Why Gamers Can Meet in the Open Now

Once upon a time, gamers were relegated to basement LAN parties and frag fests. Now, the phenomenon that is online gaming finds MMO players getting together to meet their online gaming buddies in the real world. Medeor takes a look at the ways that gaming and real life converge. Will his Outlook one day pop up a corporate meeting reminder telling him to meet his colleagues in a neutral tavern on a WoW server? You just never know!

"I wouldn’t necessarily meet up with any of the Halo l33ters who have fragged me, but I would meet up with my MMO buddies. I don’t know many who would literally die for their guild mates, but their avatars take punches for them every night. It is really quite chivalrous. Maybe we could get that back into society, hmm?"

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