I met my husband online, through World of Warcraft.
Let's start at the very beginning...
I started playing World of Warcraft when I first moved away to college. One of my high school friends convinced me to play with him as a way for us to "hang out" even though we were hours apart from each other. For those of you who don't know, World of Warcraft is an online game with thousands (millions?) of players who each play a character and can interact with each other within the world. I could take my character, meet my friends character, and run off and kill monsters with each other. We can chat with each other, or use a voice chat program like Skype, Ventrilo, or Mumble to talk to each other while playing. It was an awesome way to spend my weekends in college when my roommate went home to visit her friends and family and I was in my dorm alone. Helped with some of the homesickness for sure!
Raid Group; My Warrior (Loralae)
I played the game all the way through college, and by the time I was a junior I was getting pretty competitive in the game and played with a 25 person group at scheduled times several times a week. Because you play with the same people a lot, you really get to know each other and often times we would talk to each other and play outside of those scheduled times too. One of the people I played with invited me to get into voice chat with him and some of his friends to "hang out" in the game. My future husband happened to be in the voice chat too!
We hit it off immediately and began chatting on a regular basis. We exchanged phone numbers so we could text each other during the day. Eventually we were talking on Skype all night long, even as I was studying or working on homework. I made plans to visit him during fall break my senior year. We spent that Christmas together, he came to my college graduation... and the rest is history!
This is quite a confession for me. Most of the time when people ask how we met, I just say we met online. Some people probably think its crazy to meet in a computer game, but its actually pretty common. The best part about it is that we automatically had something in common -- we both loved to play World of Warcraft.
We have been together for five years now, and we both still play, although not as much as we used to because of other responsibilities. We have always set our computers up right next to each other so we can play together. Sometimes we will watch a movie or watch T.V. as we play, or one of us will be playing while the other is working on something else. We are able to talk to each other and discuss happenings in the game -- believe it or not there is a lot of drama sometimes! -- and are able to connect with each other even though we are playing in a virtual world. Those who don't play will likely not believe or understand it, but it works for us.
We have expanded our horizons a bit since we first met. We no longer play just World of Warcraft, but also other Blizzard games (Diablo, Heroes of the Storm, and Hearthstone), other mmo's (Aion, Rift, Wildstar), and other computer games (League of Legends, Flyff). We have had several video game consoles, but never played on them much.
We are forunate enough to have several "couple" friends to play games with also! We play World of Warcraft with them, but we also get together for game night periodically and play a variety of strategy board games. This is a whole different type of gaming, but involves a lot of the same tactics that we are used to playing. We play board games that involve thought, planning, and strategy -- more than what is required in your average Monopoly or Scrabble game. Some of our favorites are Nuns on the Run, Smallworld, Lords of Waterdeep, and Smash Up.
Shadows over Camelot; Settlers of Catan; Lords of Waterdeep
What types of games do you guys play? Does anyone love relaxing with an mmo like we do?
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