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Meeting and playing with people in your area?
Deathlevi
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What do you guys think?
I live in Los Angeles, it's a world class city with millions of people. I play WoW. Surely 20 other people on the Westside play as well. Conceptually, I'd love the idea of meeting people who live in my city and play. Have them all come over to my house drink and eat. Or even make real friendships that can be acted on like going to Coachella together.
I know in Europe there are internet cafes that make this much more likely.
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I love it, I do it here in Miami with people I've met along the way at work, school, my other social groups, etc. Although, I think it may be less intimidating or forced to do it more organically through daily interactions vs traditional recruiting on forums or ingame.
Maybe start a meetup group in your area for WoW gamers or something more event based to recruit social gamers who want to be part of the community for the RL social aspect.
Still may take a little while but I'd say stick with it, it will be much more enjoyable for you when it comes together. Something about losing the online anonymity makes people much more agreeable lol. Plus being able to game get together from time to time builds some really strong bonds.
No idea why it isn't more common for location based guilds, it is awesome
It is easier to play with people that you share common game preferences and interests than with people you share only your geographical location with.
That is also why often guild who have played one MMORPG in in the past have problem of finding themself a new MMORPG to migrate to - people change so some people want one game, other people want other, one people want be more hardcore, others prefer to stay causal (or other way around) and so on.
I often see those kind of guilds either hopping around games or having it's members to split into in-guild multiple smaller groups and playing multiple mmorpg's or games instead of one mmorpg like in the past.
For long-term experience it is usually better to form/join a new guild.
Anyway - it a populous big city/region it should not be that big of a problem to found a geographical guild that is composed of people sharing similar attitude towards the game. In less populous regions it might be a problem though.
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Well it seems a cool idea,EVERY single person i have seen asked similar calls it creepy and all say no.If you watch any streamer whom most reside in the Cally area,they are pretty much loners,even the hottest chicks don't even have BF's.
I find the online gaming world a tad odd when comes to acting like real life,it seems most have a totally different perspective of real life,likely because they have been holed up in their room alone for so long.I mean seriously is it more creepy to meet an internet gamer and hang out or more creepy to go into a bar full of drunks who's only thought is to get you in bed?So ya almost all of the internet gamer's have imo their own creepy thoughts and don't understand what making friends is all about.
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Maybe. There is a difference between meeting someone and getting a sense of who they are (drunk or not) in real life as opposed to just reading a text from them.
Not to say you can tell everything about a person upon first meeting but if given the choice I would rather meet them in person first before I invite them out or to my home.
Though I usually don't get drunk women hitting on me at bars. And I'm not sure I'd be going out with someone who feels the need to get drunk.
I would agree that some "gamers" are socially inept but there are also socially inept people who aren't gamers.
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Well you know you get old when you start a sentence like this, but "Back in the day" that's the only way we did things. We actually had to lug out PCs (which were the size of semi trucks) back and forth to friends houses! 10 miles! In 3 feet of snow! Uphill both ways!
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I dated this chic a few years back who was a "budding" you tube sensation and for the most part this girl was basically a complete narcissistic attention whore, almost to the point that everything she did, she had to film on camera so she could later pic it apart...
I think what happens is these chics end up being so enamoured with themselves that the need for a companion is tertiary and really not even a basic need. They are high all the time on themselves. The thought that if they have a BF they will no longer be the apple of their followers eye... It is a completely unnatural phenomenon...
Needless to say, after I had my way with her a few times I couldn't stand to be around her anymore... Who knows, there's probably a video of me tooling her somewhere out there... friggin cameras were everywhere.
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Gaming is Dirt Cheap compared to this...
Haha I remember my first "portable" pc was a 40 lb Compaq with a triple-width strap so you could lug it around. And yep, that's what we did.
I've used the website "meetup.com" in the past, and met some local people this way in gaming related activities (although I've kinda lost contact).
I don't think it works too well outside of major cities though.
About 15 years ago the majority of the online gaming I did was out of internet cafe's that were usually packed with other people ranging from the mid teens all the way up to old retired guys who had nothing better to do, all of us playing all kinds of games. Sometimes we'd all join up and play stuff "in house" only where all of us would get on the LAN and just have a good time.
I met a decent number of my long time friends this way. I was a groomsman at one of their weddings, I've been to an others cottage a few times. We still hang out to this day, grab drinks once a week, I even worked with a couple of them at one point for a bit.
As kids in high school we'd all head into the city core after the day was done to sit there and game and just hang out. Later as we got older we did less of the gaming and more of the other social activities like visiting one another or hitting the patio and having beers during the warm months. It's typically what we do now after work, or when family priorities are taken care of and we get some free time.
I am not at all opposed to meeting some people whom I play games with, however I think that a lot of the current gamers wouldn't be quite as interested as you'd like to believe, though I wish it were to the contrary.
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God no. Really. No. I've hated this idea since I first started playing games with people on the old Bulletin Board Systems many, many years ago. I have my real life and I keep the online life well apart from it, and always will.
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Lol, my wife and I agree!