Friends you meet on EQ? Do you know their real life names? Where
they live? Their e-mail? If EQ dropped off the planet, would you have any
way to find these people again?
EQ is still a game.
I went to play basketball the other day, I liked a guy I *played* against,
and we became friends. The basketball game is still a game
even if I do meet friends there. And maybe we only meet on the basketball
court. ... Basketball is still just a game. Just like work is work,
even though I have created friends at work, the "work" I do is still
just work. The people you meet while you play a game
do not make the game more than what it is.
I played a mud for well over 7 years, and during that time, my fellow
mudders and I became such good friends that we had international
gatherings of us mudders to meet in real life. Yes, the friends I
created there last a lifetime, but where we met, the mud... the "game"
will always be just a game.
> From: "Bennett, Brian" <BRIAN.BENNETT@...>
>
> So you're saying you haven't made one friend on EQ that you want to keep?
> So you solo everything? Never group, never interact?
>
> All those little names popping up on your screen are real people - true,
> most of the game is spent trying to get better and better "bits" on that
> computer in California, but to make a blanket the game is not real statement
> is wrong. There are people in that game that I care about, and I know there
> are a few that return the favor.
>
> This e-mail is not real. It's bits on a computer in Georgia.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Gaines [mailto:dave@...]
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 9:09 AM
> To: EQ-Monks@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [EQ-Monks] Digest Number 122
>
>
> From: Dave Gaines <dave@...>
>
> It should not be more than a game. Because that is ALL it is, a game.
> If its more to you, then you seriously need to stop "playing" it,
> readjust your life, realize how little those bytes stored on a computer
> in california really should mean to you.
>
> >
> > From: Seamus McNeill <smcneill@...>
> >
> > its more than a game to some.....
> >
> > ~S
> >
> > >
>
> >