Gaming,relationships, stories, and sociology

[Green1]

I used to read a lot from Nicky Yee. For those that do not know, Yee was a post doctoral graduate student in sociology studying how gamers interact. His doctoral work was called the Daedalas Project. It focused on any topics within the MMO world. One of the topics that got a lot of hype was gamers and relationships that formed during gaming.

His work was fascinating. Unfortunately, I believe now he works for Ubisoft applying his knowledge of gamer sociology for evil, giving them motivations on how to make gamers buy more things in microtransaction games. But, I digress.

I actually helped him and participated in many of his studies in a small way. I, and hundreds of others, shared stories of what happens in the world behind the keyboard and how it can change the world of real life. The posts on his site were very personalized.

I would like to share some of my stories. Ever since the"BU fake PM stuff", I am sure some interest has been tweaked but some wanted more truthful stories. Do not believe the hype. Some of these stories end horribly.

With that, next post I will begin. Anyone else, of course can share their stories.

DISCLAIMER NO... I really do not care about finding someone online. I will stick to local trim, thankya. BUT... I love drama. Let's share our sociological data!!!![/b]

[Green1]

STORY #1: Epic Mount for an Epic Mount on Craigslist.

This one is one of the most infamous "relationship stories" in gaming. A female on a small, backwater server in World of Warcraft wanted an epic mount. Back then, an epic flying mount was an insane amount of gold that only a few players could afford unless they bought gold from certain disreputable Chinese gold farming sites or spending hours and hours grinding gold in a boring fashion.

Our heroine, though, also not having a boyfriend had an idea to kill two birds with one stone. She posted on Craigslist that she would "mount" anyone who would give her the gold to buy the epic flyer. The exchange would happen in a hotel room that provided internet. They would both bring laptops, log into WoW, and exchange gold. After the exchange was complete, get it on!

Someone took the offer up. Of course the post on craigslist was deleted as "prostitution", but a followup post indicated that she was giving the guy "seconds" and was going in a relationship with him. Christian hackers hacked the YMTD site lampooning it, but still.

My thoughts? Smart girl. If a guy did this, he is a pimp daddy stud. A girl does this she is a [prostitute]? She got both her epic mount AND a gamer boyfriend. Win.

[Green1]

STORY #2: I will take you away to a magical place and we will smoke pot and game all day!

This one is a personal one from me, as I know one of the ones involved. In 2004, broadband internet spread like wildfire. Good computers were still fairly expensive for the working class. But, you could still afford a console. The console RPG de jour was Final Fantasy 11.

One of my friends, a chain smoking pot head, dishwasher at a tourist trap in New Orleans, and wannabe Wiccan met a girl online in this game. The stories of New Orleans impressed her, being stuck in a small, boring town in Kansas. People... practicing Wicca in the open! Unregulated booze! The architecture! The pact was sealed and he saved a pay check for her one way plane ticket to New Orleans.

It was a whirlwind romance and we did not see much from him after she arrived. Perhaps he was concerned a gamer guy would do what we called "vulture theory", hat is waiting for a relationship to die then taking the girl with superior charisma and resources. There was a shortage of gamer girls in New Orleans at that time. He even did not show up to DnD sessions for fear of this fact. He isolated her.

Shortly after, Hurricane Katrina hit. He escaped to Minneapolis, MN and both got some FEMA money. But, that runs out. Both want to sit around and game, no one wants to actually work. She gets a job, but he just sits up gaming all day. In the end, she kicks his ass to the curb and hooks up with another she met online. This time, one that works so she does not have too. Friends of our male hero collect money for him a ticket to South Carolina where we believe him to be to this day.

[Green1]

Story #3: Cross country looking for luv.

Man, where shall I begin on this little gem.

The female was living in Texas and dating a developer for a certain popular game company famous for casual games. (Do not ask me, I am easily doxed and I respect privacy of those involved. I  know we have game devs in here.) Out of the blue, while living with this guy, she took a trip up to New York to "see" this guild master of a rival guild on our server. "Seeing" this guild master lasted a week, and the dev in Texas, had to work.

Afterwards, I get a PM asking me for advice because she now flies to California to a fellow gamer who happens to be a buff amateur boxer. I guess my advice worked because she stayed a week at his house, too.

Next thing we know, she is preggers. Of course she tries to stick this on our buddy the popular casual game dev in Austin. After a lot of drama, he kicks her to the curb. A paternity test indicated he was not the father.

My goodness, she must have been a rich [complaint or disagreeable woman] to afford all that travel. But still, interstate cheating in a video game chat room?

Never heard much more. She dropped off the MMO scene after that.

[Buster's Uncle]

My best story, I may not share, as honor forbids telling what I know.  Too bad, as having the truth get out would do me a lot of good...

[Green1]

STORY #4 : I am out selling vacuum cleaners to support our family, HONEST! I am not gaming or shagging strange trim!

My goodness. The 4x world and forum world I feel lacks sometimes because of the lack of drama. Yes, there is the occasional nerd war over stupid stuff. But NO drama compares to that of a woman scorned.

Val (not real name) was a regular in gaming. His pregnant common law wife up in Wisconsin was also a regular in chat, though she was not in gaming for the game but cool conversation. But, on the sly, he had met a much hotter chick that just happened to be a city away that was in another guild.

Being unemployed and living off the lady, he invented a story of being a door to door vacuum cleaner salesman. This necessitated his need for their only car for hours at a time. Even when he was at the house, he would often switch to a hidden alt to talk to this lady.

Unfortunately, for our cheater, you should NEVER give your passwords to your girlfriend. When he finally decided to leave his pregnant girlfriend, she was devastated. he left the guild and began applying to various other raid guilds that he could easily gain access to due to his character being geared. BUT.. our heroine had the password! She logged into the character and stripped the toon naked then swam him out to the middle of the ocean! Due to not having the gear, the character was worthless and di not get into that badass progression guild.

To top it off, the other girl left him too. Without the gear, he could not game with her and it was a turn off. This left our guy unemployed and living in the car.

Morale is, do not share passwords with your SO if you plan on doing them dirty!

[Green1]

My best story, I may not share, as honor forbids telling what I know.  Too bad, as having the truth get out would do me a lot of good...

Actually, it may be in your best interests to do so. While even in face to face gaming I did maintain a very asexual position just to keep the fun going for others, I do have regrets that I did not possibly screw everyone to get screwed n return.

But, if such people are on this forum, I will respect that decision. Then again, my asexual approach towards gaming is a numbers game, too. You piss off one female but lose nothing, so be it. The female (or even a male) has 20 buddies.... Do NOT put them on a pedestal. They are as good and/or as inept as males. And amongst themselves are much rowdier than us.

You can also use fake names.

[Buster's Uncle]

I may not.  I know many secrets, and I have to be trustworthy, for myself as well as my reputation...

[Green1]

grrrr....Maybe  misogynist propaganda to lead you to action, DOOOO EEEEET!

read reddit's theredpill 20 times. Get worked up. Then come back Give AC2 da drama llama!

[Buster's Uncle]

[Green1]

Then again, do not read that [poop] . That stuff gives guys mental illnesses if taken as sacred. Although, they have some true points that can be helpful.

[Green1]

[poop] .. getting someone incorruptible like BU to read theredpill. That is pretty villain like of me.

STORY #5 Let me show you my nipple ring and a bit more.

NowI wil admit, the person that did this was younger... jailbait younger. But here is the tale. A girl in Boston had her nipple pierced. She bragged about it in chat. Who better to show this to than those who could invite her to the ultimate party that is raiding  in MMOs than the officers and guild leader?

Of course, I would have nothing of it since I was a lame dude and invited solely on merit and gear. But the other officers capitalized on this. Pics or it did not happen! She obliged. From there, a pic of a skinny 15 year old girl spread over the server - [privates] and all. I saw it. Damn, talk about kiddie porn. I deleted that crap as soon as it was mailed to me.

The hazing for her doing that got so bad, she rerolled on another server. I am sure she just wanted to show it off to some dude that flirted with her in private over voice chat, but he shared it with everyone. He even revealed her facebook page!

So yeah... careful with those pics.

[Buster's Uncle]

Green, I gotta ask you to watch the language.  That's two posts in a row I had to edit.

[Green1]

Green, I gotta ask you to watch the language.  That's two posts in a row I had to edit.

I thought that was the filter... nevermind "edited by BU"....

[Buster's Uncle]

The swear filter sucks, and it's easier on me if people try to spot things that get past it.  I don't like using my powers for anything but housekeeping...