Raid your way to love @ Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal takes a break from the wheeling and dealing to report on finding love in MMOGs. Here's a snip from To Find a Mate, Raid a Dungeon Or Speak Like an Elf:

Nick Yee, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at Stanford University who studies online games, found in a survey earlier this year that 29% of women players and 8% of men said they had gone on to date someone they met in a game. He says the games are filled with scenarios that shed light on players' personalities. A risky raid on a dungeon, for example, can reveal whether someone is a team player. "These are trust-building exercises," he says. Players "are constantly having to make decisions like, 'Do I run out and save myself or help the others survive?' " Situations that reveal so much about someone's character are less common in the real world, he thinks.

Source: ActionTrip