Keeping your irl Id secrect in WoW?

**Bombadrol** · 2013-02-23, 12:56 AM

Hello all

I think I'm a rare kind of WoW player... I've been playing in the same guild since 2006, without any breakes, and I feel connected to many of my guildmates... they are actually the reason why I stayed in the guild all those years... and they are also the reason why I keep logging on... I like them alot

Here is the thing that makes me rare (I think)

I keep all my irl info hidden... while all these guildes have already connected via facebook etc. I still keep my info secret.

I do this, because I have some very close irl friends, whom I know would think that being so close to online friends would be very very weird.

In short - I keep the ammount of time I spend on WoW + the level of socializing and attachment to people I met online totally secrect to friends & family.

Anyone else here do this?

**Darsithis** · 2013-02-23, 01:02 AM

It's not a bad idea. Very few people outside from the mods have my real information from here, and even some of those only have my battletag. The only people who are far more aware of who I am are my old guildmates, one of whom is my partner that I live with.

**Airwaves** · 2013-02-23, 01:02 AM

Originally Posted by Bombadrol

I do this, because I have some very close irl friends, whom I know would think that being so close to online friends would be very very weird.)

They aren't friends if they judge you on something like that. Real friends wouldn't give a shit. Unless you play so much its bad for your health.

**TylerN** · 2013-02-23, 01:06 AM

Meh I don't really care, though I don't just give out my info to everyone.
Got no need of keeping the fact that I play a secret, that's kinda silly in my opinion.

**Bombadrol** · 2013-02-23, 01:14 AM

I've been vague I think.. what I really am trying to say, is that I'm keeping my WoW part of me, secrect, like it's embarrasing. It's like a secrect I keep from my irl friends and family. It's like a big secrect... I can't write more because my friend can't see I'm on an mmo site atm

sorry if I'm still being vague... I'm pretty sure I am... X)

**Lighto73** · 2013-02-23, 01:16 AM

Originally Posted by Airwaves

They aren't friends if they judge you on something like that. Real friends wouldn't give a shit. Unless you play so much its bad for your health.

Pretty much this. If you are too embarrassed to let your friends know you play, you may want to invest in some new friends.

**skitzy129** · 2013-02-23, 01:16 AM

Depends on who I'm talking to. I've made some friends online that have become some of my best friends IRL.

It's a case by case basis imo.

**Bombadrol** · 2013-02-23, 01:19 AM

Originally Posted by Lighto73

Pretty much this. If you are too embarrassed to let your friends know you play, you may want to invest in some new friends.

I'm just trying to see if there is someone like me in WoW

They are my friends and have been since kindergarden... so =) I'm definitely 100% sure that they are my real friends

My main goal with the thread is to see if there is someone else like me... in a WoW-sense I mean.

You know like - juggling my WoW life vs. Irl life.

**whoranzone** · 2013-02-23, 01:22 AM

Well not exactly like you keep it I suppose. I do it for work related reasons - I simply don't want to be associated with online gaming for professional appearances as even hookers and doing coke seems at times more socially accepted so I don't tend to run around and post facebook/linkedin/realid and whatever information to anyone that asks online. Currently there isn't even a person anymore in my guild that knows my last name except for the guild master.
I have a couple of close irl friends that I know from wow or other online games though and most people I consider to be more than an acquaintance should be aware that I am playing wow.

**NonameXADX** · 2013-02-23, 01:23 AM

I do that aswell, I even have 2 different Facebook profiles - One with pictures,real life friends,family,etc etc and one without any pictures,information,real life friends,family and exclusively only people I know from WoW or other games, but mostly WoW. As for Real Id, I do not give it to anyone, however I do give away my BattleTag to anyone that asks.

**Celticmoon** · 2013-02-23, 01:23 AM

I only give my real I'd out to IRL friends (very close ones) and family members.

**theKarn** · 2013-02-23, 01:26 AM

Originally Posted by Bombadrol

I've been vague I think.. what I really am trying to say, is that I'm keeping my WoW part of me, secrect, like it's embarrasing. It's like a secrect I keep from my irl friends and family. It's like a big secrect... I can't write more because my friend can't see I'm on an mmo site atm

sorry if I'm still being vague... I'm pretty sure I am... X)

social stigma is a hell of a thing. you have to come to terms with it yourself.

real friends take you as you are.
fake friends make fun of you because you play video games.

**King Candy** · 2013-02-23, 01:27 AM

Me. Have guildies I've been with going on 4 years. To this day, they don't even know what area of the planet I live on.

**Bombadrol** · 2013-02-23, 01:28 AM

To cut it in neon - I LOVE WoW and have prolly played 500 hours or something... but it would be the most embarrasing thing for me if a guilde posted a WoW-related thing on my facebook... (the reason why I don't give my facebook.... I tell guild that I don't have a facebook, eventhough I almost love them, and have been playing with them since 2006)

**Shadowspawn115** · 2013-02-23, 01:31 AM

I keep my real life info secret but not because I'm afraid of what my RL friends would think, but because I don't trust people online. Simple as that. Only people that know who I am are my siblings who play and my one RL friend that I got into the game.

**Bombadrol** · 2013-02-23, 01:32 AM

Originally Posted by theKarn

social stigma is a hell of a thing. you have to come to terms with it yourself.

real friends take you as you are.
fake friends make fun of you because you play video games.

I've had this 1,5 year, where every week I've played WoW sunday night-->friday morning ... most weeks actually... (too bad it was during cataclysm) but it's hard to tell this to people I'm close to...) maybe others have had this similar experience of hiding how much they play, and how attached they are to their guild?

**Lighto73** · 2013-02-23, 01:32 AM

Originally Posted by Bombadrol

To cut it in neon - I LOVE WoW and have prolly played 500 hours or something... but it would be the most embarrasing thing for me if a guilde posted a WoW-related thing on my facebook... (the reason why I don't give my facebook.... I tell guild that I don't have a facebook, eventhough I almost love them, and have been playing with them since 2006)

Why would it embarrass you so much?

**dokhidamo** · 2013-02-23, 01:36 AM

When you're in the business of controversy, you keep your in-game, forums, and rl seperate.

**the kins man** · 2013-02-23, 01:36 AM

haha, my guild name (used to be bank guild but now leveling it up with some real life friends) is MTSU Economics, so anybody in the middle Tennessee area know a little bit about me right off the bat. I am not too protective, I act on wow like I do in real life. I try my best to be polite, respectful and courteous to other people. I don't think I have made any enemies in game, so I am not too worried about somebody coming to find me. I look at it if somebody hunts me down in real life from info they got from playing WOW with me, God is saying it is my time to go!

**Hakto** · 2013-02-23, 01:37 AM

500 hours? since 2006? so like 2 hours a week?

yea, you're out of game friends would really get on your case about that.

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