I had a similar situation where I ended meeting a someone from my guild in college. We never knew who were were in game until we happened to talk about WoW one day and realized we played together all the time.
i've had a very similar moment of realizing how close i was to a fellow gamer in an mmo, we noticed that we both got a lag spike at the same time during a raid, and asked where we were, found out we were in the same city, about 2 blocks away from each other lol. met up for beers a few times since then. its a small world
I have a friend like that. I lost my leg at 18 in 01 and he was coming back from Iraq. we played 2s and raided together for 6 years, I seen pics of each other family and what not. still talk to him even though he has no time anymore to play wow. and we still haven't met face to face
i get so emotional when i see people who love this game as i do, who met the game like i did, and who felt alone in the online world just because being the first on having online friends in your whole school, just like I did.
Naaaaw... It made me tear up. 😀I've met a lot of friends via WOW too. Some that I lost contact with, some where the contact is briefly, and a bunch that became really good friends. I was nothing near a kid when I started to play but 30+ and a mum. I have wow friends who have seen my son grow up from a toddler to an adult. We've had guild meetings in my house with around 30 ppl traveling to Sweden from all over Europe. Amazing memories.
I remember slagging one of my mates because he liked to play as little Elves, he got me a trial on release and i gave it a shot, that was 2005 and i still play to this day.
Most of the friends I have today were and are playing WoW. When it came out it really did open the world to people who probably would have never had those opportunities.
There was a real sense of community at WoWs peak. Remember going to an all-night diner with friends after I got out of a raid and there being multiple tables that I heard people talking about the WoW session they had just taken a break from. You could walk up to a stranger and ask, "What faction, what server?" and they would often snap out an almost militaristic answer.
I so remember the early days of WoW, it was a great time that will never some again. I had previously played an MMORPG before WoW came out so I had a head start in that regard. DAOC (Dark Age of Camelot) was my first experience into the MMORPG world and that game was a first love as far as online gaming. I have friends that Ive never met face to face from playing that game and we still talk and play games to this day! We often reminisce and laugh for hours about our many years spent in that world. Then we all moved to WoW when it launched and continued playing there for many years.
Made so many good friendships that would likely never have happened if we didn't discover early on that we both played WoW. Even just having that shared experience is enough to know you're going to get on really well.
Found out the druid I had been playing with for over a year went to the same high school as me. I was a senior while he was a freshman. Turns out we lived 10 minutes away from each other. Crazy how things like that work out.
I was introduced to it from a friend of mine from my Apartment complex, we met because my brother was partying with his mom and so when they'd party she'd have us play together... and eventually he showed me WoW and got me a free trial and I played it on his computer, and I really enjoyed it... but... it wasn't something that hooked me, it wasn't something that I got and played, not until he told me about the RTS Warcraft, and I knew I loved RTS games as that was practically all I played at the time, I got Warcraft III played the shit out of it and fell absolutely in love with the story, from that moment I was hooked on WoW... I have been playing for 18 years now... ... not super consistently, I didn't play really at all during WoD mostly due to my own health issues and lack of ability to pay for it. I played-ish through BFA and gave up early on Shadowlands... The singular thing that kept me from giving up the game the thing that kept me coming back WAS the story... This is one thing Blizzard has failed time and again to adapt in one form or another, the recent anime style video for Alleria indicates that an anime style telling of the story would be super fuckin worth it... because telling the story through such an easily accessed medium would grow their player base in WoW, and keep people coming back even if they take a break... not to mention there is YEARS and YEARS of stories to tell, I have the series of books up to the Shadowlands pre release book it's the only one I haven't read... I find it absolutely obnoxious that they haven't capitalized on this, it is an investment that would pay off 10 fold in the long run if they did it right, have Chris Metzen the head of the story to ensure that any changes to the story are still true to lore, and the story itself... because a poor adaptation would be a true failure and a wasted investment.
I played with a druid for about 6 months before we found out that she was my friend's girlfriend, he had moved to another province a couple years earlier. It was pretty wild.
Funnily enough, my Guild in World of Warcraft for its first 6 years or so was made up entirely of people from my hometown. xD We were based out of an internet cafe my dad ran, and we'd regularly get together to hold raids in person at the cafe.
Not related to Wow, but still remember on RuneScape as a kid meeting a girl and come to find out she went to my same middle school. We played online together all the time and then eventually got each other’s number. After that we ended up dating till like junior year of high school. Was wild to think about.
Thought I'd share my absurd story of meeting a guy I know twice in-game. So I'm flying through Azeroth back in the day, (about 8 years ago) was mining or so, and I flew through the Badlands which is literally a place I had never questet or been ever, probably was on my way elsewhere. I look down to the right, there is a troll hunter attacking some mobs, was kind of curious as the server was quite dead in general and I thought no one would level there. His name was Gizmo, I flew past him then about 5 seconds later realized hm, that's a name one of the friends of my older brother uses (though not a too random name to come across as others use it). Curious in nature I flew back and just hit him with a shot in the dark; "You don't happen to be Claude?" "Yeah, who are you?". There we are, in a zone he and I had never been in before, mid day in the middle of a work week, on a dead server and maybe 500 meters away from each other IRL. What are the chances of us being on the same server at all? Think it was like 30 EU servers at that time and no merged ones yet like it is now. What are the chances we would cross paths and I would actually stop to whisper him? What are the chances he chose Gizmo (his only character out of many with that name), it's just absurd! Then maybe a year or two later I play CS GO and que a map one evening I had never played before called Season which has since been removed. Keep in mind, a match is found within like 5 seconds, and a match lasts up to an hour and there are millions of people playing at the same time so the chances of bumping into someone familiar is close to zero. So mid game the other team starts calling cheats and I'm trying to tell them that it looks like fair play as far as I could see. Then I look closer at one of their names and profile picture, it was of an asian girl and her name, and I was like hmm Claude loved anything to do with asia (thats how far of a reach it was) then I asked are you from Norway? He and the others said jokingly "Come to ***" and I answered "I'm already there", which they didn't believe at first. I soon learned that their entire team was friends of his I knew from a class above me at school we had all gone to. After that we and the others in that match have played almost every day for like 5 years before Claude moved to Japan. No one plays the map Season, if they or I waited 1 second with the que I would be with one out of hundreds if not thousands of other match pools. And by far the most absurd again, that I happened to ask (I have never asked anyone before or after these two times, 2 out of 2 correct) and if I didn't we would have played against each other and no one would know. What are the chances? 😁
That is insane. The chance of meeting anyone IRL in any game is astronomically low, but the same person in two different games is nuts. Thank you for sharing!
Met a guy years back who knew my ex girlfriend, she was VERY famous in the local area because she got around. Years later, met another guy in-game who just so happened to live in the exact same town as me and was in fact not very far. Months later, met ANOTHER guy near me in the same town and everything who also played and we met in-game. I've never met any of them in-person because I'm introverted as hell lmao
met a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend I had played with in Among Us at my Bachelor campus. Didn't know until I was sitting next to him in class and saw he had the same Discord friend server as me. Told me he probably got there through an Among Us game. He later gave me tips on girls, and now I'm engaged xD
I always wanted to make friends in game or be a part of a guild. That seems cool. It's so difficult though in games like WoW because everyone is so elitist. I'm a casual player and never able to do end game content. If you don't have specific gear you are treated as if you have leprosy.
@@16Vagabond I mean, he's a fairly important character in House of the Dragon ( Alyn of Hull ) and has had big roles in video games like Bayek in Assassin's Creed. House of the Dragon is one of the biggest shows in the world, he's on his way there.
The reason is so that it's more immediately in your field of view, as in if your at 5% HP and about to die it's easier to notice that if your health bar is right next to your character model rather than out towards the edge of the screen. Traditionally the players health bar and their targets health bar were in the far upper lefthand side of the screen. Once mods or "addons" started to become popular people started moving as much important stuff closer to the center of the screen as possible.
I had a similar situation where I ended meeting a someone from my guild in college. We never knew who were were in game until we happened to talk about WoW one day and realized we played together all the time.
Man WoW was truly something special back in the beginning years
i've had a very similar moment of realizing how close i was to a fellow gamer in an mmo, we noticed that we both got a lag spike at the same time during a raid, and asked where we were, found out we were in the same city, about 2 blocks away from each other lol. met up for beers a few times since then. its a small world
I have a friend like that. I lost my leg at 18 in 01 and he was coming back from Iraq. we played 2s and raided together for 6 years, I seen pics of each other family and what not. still talk to him even though he has no time anymore to play wow. and we still haven't met face to face
i get so emotional when i see people who love this game as i do, who met the game like i did, and who felt alone in the online world just because being the first on having online friends in your whole school, just like I did.
Naaaaw... It made me tear up. 😀I've met a lot of friends via WOW too. Some that I lost contact with, some where the contact is briefly, and a bunch that became really good friends. I was nothing near a kid when I started to play but 30+ and a mum. I have wow friends who have seen my son grow up from a toddler to an adult. We've had guild meetings in my house with around 30 ppl traveling to Sweden from all over Europe. Amazing memories.
I remember slagging one of my mates because he liked to play as little Elves, he got me a trial on release and i gave it a shot, that was 2005 and i still play to this day.
Most of the friends I have today were and are playing WoW. When it came out it really did open the world to people who probably would have never had those opportunities.
the odds of meeting his friend that way. amazing.
What a great actor too! Very scene between Alyn and Corlis are impeccable.
There was a real sense of community at WoWs peak. Remember going to an all-night diner with friends after I got out of a raid and there being multiple tables that I heard people talking about the WoW session they had just taken a break from. You could walk up to a stranger and ask, "What faction, what server?" and they would often snap out an almost militaristic answer.
I so remember the early days of WoW, it was a great time that will never some again. I had previously played an MMORPG before WoW came out so I had a head start in that regard. DAOC (Dark Age of Camelot) was my first experience into the MMORPG world and that game was a first love as far as online gaming. I have friends that Ive never met face to face from playing that game and we still talk and play games to this day! We often reminisce and laugh for hours about our many years spent in that world. Then we all moved to WoW when it launched and continued playing there for many years.
Made so many good friendships that would likely never have happened if we didn't discover early on that we both played WoW. Even just having that shared experience is enough to know you're going to get on really well.
Found out the druid I had been playing with for over a year went to the same high school as me. I was a senior while he was a freshman. Turns out we lived 10 minutes away from each other. Crazy how things like that work out.
I was introduced to it from a friend of mine from my Apartment complex, we met because my brother was partying with his mom and so when they'd party she'd have us play together... and eventually he showed me WoW and got me a free trial and I played it on his computer, and I really enjoyed it... but... it wasn't something that hooked me, it wasn't something that I got and played, not until he told me about the RTS Warcraft, and I knew I loved RTS games as that was practically all I played at the time, I got Warcraft III played the shit out of it and fell absolutely in love with the story, from that moment I was hooked on WoW... I have been playing for 18 years now... ... not super consistently, I didn't play really at all during WoD mostly due to my own health issues and lack of ability to pay for it. I played-ish through BFA and gave up early on Shadowlands...
The singular thing that kept me from giving up the game the thing that kept me coming back WAS the story... This is one thing Blizzard has failed time and again to adapt in one form or another, the recent anime style video for Alleria indicates that an anime style telling of the story would be super fuckin worth it... because telling the story through such an easily accessed medium would grow their player base in WoW, and keep people coming back even if they take a break... not to mention there is YEARS and YEARS of stories to tell, I have the series of books up to the Shadowlands pre release book it's the only one I haven't read... I find it absolutely obnoxious that they haven't capitalized on this, it is an investment that would pay off 10 fold in the long run if they did it right, have Chris Metzen the head of the story to ensure that any changes to the story are still true to lore, and the story itself... because a poor adaptation would be a true failure and a wasted investment.
Felt like a Step Brothers (movie) moment "Did we JUST become Best FRIENdS?1"
That's an awesome story
Dope story!
I played with a druid for about 6 months before we found out that she was my friend's girlfriend, he had moved to another province a couple years earlier. It was pretty wild.
" ONE OF US , ONE OF US , ONE OF USE "
wonderful story!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Abubakar's done some great work in the D and D actual play series "Critical Role," if you're into that.
Funnily enough, my Guild in World of Warcraft for its first 6 years or so was made up entirely of people from my hometown. xD We were based out of an internet cafe my dad ran, and we'd regularly get together to hold raids in person at the cafe.
awesome story :)
Don't let this man touch anything, he will destroy them.
Not related to Wow, but still remember on RuneScape as a kid meeting a girl and come to find out she went to my same middle school. We played online together all the time and then eventually got each other’s number. After that we ended up dating till like junior year of high school. Was wild to think about.
A WOOLWORTH'S!? Sir what the actual....does the UK still have Woolworth's? I Haven't been in a Woolworth's since the very early 90s.
Thought I'd share my absurd story of meeting a guy I know twice in-game.
So I'm flying through Azeroth back in the day, (about 8 years ago) was mining or so, and I flew through the Badlands which is literally a place I had never questet or been ever, probably was on my way elsewhere. I look down to the right, there is a troll hunter attacking some mobs, was kind of curious as the server was quite dead in general and I thought no one would level there. His name was Gizmo, I flew past him then about 5 seconds later realized hm, that's a name one of the friends of my older brother uses (though not a too random name to come across as others use it). Curious in nature I flew back and just hit him with a shot in the dark; "You don't happen to be Claude?" "Yeah, who are you?". There we are, in a zone he and I had never been in before, mid day in the middle of a work week, on a dead server and maybe 500 meters away from each other IRL. What are the chances of us being on the same server at all? Think it was like 30 EU servers at that time and no merged ones yet like it is now. What are the chances we would cross paths and I would actually stop to whisper him? What are the chances he chose Gizmo (his only character out of many with that name), it's just absurd!
Then maybe a year or two later I play CS GO and que a map one evening I had never played before called Season which has since been removed. Keep in mind, a match is found within like 5 seconds, and a match lasts up to an hour and there are millions of people playing at the same time so the chances of bumping into someone familiar is close to zero. So mid game the other team starts calling cheats and I'm trying to tell them that it looks like fair play as far as I could see. Then I look closer at one of their names and profile picture, it was of an asian girl and her name, and I was like hmm Claude loved anything to do with asia (thats how far of a reach it was) then I asked are you from Norway? He and the others said jokingly "Come to ***" and I answered "I'm already there", which they didn't believe at first. I soon learned that their entire team was friends of his I knew from a class above me at school we had all gone to. After that we and the others in that match have played almost every day for like 5 years before Claude moved to Japan.
No one plays the map Season, if they or I waited 1 second with the que I would be with one out of hundreds if not thousands of other match pools. And by far the most absurd again, that I happened to ask (I have never asked anyone before or after these two times, 2 out of 2 correct) and if I didn't we would have played against each other and no one would know.
What are the chances? 😁
That is insane. The chance of meeting anyone IRL in any game is astronomically low, but the same person in two different games is nuts.
Thank you for sharing!
Met a guy years back who knew my ex girlfriend, she was VERY famous in the local area because she got around. Years later, met another guy in-game who just so happened to live in the exact same town as me and was in fact not very far. Months later, met ANOTHER guy near me in the same town and everything who also played and we met in-game. I've never met any of them in-person because I'm introverted as hell lmao
This dude is very relatable
He is a really nice guy
Sometimes you have to go to a fictional game world to meet your next door neighbor
awww
meeting online friends is always weird when it comes to names - do you address each other by nick names or irl names? It always awkward
met a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend I had played with in Among Us at my Bachelor campus. Didn't know until I was sitting next to him in class and saw he had the same Discord friend server as me. Told me he probably got there through an Among Us game.
He later gave me tips on girls, and now I'm engaged xD
Really shouldn’t have put he was my neighbor in the thumbnail, kinda spoiled that awesome story.
Ironic that this is the top thumbnail comment of you spoiling it 😂
awesome
Awesome interview but curious what is the interviewers shirt?
I think it's the guns from Halo or Destiny
@@yaboirairai Awesome thanks!
I met my neighbour when his dog shat on my grass. Abubakar's story is better.
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I always wanted to make friends in game or be a part of a guild. That seems cool. It's so difficult though in games like WoW because everyone is so elitist. I'm a casual player and never able to do end game content. If you don't have specific gear you are treated as if you have leprosy.
Easy fix for it is to get gear then find chill non elitist people to play with.
really fascinating that this actor had almost exactly the same childhood as me, i always assumed actors exclusively had gay sex and did drugs
he's an actor but he's not "hollyweird star of fame" level of actor
way different
@@16Vagabond I mean, he's a fairly important character in House of the Dragon ( Alyn of Hull ) and has had big roles in video games like Bayek in Assassin's Creed. House of the Dragon is one of the biggest shows in the world, he's on his way there.
Why do all the players keep their face/helth right in middle like that? you CAN move it whereever you want
The reason is so that it's more immediately in your field of view, as in if your at 5% HP and about to die it's easier to notice that if your health bar is right next to your character model rather than out towards the edge of the screen. Traditionally the players health bar and their targets health bar were in the far upper lefthand side of the screen. Once mods or "addons" started to become popular people started moving as much important stuff closer to the center of the screen as possible.
Sounds like KSI lol
Dear.God.Those teeth are disturbing me.