Just noticed it’s a necro. Wdym by current situation? Covid?
They are splitting
I’ve done it, and not just once.
I say this as someone who has gone through all sorts of dating, both in person and online - reality is people can find love anywhere. It just depends on how willing they are to close the distance if it’s an online thing, just like it’d depend on people to put in effort in their physical ones as well.
I don’t judge. If someone finds happiness, then they found happiness. Good enough.
Well, divorce is another whole topic. A lot of people aren’t suited for marriage life but find out too late.
This thread is a necro, but whatever, it’s got a handful of new comments.
OP seems to be talking about things like the classic Runescape “buying gf” (at least, when it actually happened, not just the meme). You know, the stupid crap 10 year olds do where they’re basically just poorly roleplaying what they think a relationship is for a week or so before they get bored and drop it.
I think it’s a little disingenuous to refer to that as “online dating”. It’s really not. It’s just kids being dumb, for the most part. Which is fine.
As for finding an actual long-distance relationship through WoW? Totally possible. It should never be the primary purpose for playing the game. That becomes creepy basically instantly. If your only purpose in talking to someone is because you might one day bang them, you’re kind of a terrible person. But crap happens. You meet people. You click. You take it outside of the game. If it still seems like it might be a good thing, you take it outside of the internet. Cool. That can lead to long-term things for many people, even if it started in WoW. But WoW is still not a dating site.
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You havent done real online dating unless you’ve gotten married at lumby church in runescape
It’s entirely possible, and sometimes it even works out. Met someone in Cata and ended up moving across the country for almost 4 years. She ended up finding someone else, and while it was pretty scummy and awful at the time, I don’t regret any of my decisions. Just be careful!
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Don’t do it. Like 80% of WoW is dudes pretending to be women.
My cousin ‘dated’ a dude from our guild back in WotLK. She lives here in Florida and he was from Alaska but lived in Seattle. Not sure how long it went on. He came here to meet her (I met him too) and later she flew out to spend a about a month with him. She’s a high school teacher and went in the summer.
If your not gonna meet irl, I don’t get edating.
But, go to Moon Guard. Ppl edate all the time there. I knew one dude who had a wife/side chick for each of his accounts.
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If your not gonna meet irl, I don’t get edating.
you’re*, but I definitely agree. If it leads nowhere, it’s pretty pointless.
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Wait. We did get a necromancer class?
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I have always thought that Blizzard should have an 18+ dating site.
Oh wow, I’m sorry that happened. At least you took the chance and hopefully had good memories. Online dating is super hard, and there’s a bunch of stories I seen (Reddit lol) where tons got married, had kids and other stuff just from meeting on WoW. Pretty cool and cute imo. 
Love can be found anywhere!
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I thought that’s what the marriage and divorce threads were for?
…hic!
I don’t date, but assuming I did I wouldn’t date someone I haven’t seen ESPECIALLY nowadays when people like to reassign their gender at will.
When I was a teenager
Nope
I think it would be great to meet someone on WoW, since they would have the same interest as me and we’d have a lot to bond over. Distance wouldn’t matter to me, if we really loved each other, we’d find a way to eventually be together.
Only obstacle is that I’m a trans guy and realistically, not in very high demand. I’m a guy, but I was born female. But even if I never find anyone on WoW, that doesn’t really matter to me, making friends is just as cool. I plan to play this game for a long time, so who knows what will happen?
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Oh wow, I’m sorry that happened. At least you took the chance and hopefully had good memories. Online dating is super hard, and there’s a bunch of stories I seen (Reddit lol) where tons got married, had kids and other stuff just from meeting on WoW. Pretty cool and cute imo.Love can be found anywhere!
Life happens. I don’t regret anything because I did end up learning a lot about life and myself along that journey, as well as met/worked with a lot of cool people. The ending to that story is way more messed up (and definitely doesn’t belong on here), but you are correct: Honestly when it comes to anything relating to, well, meeting people…anything is possible. 
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Depends on age I imagine. Making friends of any kind over social media seems odd to me as I was not born into it. For those that don’t have memories of what it was like to make relationships before social media I imagine it is far easier, and or more normal.
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Those are exceptions to the rule.
Dating in America right now is the worst its ever been(statistically).
Go look up Tinder studies, women respond to less than 5% of men.
30% of men in America age 18-30 reported not having sex once in the past year(pre covid statistics, probably worse now).
Once again things have never been worse in terms of dating/marriage, all backed up by hard evidence.
I think telling people otherwise is disingenuous and paints a rosy picture that simply isn’t born out in reality for the vast majority of people.
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