Article Help: Families and MMORPGs

Hi, First I want to thank Elysium for okaying this request.

GamerDad has been contracted by a nationwide PC magazine to write an article about how families play MMORPGs together. I need a few good families: this includes teenagers who group with mom or dad, siblings who play together, couples, etc., Games I'm most interested in hearing about would be: City of Heries, Toontown Online, EQ2, CoH, Guild Wars, Matrix, Anarchy Online, DAOC. I already have a family for WoW.

If this describes you please send me a PM and give me your email address. I'll conduct a short interview with you about how you play together as a family, what limits you set (if any), etc., I might ask for a photograph or two of the family playing (but this can be done from behind if anonymity is desired).

As a side note, I also could use a psychologist who can comment specifically on MMORPGs (from a pro-perspective, I already have one for anti). I know a lot of professionals hang out here.

So, YOU can help a GamerDad out and maybe inspire a few families to play games together online. Sound good? PM me ASAP.

Thanks,

Neat opportunity!

I know we have a number of MMOG families that play WoW, but you have that covered. Good luck with your search for the others!

I'm a 29 year-old loner that lives with my parents. Do I count?

Will you be my dad?

Too bad, my whole family plays Call of Duty.

That includes my sons 14 and 10 and my 9 year old daughter.

me and my brother used to play everquest 1 together but it didn't work out the only game we somewhat played together is a Tale in the Desert (tale 1) but we live 10 timezones away from eachother which is a major problem for playing MMORPGs.

now my brother wants to play WOW but as far as i know i'm restricted to Euro servers and he's restricted to North American servers.

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Niseg wrote:

...now my brother wants to play WOW but as far as i know i'm restricted to Euro servers and he's restricted to North American servers.

NiseG, the WoW copy is area restricted based on the location of the credit card that is paying for it. If your brother buys and pays for your WoW (and you pay him or whatever) you could play on North American servers with that account. This doesn't address lag or time difference issues but at least makes it possible.
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Or he could buy you US gamecards and give you the gamecard code and you can use that on your account.

Shoot me a PM and I'll toss you my home email - Count me in. I have 4 or 5 of your target games, and add in NWN as one more to consider.

Toontown - all three kids and myself played
WoW - mainly my son and I, but both daughters now have one character each.
NWN - My son and I played (and do play) extensively - and designed some - I include this in the MMOR...crowd because it was a world that we helped test and create, and I DM'ed for it...so it was a persistent world.
Guild Wars - wife and I play
City of Heroes - son and I played extensively - much less so now.

Toss in the fact that as a divorced dad, this is a huge way of staying in touch with my kids - so I'm a volume consumer...lol