Comments on: Love and MMORPGs http://www.epicslant.com/2010/04/love-and-mmorpgs/ MMORPG design, raiding, and guild leadership Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:50:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gabi http://www.epicslant.com/2010/04/love-and-mmorpgs/comment-page-1/#comment-3627 Gabi Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:26:46 +0000 http://www.epicslant.com/?p=2101#comment-3627 If you want to read success stories about people who have met mr or ms Right in MMORPGs - including my story - have a look on my blog 'MMO Couples': The old version: http://www.mmocouples.blogspot.com The new version: http://www.mmocouples.wordpress.com To answer your question at the end of your article: yes :) With warm regards, Gabi If you want to read success stories about people who have met mr or ms Right in MMORPGs – including my story – have a look on my blog ‘MMO Couples’:

The old version:
http://www.mmocouples.blogspot.com

The new version:
http://www.mmocouples.wordpress.com

To answer your question at the end of your article: yes :)

With warm regards,
Gabi

]]> By: Tesh http://www.epicslant.com/2010/04/love-and-mmorpgs/comment-page-1/#comment-3201 Tesh Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:34:33 +0000 http://www.epicslant.com/?p=2101#comment-3201 I think it's possible, but you're missing a layer of interaction if you're only dealing digitally. Those people on the other end of the text conversation *are* real people (as easy as it is to sometimes forget), and the interaction is real... but the anonymity of the web means that masks and personas are easier to maintain. It's easier to see through that sort of thing "live", as it were. That's more a matter of degree, though, and speaking more to friendships than anything else. As to "love", well, that's perhaps best tackled by philosophers and poets, but I'll just note that at some level, love tends to require more commitment than a digital relationship. I think it’s possible, but you’re missing a layer of interaction if you’re only dealing digitally. Those people on the other end of the text conversation *are* real people (as easy as it is to sometimes forget), and the interaction is real… but the anonymity of the web means that masks and personas are easier to maintain. It’s easier to see through that sort of thing “live”, as it were.

That’s more a matter of degree, though, and speaking more to friendships than anything else.

As to “love”, well, that’s perhaps best tackled by philosophers and poets, but I’ll just note that at some level, love tends to require more commitment than a digital relationship.

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