Did you know
8.7% of men and 23.2% of women said they had married once ONLINE, while playing roles in a paid or free online MMORPG, the Daedaulus Project study states. The study also states that 1.2% of the male population and 10.1% of the female population claim to have married more than once.
Welcome to the curious, intoxicating and ever-persistent world of MMORPG.
MMORPG?
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games are a contemporary genre of role-playing games that allows a large number of players to populate a single world where they can interact with each other in various ways: chat, trade, make alliances, fight wars, etc.
What about payments? Well, most of the game can be considered as a free online MMORPG experience. You just need to be in possession of a web browser and good internet connectivity.
The induction process is quite simple. You register on the client’s website with a username, choose an avatar, a virtual representation of yourself, customize it to your liking and go to the virtual world to interact, and if so … get married!
Marriage stories
The marriage ceremonies that occur in many MMORPGs become notorious for their procedures. It is attended by other players, with whom alliances have been forged, of course! Toasts are raised, and avatars who have indulged themselves beyond their capacity have been known on occasion to fall into the lakes and …
Fun and memorable examples, as mentioned in the report, include:
Evil Vows – Role playing elves have been known to vow to “walk the path of darkness together in hopes of killing the innocent.”
Kidnappings: where the wife was kidnapped and the husband gave clues to find her and in the travels he finishes a gladiator fight with a horde of fantastic monsters before reuniting with the ‘girlfriend’.
Interruptions: Attendees, bride and groom arrive at the guild to find it erased by a horse spell and corrupted by a rival guild.
Charmed Brides – a girlfriend who is enchanted by another player pursues her husband and kills him. “It did not bode well for the marriage when the bride kills the groom the day after the wedding,” said the husband.
Don’t think of this as the end of the free online MMORPG experience. The possibilities are endless, as you are not facing an AI, but a multitude of others just like you!