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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