Comments on: Significant Other

By: Mania

Mania — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:20:38 +0000

Jon: Thanks. :> My husband and I both came into modern MMOs via Asheron’s Call, but I had played many text MUDs before that while he got his start in UO and Trade Wars. We talk about our respective games quite a bit — actually, we rarely argue over money (as most couples supposedly do), but we have had some serious knock-down drag-out verbal fights over game design! *grin* I’m a very strict soloer, whereas he has developed into a grou-oriented player.

GMW: It helps that both of us are … not casual, exactly, but very flexible (even erratic) in our playing time.

Dalben: Personally, I resent being lumped in as a “relationship-type people”. *grin* Just because I’m married doesn’t make me normal.

By: Tomte

Tomte — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:48:32 +0000

My wife abhors WoW, though she loved the South Park episode about it. On the other hand, she speaks a Scandinavian language like I do, and is otherwise a dear. Can’t win ‘em all.

About the survey…being something of a casual player (less than 10 hours a week), I’d have answered the survey differently if I could: “Doesn’t play a lot, but still has a WoW Widow for an SO.”

By: Dallben

Dallben — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:57:34 +0000

I bet this survey is a little skewed… a website run by a husband and wife duo (that publishes cooking recipes related to WoW, lol) is bound to get more hits from relationship-type people, don’t you think?

Great site by the way, it’s my first time here

By: Athryn

Athryn — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:32:07 +0000

My SO and I more or less run a guild now, I kinda took over the reins for recruiting and such after my brother, the GM, went on an extended hiatus. My boyfriend handles the raid leading and such. It works out quite well, in my opinion.

By: Kitty

Kitty — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:46:43 +0000

We are not a WoW couple, however we are a gamer couple. I tried to get him into WoW, but it wasn’t his thing. He really likes his FPS, and I really like MMOs (and RPGs). We sit next to each other with our matching desks, playing video games all night long.

By: Obmulap

Obmulap — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:32:08 +0000

You forgot the other choice: My SO is too busy raiding with her guild to play the game with me.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:32:14 +0000

There needs to be another choice to the poll: I wish I had a significant other to play WoW with I actually broke up with my boyfriend cause I played video games a LOT more than he did. QQ

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:05:31 +0000

My wife has just finished the 10 day trial and we leveled a pair of NE Druids to 10. The trial is over and she has the new wii mario game on its way… we will see if she wants to WoW again. She did ask this weekend to play so maybe it it will become a favorite, she really enjoyed playing cooperatively so I think she will return to WoW. At least she ‘gets it’ now.

Great blog btw.

By: Sherri

Sherri — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:11:02 +0000

I started playing WoW first, and hubby would play on my account when I was not on it. Then he got hooked, and the rest is history. His original characters are still on my account to this day, and have not been touched in almost a year. We now play together nightly, and due to me working and him not, he is on a lot more than me now. I could not imagine our life if one liked and the other did not.

By: Girl Meets WoW

Girl Meets WoW — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 07:56:43 +0000

Nice post, Jon. I’m glad to count myself and The Boy among the growing minority. Generally speaking, I suspect WoW players capable of stringing more than two sentences together are more likely to have significant others, though that doesn’t mean their SO will necessarily play with them.

Mania, that sounds like insanity. I really don’t know what I’d do if The Boy and I became split between two different guilds/servers/games.