2old2play.com— This article looks at the growing amount of friendships that are forged in online gaming and chat. Many people are finding gaming as an alternative to meeting new people, but are they really "friends"?
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Believe it our not, hosting CS and BF2 for the last 4 years, has made us quite a nice following. My buddies and I have been bearing the costs until 4 months ago when we asked for donations. We were stunned. We hit our donations in just 2 weeks. Now we plan to add another server and continue to make it a better experience. We would invite anyone to come play! <a class="user" href="http://3guns.com">http://3guns.com</a>
@ohgrIt's obvious that you play CS, MMORPG's and visit digg.com. Yet at the same time you automatically lump everyone who does those things into 3 categories that you look down on. Is it so hard to imagine that the people who play the same games as you, are *gasp* as normal as you are? (or as you percieve yourself to be). Of course, no matter what hobby you look at there will be those who take it to the extreme, or are annoying 'hip hop white boys'.Don't get me wrong, I put 'online friends' in a whole seperate category from 'real life' friends. But it just seems so freakin ironic that you denigrate people for doing the exact same things that you do.@404notfoundWith all the games coming out with voice communication, and with ventrilo, msn chat, teamspeak etc it's almost impossible to not hear people's voices online. To me phone is basically the same as voip, so it's not a huge jump imo.
Vemin:How do you know that ohgr even plays MMORPGs? I know I don't, yet I still know that I know a lot of f**king sociopaths that do. In fact my ex played WoW and it was really quite disgusting how often she played.
A friend will pick you up from jail.A good friend will bail you out of jail.And a best friend will be in the cell with you saying "man i cant believe we did that!"
@orphenshadowI know the same feeling. My clan buddies from =DNC= (Deadly Night Crew) and I have known each other for over a year. We were the first 5 founding members and talk all the time over voice chat (TS specifically). We know almost everything about one another, and I would not hestiate in the slighest in helping any one of them out or having them sleep over. We all have each other's cells, which has come in useful in times you need to talk offline about personal issues or if one of the server's goes down. Hopefully we will all meet one day at QuakeCon (we live on east cost, midwest, and west coast respectively), but one of our guys lives all the way in Alaska:-)Online relationships are just like real life relationships. Both require communication to keep going and keep up. Real life and online relationships take about the same amount of work to maintain, but online relationships are easier..you just have to get online.
I think online people can count as friends. I play an an online rpg, and I've been playing it with the same people for about 4 years. I talk to them all the time. Would I call them my friends? Definitely.I actually get along better with some of my online friends than I do with people I've known for a long time in RL.
Exactly, the guys in my clan are just as much friends as the guys i grew up with. I trust them with my life. both in game and out. I have alot of friends off line as well, actually over half the clan were offline friends before the clan. It boils down to intrests, and meeting people.. You walk down the street, you meet someone you say hi, you have no idea what they are interested in, you join a gaming clan you talk to people every night, you obviously both enjoy the same games. this leeds to just shooting the breeze alot of times, and you tend to learn alot about each other.Not to say everyone has the same luck. I mean there are some completly wierdo's out there. but after about 3 years of knowing someone.. you can weed them out.. Most of the guys i have not met in person i have seen on numerous occasions, they will send pictures of parties and events, when the chicago guys have a lan party we get to see the pic's and vice versa, Actually this years quakecon will be the first of our new tradition..Were spending 4 days at quake con, gaming, then 4 days with no internet/computers camping. We hope to make it a yearly event, You have to take certian steps to make frienships last.. ill agree that just cause you play a game with someone doesent make them you friend. But when you expand outside of games, and actually get to know each other, i think thats when you can call them your friends.
hoodwinkedFeb 8, 2006
this is such a sweet articleit make me happy thinking about all my css friends
investrFeb 8, 2006
Believe it our not, hosting CS and BF2 for the last 4 years, has made us quite a nice following. My buddies and I have been bearing the costs until 4 months ago when we asked for donations. We were stunned. We hit our donations in just 2 weeks. Now we plan to add another server and continue to make it a better experience. We would invite anyone to come play! <a class="user" href="http://3guns.com">http://3guns.com</a>
abstraxionFeb 8, 2006
Real friends are made in the real world.
verminFeb 8, 2006
@ohgrIt's obvious that you play CS, MMORPG's and visit digg.com. Yet at the same time you automatically lump everyone who does those things into 3 categories that you look down on. Is it so hard to imagine that the people who play the same games as you, are *gasp* as normal as you are? (or as you percieve yourself to be). Of course, no matter what hobby you look at there will be those who take it to the extreme, or are annoying 'hip hop white boys'.Don't get me wrong, I put 'online friends' in a whole seperate category from 'real life' friends. But it just seems so freakin ironic that you denigrate people for doing the exact same things that you do.@404notfoundWith all the games coming out with voice communication, and with ventrilo, msn chat, teamspeak etc it's almost impossible to not hear people's voices online. To me phone is basically the same as voip, so it's not a huge jump imo.
abstraxionFeb 8, 2006
Vemin:How do you know that ohgr even plays MMORPGs? I know I don't, yet I still know that I know a lot of f**king sociopaths that do. In fact my ex played WoW and it was really quite disgusting how often she played.
zimmFeb 8, 2006
A friend will pick you up from jail.A good friend will bail you out of jail.And a best friend will be in the cell with you saying "man i cant believe we did that!"
kamikazeh20mlnFeb 8, 2006
@orphenshadowI know the same feeling. My clan buddies from =DNC= (Deadly Night Crew) and I have known each other for over a year. We were the first 5 founding members and talk all the time over voice chat (TS specifically). We know almost everything about one another, and I would not hestiate in the slighest in helping any one of them out or having them sleep over. We all have each other's cells, which has come in useful in times you need to talk offline about personal issues or if one of the server's goes down. Hopefully we will all meet one day at QuakeCon (we live on east cost, midwest, and west coast respectively), but one of our guys lives all the way in Alaska:-)Online relationships are just like real life relationships. Both require communication to keep going and keep up. Real life and online relationships take about the same amount of work to maintain, but online relationships are easier..you just have to get online.
feragoFeb 8, 2006
I think online people can count as friends. I play an an online rpg, and I've been playing it with the same people for about 4 years. I talk to them all the time. Would I call them my friends? Definitely.I actually get along better with some of my online friends than I do with people I've known for a long time in RL.
orphenshadowFeb 10, 2006
Exactly, the guys in my clan are just as much friends as the guys i grew up with. I trust them with my life. both in game and out. I have alot of friends off line as well, actually over half the clan were offline friends before the clan. It boils down to intrests, and meeting people.. You walk down the street, you meet someone you say hi, you have no idea what they are interested in, you join a gaming clan you talk to people every night, you obviously both enjoy the same games. this leeds to just shooting the breeze alot of times, and you tend to learn alot about each other.Not to say everyone has the same luck. I mean there are some completly wierdo's out there. but after about 3 years of knowing someone.. you can weed them out.. Most of the guys i have not met in person i have seen on numerous occasions, they will send pictures of parties and events, when the chicago guys have a lan party we get to see the pic's and vice versa, Actually this years quakecon will be the first of our new tradition..Were spending 4 days at quake con, gaming, then 4 days with no internet/computers camping. We hope to make it a yearly event, You have to take certian steps to make frienships last.. ill agree that just cause you play a game with someone doesent make them you friend. But when you expand outside of games, and actually get to know each other, i think thats when you can call them your friends.