Friday, April 8, 2011

WoW Dating

By Glenn P Griffin


Did you know that one in five relationships begin over the internet? Online dating is the trend nowadays. This is due to the dozens of online dating sites where lonely singles with similar interests can meet and mingle. There is also another method available where such people can meet. This method was not designed for this purpose, but more and more people are meeting this way that it's been getting a lot of attention over the past few years.

If you still don't know what method I'm talking about, I'm talking about the extremely famous MMORPG video game World of Warcraft. Just like all other video games, Warcraft at one point was dominated by a legion of male players, but that is beginning to change as the percentage of female players are on the increase. Girls these days are not just into fashion, glamor, and shopping at malls. Women enjoy sitting back on the couch and behind their labtop to log in as their avatar for another session of Warcraft.

World of Warcraft serves its purpose well as a video game, it provides hours of addicting entertainment. Warcraft also has a secondary function as a social network. Players often get together to form their own faction known as guilds. Friendship usually forms within these guilds.

World of Warcraft continues to thrive from a dominant male audience. The ratio of female players though, continue to increase. When interacting with other players, be careful not to mix up the players with the avatars they're controlling. A lot of female avatars are actually controlled by guys, with the reverse being just as true.

Once players of the opposite sex meet, the relationship can really take off and go beyond the Warcraft world. Two players who initially met as their avatars have been known to meet in real life and end up getting married.

There is now even a dating site called World of Datecraft, where devoted Warcraft players can meet the opposite sex with the same devotion.

What was once a simple MMORPG video game has morphed into a cult following. It has become an alternate means for players to explore different ways of meeting people who they can relate to.




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