8th March 2010: Eavesdropping WoW Conversations IRL

Oath · **Posted:** Sun Feb 14, 2010 7:43 pm

Have you ever been out and about, minding your own business, having a casual conversation with a friend and fellow WoW player about the latest patch or last night's dungeon, then some random stranger comes up to you and says something like, "Hey, I'm sorry, I couldn't help but overhear, but do you guys play WoW? I've got a level XX [race] [class] on [server]"?

I've probably had two handfuls of people come up to me in real life, either overhearing I play WoW from conversation, or seeing that I'm wearing my Warlock shirt or Horde sweater, and strike up a conversation with me about the game.

While places of congregation abound, such as a gaming convention, comic book shop, or GameStop, the topic persists more of an unprecedented setting. I ran into an Alliance member at a mall outside of the restrooms and we had a heated debate about Varian Wrynn. A guy started a conversation with my cousin and me at a sushi bar because my cousin and I were discussing ICC. A friend and I were at dinner at an expensive restaurant, and I was telling her about my spec, as she was leveling a warlock, and our waiter chimed in about his warlock.

Have any of you out there in the blogosphere had this happen? If so, what was your experience like? Was it just a pleasant conversation or did you face off with a passionate member of the opposing faction?

Oath · **Posted:** Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:38 pm

WoW.com did this topic as their Breakfast Topic today.

Innnnnnteresting.

Rilandune · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:48 pm

Quite ironic timing

I actually blogged last year about running into a reader of my blog at a convention in Baltimore, it was a short/boring post so I won't link that as my post for this topic, but I will be posting on this.

Cheers!
~Ril

jaedia · **Posted:** Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:46 pm

http://www.lazy-sniper.com/?p=2203

Here's mine!

sprink · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 12:33 am

http://sprinknotes.wordpress.com/2010/0 ... dd-places/

My contribution. ^_^

artie · **Posted:** Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:03 pm

My story @ http://www.bladebarrier.com

Loving this idea...

Cheers,

glassofwater · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:29 am

yeah new post up on this subject...
http://notsooverpowered.blogspot.com/20 ... ve-to.html

note: Great question Oath I had a real good time on this ^.^

Oath · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:45 pm

http://dressedtocuddle.blogspot.com/201 ... g-wow.html

Thanks to everyone who pasted to the topic! EAT THAT WOW.COM.

crankyhealer · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:49 pm

Oh i forgot to post here when I did my shared topic. I FAIL.

http://crankyhealer.wordpress.com/2010/ ... e-azeroth/

Ophelie · **Posted:** Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:20 pm

Here's mine:
http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2010/03 ... tions-irl/

Jasyla · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:03 am

Only a week late!

http://cannotbetamed.blogspot.com/2010/03/shared-topic-eavesdropping-wow.html

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