Successful relationships in-game/IRL?

[Tsumdere]

Not an intimate relationship, but my best friend and I met in FFXIV - it was back in Heavensward in Ishgard right in front of the marketboard. She said she liked my character and I said I liked hers and asked her how to get a glam (I was sprout).

It's been 7 years since then and I don't think we have missed a single day of talking to each other, even if it's just a hello in the morning. We send each other physical Christmas/Birthday gifts, order each other food, and spot money if the other is in a pinch. Just a few months ago, she flew cross-country to help me move houses. We're going to Fanfest together and have plans for France for Olympics.

All of this because we simply admired each other's glams in DMs! I've never had a friend as good as her.

[PirateRyanG]

I met one of my friends in WOW.

She lives about 5 minutes from me now, but when I first started speaking to her, I lived in the UK and she lived in Sweden.

While I didn't move to Sweden for her (I moved for somebody else), it is kinda awesome that I had that connection with at least one other person before I moved. I moved to a rather small part of the country too, so it is even weirder we ended up living so close.

Outside of that, I haven't met many people in game that I want to continue to talk with. One of my best friends plays Elder Scrolls Online, and playing Elder Scrolls Online made us much closer as friends. However, we didn't meet in-game (we met on a dating site) so I don't think it counts.

Nobody I have met in FFXIV yet seems to appeal to me. The game is rather cliquey, but finding somebody in a game can be difficult. You don't have a massive foundation to build from, at least at the start. You need to hope and pray that eventually somebody is going to jump beyond talking about the game.

[Renalt]

Hm. With all these long distance successes...perhaps I need to be more open to that idea and give it a shot.

[LianaThorne]

Hm. With all these long distance successes...perhaps I need to be more open to that idea and give it a shot.

Go for it. Just realize it takes a lot of communication and effort to make it work, more than you need in a typical in person relationship imo since you can't just take the person out on a date or comfort them the way you can in a typical relationship. Also have to be okay with not having physical intimacy with the person on a constant basis outside of ERP/phone/video stuff.

If botu of those are fine you can easily Google some dating discords for 14.