# MMORPG claims another victim

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmorpg-claims-another-victim/295816>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 23, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmorpg-claims-another-victim/295816 "2005-03-23T01:44:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmorpg-claims-another-victim/295816/21 "2005-03-25T00:28:24Z")

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This stuff ain’t new, either.  
I dropped out of a semester in high school back in… 1994 due to an addiction to a MUD, a text-based online multi-player role playing game.  
I got tired of being a MUD junkie after about 9 months.  
That MUD is still around. I’m not bitter, and have no one to blame but myself.  
My drug of choice was [Sneezymud](http://sneezy.saw.net/) .

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**Author:** ![FellowshipoftheBling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/47e85d/32.png) [@FellowshipoftheBling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FellowshipoftheBling)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmorpg-claims-another-victim/295816/22 "2005-03-25T00:49:11Z")

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World of Warcraft is no different than this message board really. You join because something interests you and you get hooked because of the people. I’m sure the depression was the main reason for your friends grades deteriorating, if WoW hadn’t been avialable something else would have provided an “out”.

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**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmorpg-claims-another-victim/295816/23 "2005-03-25T14:32:07Z")

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> [@Rysler](#):
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> That sounds very typical. Almost every friend I’ve had, I’ve met through online gaming. People that send me money if I’m starving, offer me a place in their home, bring me chicken soup when I’m sick with the flu, etc., etc. I don’t think the quality of devotion is less because I didn’t meet them randomly at the bowling alley or the laundromat.

Well, I think it’s more typical of “family” type guilds, and less typical of uber power-gamer type guilds, but that’s exactly what I mean. I’ve personally never understood why some of my offline friends and family have problems with me being friends with people I’ve met online.

Why on earth would people think that’s a less valid place to meet a person and grow a friendship than anywhere else?

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