8 thoughts on ““Bill” from Azeroth”

  2. LOL People that don’t play MMOs have no concept of the magnitude and vastness of these worlds. I gave up trying. The queer looks over my excited and animated explantions has made me MMO-discussions-with-the-non-MMOer-shy.

  3. The opposite is also true.

    “Oh, so you play WoW too?”

    “Yeah, lets play together sometimes!”

    “It would be nice, I’m on Kargath, you?”

    “I play on Malfurion.”

    “Well, nevermind, I guess.”

  5. Questions like these aren’t limited to MMOs, any sort of relation to an unknown community sparks this question. I got similar questions while in a high school of 4000 and now working at an internationally known company with nearly 3000 at my location.

  6. The opposite is also true.

    “Oh, so you play WoW too?”

    “Yeah, lets play together sometimes!”

    “It would be nice, I’m on Kargath, you?”

    “I play on Malfurion.”

    “Well, nevermind, I guess.”

    I really think that MMOGs lose customers because of their myopic position on sharding servers. People want to play with their friends. But if I meet someone IRL and we both happen to play WoW, what are the odds that we’re on the same server? Virtually nil. I have friends in Seattle that started the game separately from me, so they’re on another server. I’d love to talk to them in game and see them more, but no luck for me. :/

  7. I had the opposite happen to me.

    In a guilds teamspeak channel:

    “Hey, you’re Scottish. So am I!”
    “Aye, I noticed…”
    “Where are you from…”
    “[smalltown]”
    “Oh unreal! Me too! I’m [realname], I stay in [somestreet]”
    “Hah! I live just round the corner!”
    “I’ve never seen you around town tho….”

    Eh, pal, I’m not REALLY a 7 foot tall cat-man with a sword

  8. Hi Trin – you’re right, I have the same thing happen about work too. I work for a company with thousands of employees – 4K in the facility that I’m in and ppl will ask me if I know someone, and look surprised when I don’t.

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