World of Warcraft Community Magazine Issue 7 | Page 75
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always “I enjoy the friendships I
Woot: I agree totally, if it wasn’t
the social interaction. It doesn’t
have within the guild, it’s like a
for MMO’s, I wouldn’t be married
even have to be role play games.
second family to me”. Much like
right now. My wife and I met in
there are Counterstrike teams, or
you said, “I go through a rough
Istaria, I moved from Nottingham
in my old game, Unreal, you meet
time in my life, and I have this
to Devon. We’ve been together for
up on a regular basis whether it’s in
family to help me through it” and
a decade now and married for 8
one room at a lan party or whether
I hear this time and time again
years in October, so without MMO’s
you are spread all over the world.
where someone’s gone through
that would never have happened. I
If someone’s missing, it’s not just
a horrible hardship or something
think the second family aspect of it
that there’s a name missing off the
and this person has been able
is what keeps people coming back
screen. There’s a hole there, and
to get that solace through their
to these games, and back to RPG’s
you want to know why. It’s “What
guild or friends that they have
in general. Not just the MMO’s, but
happened? What went on there?
made online. I think again that
the pen and paper, and the tabletops.
Why weren’t they there on Friday
the community in WoW is so
It’s almost like the regular crew
night?” Sometimes it’s “Oops I forgot
important for a lot of folk because
you meet in a bar every Friday or
and overslept” and sometimes it’s
it gives them that sense of
Saturday. The same faces you see
something truly devastating. If you
security, and home, and family.
over and over again, you wouldn’t
have a really strong community you
have it any other way because it’s
band together and you get each other
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