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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack99" data-source="post: 4504355" data-attributes="member: 53135">I am not sure exactly what you mean. Especially since they can easily overlap. They are different, and yet not. Often, people you befriend online will be very open about certain things, that people you know in RL wouldn't say. Sometimes it is easier to talk to a stranger, even though this stranger might know you quite well. Around 2000 or so, we started making guild meetings once a year. At first, we had like 10 people there, mostly from Scandinavia. But already two years later, we had 45+ people for a week, coming from all over the world to meet the people they spend enormous amount of times with online. I have been to the wedding of people I have met online, just as several (6-7) attended my wedding. One of my best friends today is a guy I met through Everquest.Back in EQ, it was just text. You can send private messages, or chat in a channel (for example a guild channel). Today, more and more use Teamspeak and Ventrillo, but afaik, it's still mostly for raids. The day to day business is still handled in chat. Never thought about it. But official WoW boards makes baby jesus cry <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Playing WoW for a few days will not give you anything near the "real" MMORGP experience. TBH, the best thing about those online games is the friendship and fun you have in a great guild. But you won't get that with a free pass and a couple of hours. In fact, you will probably get a pretty poor idea of the game.</blockquote>

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