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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Online Dating vs. WoW?
My radio station was full of interesting topics this morning- especially the claim that if you're looking for love, you should skip online dating and do World of Warcraft.
Apparently the WoW population is more dedicated, younger, and more than 70% of gamers would drive 100+ miles to meet someone they play with online. More than 50% of surveyed players said they'd been attracted to someone they play with who they've never met or even seen pictures of IRL.
Here's more info: http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/online-dating-vs-online-gaming-are-gamers-really-forever-alone-infographic/
So, what say you Niners- possible? Impossible? Not for you? Met your H that way?
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Re: Online Dating vs. WoW?
Hahahaha..... this makes me giggle and get all giddy inside. And I don't even need to read the articles.
Honestly? Playing a MMO with someone is no different than chatting via IM or playing a game over an app. In fact, I would say meeting someone on WoW would be more beneficial because 1) you already know you have something in common, and 2) there are so many social dynamics that are involved with WoW that I think you can really get to know someone if you play together long enough.
The benefit of WoW is that you don't have to deal with crappy dating websites, and you get to know a person rather than look at pictures and read about character traits. If someone is an arse in-game and, for example, ninja-loots, you know this is not someone you want to deal with in person. Plus, the $15 a month for WoW is prolly a helluva lot cheaper than what one would pay for, say, Match.com
BlizzCon in an ideal place for WoW gamers to come together and meet inperson. I mean, here you are playing a game with the same people, working on the same dungeons, fighting the same raids -- of course you're going to want to meet them! I've watched a couple documentaries, and yeah love happens at BlizzCon, man!
It really irks me that there's such a bad stigma attached to people who play WoW -- we're not all Cheeto-nomming fanboys. In fact, most of us are successful businesstypes who just enjoy the game responsibly. GASP!
But anyway -- no, I did not meet Chris while playing WoW, but we both have been playing MMOs for a while, and if our paths had crossed at that time, who knows? We still play together, and we enjoy it. As I mentioned before, we see it as a cheap date because we're together and doing something we like! Beats dinner and a movie!
updated 10.03.12
MB I think of you all the time when I hear WoW- I know two CEO's that spend their time playing as well as plenty of Engineers I work with. They do drive for gamer parties and most of them are pretty nice.
As for online dating- pre-Mark, I tried it. It was terrible. I found a million guys who seriously creeped me out and stopped after two dates. I happened to run into Mark as a fluke and Thank the LORD I did. I have friends who do online dating and I feel it doesn't get them anywhere.
I don't usually tell people this because they look at me like I'm really weird, but DH and I met through an online game. DH was a GameMaster (programmer, primarily) and I was a customer service rep and player of a text-based RPG game. We had played together and talked online for years, and met in person at the yearly convention (like Blizzcon, but for this company). We hung out there for three years running before deciding to date. In the meantime we would talk on AIM and in-game. It allowed me to get to know his personality, his creative side, and we would have really in-depth conversations about everything under the sun. The times we would see each other in person, he was always very easy to be around because even though we had hardly ever "met", we knew each other very well.
I still keep in touch with quite a few people I met playing that game, and a few of them I would consider to be very close friends. The only reason we gave it up was because we couldn't keep up with the time committment for the "job" portions we had accumulated.
Congrats to both my TTC buddies, Amberley18 and sb2006 on their beautiful babies!
I know a lot of people have met in game. J and I were together before we gamed, but it definitely kept our relationship together once he started playing. It was the only way I could get time with him for awhile.
We did make a lot of friends through the game, and actually all met up at Blizzcon. You spend a ton of time with the same people day after day (because it is addicting, there is no way you can play every once in awhile) and get to know them well.
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