Brokeback Mountain, which was hysterical.

I will forever be grateful to WoW for helping me meet the bestest friend I’ve ever had.

How about you all? Meet any special people in your life in this special game?

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So in 2007 someone named ‘Buddy’ was following you around?
Like… was this his master plan…? You’ve known him since 2007 but I feel like he’s known you longer. :eye: :lips: :eye:

I met my wife in another video game. But in WoW specifically, no. I had some really good online friends but over the years they’ve dwindled away sadly.

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Hahaha probably, I admit it’s the main reason I actually messaged him. What a cool name to have. He was like “Yeah Buddy the Friendly Rogue!” And everytime he threw a dagger at an enemy he would type “Dagger to the FACE!” It was so funny back then.

What game did you meet your wife on? I attended a wedding in Everquest once, it was really cool.

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Yep. The husband and I were married before WoW, but we started playing early on and our first guild (a successful Vanilla era guild that we were very fortunate to be part of) was separated into “houses.” This is how the officers managed to keep things personal and address concerns before drama arose. Back then, the groups had to be VERY large to sustain 40-man raids, and we had two raid teams going at any given time.

We met a person named Gummybear who played a hunter, and as time went on, it became clear that she was “our people.” We also met a rogue named Damitree, and the same was true for him. Neither of them were in our house, though, so it was after Vanilla, when things got smaller and the guild became much more tight-knit that we really became friends.

Gummy and Damitree got married IRL somewhere around Wrath of the Lich King’s release, and we met them in person for the first time at the wedding of yet another old guild mate (who was a member of our Vanilla guild house).

Now, we’ve grown old together as a pair of couples. We go to their house. They come to our house. They helped us move. We’ve taken trips together. When we lived in Japan, they flew out and we all went to the mainland for an epic vacation. Damitree and Mr. Meriweather climbed Mt. Fuji together. Gummy and I are becoming old ladies together.

When our daughter needed a summer internship for her programming degree, she ended up in the part of the country where they live, and they hosted her the entire summer from their guest room so she wouldn’t have to find an apartment and rent.

So yeah. We met some of our best friends in this game…and Gummy & Damitree are not the only folks we have come to know and love IRL because of WoW.

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I met a guy named Tom. He would go on to become one of the most misunderstood mages of all time. I didn’t realize at the time, he was just Tom to me. He liked snake pets. Ended up getting booted from a guild and they couldn’t even bring themselves to say his name after that. So dramatic.

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That’s a beauty about the MMO genre, you really do meet some of the greatest people you wouldn’t have met else where. I met my best friend on WoW too, due to logistics we haven’t met in person, but been friends for 10+ years. We both don’t really play WoW, usually little after a new expansion releases we’ll team up for max and hang up our hat for a long while. But we play plenty of other games together!

I think it’s a lot harder to find friends like this in other game genres, because everything is so fast now, you can meet 100+ people in a 30 minute to 1 hour sitting now a days, because Que is so fast and a giant pool of people, and you don’t really need others to reach personal goals.

MMO’s you eventually need someone else’s help to hit a goal of yours. Or through whatever you’re grinding there’s someone else out there doing the same exact thing as you.

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You guys are cool…… :pleading_face: I hope I meet someone … someday. But I’m a weirdo in my own world sometimes :pensive: and I read… alot so Idk if I would have the attention span honestly.

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I met one of my closest friends playing WoW in Shadowlands. She was a Co-GM in the guild my wife and I joined, and I was under the radar for about a month until I joined one of their raids. We hit it off immediately after I confused her for her cousin in voice chat, and even now, in another guild, we still play together almost daily.

Don’t think I’d be playing still if not for her bringing me into the guild I’m in now.

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Quite a few, actually. They’re in my guild. Some of them even came to my wedding. :purple_heart:

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Aww, I loved your story! <3 :slightly_smiling_face:

As for me, not recently since anxiety has really taken ahold of my life and I spend a lot of my time alone. I can converse with old friends, but talking to new people one on one is - for some reason - extremely stressful for me. :confused: Anyway! …

In BC my sister joined a guild that she dragged me along to, and I met a Rogue there named Airianna. She was only like 20 at the time, and joked that one day she’d have a daughter named after her WoW character. XD

Anyway, we used to talk on Vent a lot. She was hilarious. She and my sister would talk on the phone almost every day. She added me to FB, all that.

She quit WoW some years later, and I used to annoy her to come back on FB. I kept up with her there. And, well, she DID actually get married and have a daughter … named Arianna. :joy:

She LOVED that kid, man. Would post videos all the time. It should be known that the doctors told her she probably couldn’t have kids due to a surgery gone wrong when she was 19, but she proved them wrong.

Anyway, four years later she got pregnant again. This time with twins. She was so happy… But the doctors told her she would likely die if she carried them to term. But being the mother she was, she did it. She delivered them, held them, named them, and loved them with all her heart … and then died a day later. :frowning:

My sister called me bawling. This has been about 10 years ago now. I still keep track of her daughter’s birthday. I’m going to contact her when she’s 18 and be like, “Hey, you don’t know me, but I knew your mom on WoW. I have a bunch of funny stories involving her if you’d like to hear them.”

3.5 years to go.
(I would like to add that I’m also a woman btw, so this isn’t some stalker creepy thing. XD I see how that could sound weird coming from a guy. XP)

Anyway, there have been a few more. Some I still talk to on Discord occasionally. It’s crazy how social MMOs can actually be, and how a video game can change your real life.

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One of my longest friendships is with someone from Warcraft III.

None from WoW, though.

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I’ve met a lot of cool people in game over the years that I never had the chance to meet and sadly none of them play anymore and I’ve lost contact with them. I’ve also played this game with a bunch IRL friends who no longer play. I’m the last holdout of 19 years worth of memories and fun.