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Real Life friends versus In Game friends

Discussion in 'General MMORPG Discussion' started by AthenaEntendu, Aug 30, 2015.

  1. AthenaEntendu

    AthenaEntendu Member

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    I'm interested to know how everyone else views their in game friends as opposed to their real life friends. Here is my perspective: we are a family that lives about 3 hours from our closest relatives. Our only 'friends' that live near us are people we know from work. Most people don't understand that between work and then family obligations with our children, we don't really want to go hang out with a bunch of people when we could be having a date night instead with that very precious (and rare) child free time. As such, we have come to feel 'closer' to our in game friends than we do our real life friends. We are more free to just be who we are, and they have no expectation of us except to play the game and throw more DPS out as the case may be. Anyone else relate to this?
     
    #1 AthenaEntendu, Aug 30, 2015
  2. West

    West Well-Known Member
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    I was homeschooled for a lot of my life growing up because my family was poor and because the public school that we were zoned for was awful, so I ended up making a lot of friends online. I think that you're just as capable of forging meaningful bonds with people online as you are with people in person.
     
    #2 West, Aug 30, 2015
  3. Zimbitt

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    There is a line between the two, they can be one and the same but usually I keep them as online friends and then there is the real life friends I will playt with sometimes.
     
    #3 Zimbitt, Aug 30, 2015
  4. tinybutnotfangless

    tinybutnotfangless Well-Known Member
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    I make no distinction between the two. People are either people I can connect with or not and everything in between.

    So during conversation, I never say, "My real life friend..." or "My online friend..." Wouldn't my friend who plays WoW with me be a part of my reality? What differentiates between "Real life" and "non Real life?" It's a silly unnecessary categorization.
     
    #4 tinybutnotfangless, Aug 31, 2015
  5. Fozz

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    Same thing to me. Many of the people I have met and played with online I will never meet in person, but that doesn't mean I don't consider them friends. There are cases where I've actually bonded with people more over a game than in real life. For example, during WOTLK, I ran with a small guild for a few years and we eventually downed the LK together. That was a pretty special moment between the 10 of us.
     
    #5 Fozz, Sep 1, 2015
  6. ISKMogul

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    I have a core group of friends that I game with from time to time, but as we collectively age that's getting harder and harder. I find myself turning to new groups more often to replace the social element of gaming as other friends fall out of touch. I don't expect the people I play with in games like EVE to be the kind of lifelong friends that my core group is, but it's nice to have common ground to discuss whether we are gaming or not. Common interests can develop into deeper friendships as well, so it's generally worth it to treat all your friends equally regardless of circumstances. As such, I don't tend to distinguish between groups that exist online or not.
     
    #6 ISKMogul, Sep 2, 2015
  7. moneyman

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    In my opinion it is good to have friends from many sources. Personally I have friends in both sources - real life and in game friends. It is good entertainment to play online games especially with your real life although I have in addition friends in game that I have never met face to face.
     
    #7 moneyman, Sep 2, 2015
  8. Kyler

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    I don't think there's much difference to be honest. One is done virtually when you're talking to an "actual" person, except you do not necessarily need to see them, the other is absolutely the same, except it is physical so there is interaction physically.
     
    #8 Kyler, Sep 3, 2015
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