Girl: "I want you to play World of Warcraft with me." Me: "Umm...no."

[SimuLord]

Regular readers of my posts know my extreme distaste for Blizzard's money- and time-sink of a game. So imagine my surprise when a female friend of mine broached this subject over the phone last night (and worse, she's actually heard me say in so many words "WoW was a contributing factor in the demise of my marriage.")

Her rationale: She lives about 2,000 miles from me (I'm in Reno, she's about equidistant from Cleveland and Pittsburgh in southeastern Ohio). She thinks that gaming together will bring us closer. Never mind that she's rejected the idea of a romantic relationship on the grounds that she's still in love with her ex-boyfriend (who, by the way, is engaged to someone else---they've been broken up for almost a year!)

Anyway, my point is that even though it would score me major brownie points with a girl, I still wouldn't even consider playing World of Warcraft (my gaming time is valuable and I'd really rather be playing SimCity 4 or New Vegas or Civ 5 or any of the myriad other games in my collection, a collection guaranteed to grow with Steam's annual buy-this-stuff-now spree.)

For Discussion! If you're currently a WoW player, have you ever tried to get your significant other into playing it with you? Or, on the other side of the equation, have you run into the same problem I just described, where someone tries to get you to play but you hold the line?

 

[Paragon Fury]

Hoes before foes' man. Hoes before foes' man.

Ugh, now that I've gotten that bit of pop-culture stupid out of me, I still think you should play it. Cataclysm made it a lot better, and yeah $14 a month is a bit high, but its better than a lot of things people spend $14s on.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I'm in a long distance relationship with a WoW player and I don't mind playing with her as long as I can piggy-back on her account. I have no interest in getting my own account though.

 

[Danceofmasks]

Brownie points aren't worth scoring if doing so would also castrate you.

You can quote me on that.

 

[RSGstyle]

Seems to me that you really dread a woman popping the "Would you WoW with me?" question.

In a similar situation, I began playing WoW in order to better connect with a friend I had while I was still in high school. Although he had many friends, he didn't have a single one who played WoW, so me being the good guy I am, bought the game and played with him a couple nights out of the weeks so he had someone to connect with when he wanted to talk leveling. I never had a problem with the opposite sex playing video games.

 

[tthor]

I don't like WoW, but i think i'd start playing it to get brownie points with a girl

 

[Manicotti]

I would play pretty much any video game, ever, with a girl if she specifically asked. Even a soulsucking black joke like the Sims. You're crazy.

 

[havass]

I'll play WoW.
If you held a knife to my throat, that is. The only thing WoW does is promote celibacy. At only a cheap price of $14 a month!

 

[Fawcks]

Dude, my fiance left my life a year ago and I'm still not over it.

You can't rush these things.

 

[Link XL1]

the girl is psycho, i've seen this sort of thing many times before. if a girl cant get over her ex, then dont even think of getting past 'just friends', cause you dont want to. as far as WoW goes, well, i played the trial for 20 levels and i can see why people do and dont like it. if you in the latter then great! more different games for you to have fun with.

 

[kebab4you]

For Discussion! If you're currently a WoW player, have you ever tried to get your significant other into playing it with you? Or, on the other side of the equation, have you run into the same problem I just described, where someone tries to get you to play but you hold the line?

Yes, yes I have, some off my former classmates bought WoW + all expansion(Was up to Burning Cruse back then) + 2 month of play time for me. Sold it straight back to the store and bought a new headset instead.

 

[SovietSecrets]

Dude, my fiance left my life a year ago and I'm still not over it.

You can't rush these things.

But she wasn't engaged to the guy...

 

[feather240]

Not a WoW player.
Nope.

Why not play it? Sure it's boring, but Catyaclism is out and it's supposed to have changed the entire game world, so starting a new character should be fun. If you have a good comp I guess you could play it in window mode on the lowest graphics and alt+tab with another game, or you could use dual monitors if you have them.

My Two Cents^

 

[SimuLord]

Brownie points aren't worth scoring if doing so would also castrate you.

You can quote me on that.

Done and done.

the girl is psycho, i've seen this sort of thing many times before. if a girl cant get over her ex, then dont even think of getting past 'just friends', cause you dont want to. as far as WoW goes, well, i played the trial for 20 levels and i can see why people do and dont like it. if you in the latter then great! more different games for you to have fun with.

It's a shame because the girl and I otherwise have so much in common, but as soon as it became obvious that she was still severely hung up on the guy, I knew "yeah, she's nuttier than a tree full of squirrels" and crossed her off the potential-romance list.

I do really enjoy talking to her, though, so there's that at least.

 

[Irridium]

Don't do it. My friends got me into WoW. Didn't end well. I regret that $30 I spent on that 2-month.

Just don't do it, its not worth it.

 

[Fawcks]

Dude, my fiance left my life a year ago and I'm still not over it.

You can't rush these things.

But she wasn't engaged to the guy...

Still. She could have love-love'd him lots.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

She would have to be straight up the girl of my dreams to get me to even consider that..(for WoW at least)....even then i would put logic before it, concluding:

Will my grades suffer from this?
will my other game time suffer from this?
Is this going to be worth it long run? how long will i have to play this inept game?
Are we just going to play games or actually have a relationship outside of this hellish game?

so once those, plus anymore questions that pop into my head are answered, i probably will "hold the line" and say no, hell noooo

i've held the line before, actually when my girlfriend told me to stop playing games, i pulled a "heh, yeah, and you stop getting pissed off like its that time of month every week, like that's ever gonna happen" and that's basically when we were done..=\ (we were heading for a break up anyways, in which in breakups i like to have the last "hurrah" as i put it.)

 

[Flying-Emu]

I have been looking for an excuse to pick up Cataclysm.