WoW was the only time in my life where I actually went to go meet online people in real life, i.e. we had a massive guild meeting in-person at someone's home back in the day when a WoW raid was 40 people, meaning the guild had like 60-80 members to be able to "staff" those raids multiple times a week.
The commitment was huge tho, yes. Our main tank was there every single raid (my best real life buddy from school) AND he'd farm his own potions during the week for the weekend raids.
Was a blast with sooo many people sleeping in a tiny row house on all levels in their sleeping bags, on like 3 different floors, tiny backyard, awesome BBQ. Looong drive. Back when we'd all have/bring a desktop and a huge monitor and such :)
