Gaming communities are far easier to find than one would think. Millions of gamers from around the world gather 24 hours a day, across continents and time zones to play action games, shooters, poker strategies and sports simulation games. When online, the options are endless and the worldwide connections are endless.
Poker sites allow users to jump between tables, win with an impressive royal flush, and meet new people with embedded chat rooms on each table. When stakes are high, the game is usually serious, but on lower stakes, there is usually a very friendly atmosphere whilst playing. To take it a step further, the professional poker tables have platforms for global chat rooms where millions of people watch the game and can comment in real time – making it as exciting as the poker game itself!
Thrilling, high level, first-person- shooter games let users interact with others in specific tournaments, regardless of one’s location around the world. These tournaments are held, sometimes with money on the line – but usually it’s pure pride that is at stake. Online gaming allows users to enjoy random interactions with a cosmopolitan flair. There have been incredible news stories where, for example, a couple found love playing online – talk about the ultimate Final Fantasy!
A massively popular multiplayer game called World Of Warcraft (WoW) is a revolutionary role-playing game created over 15 years ago. With over 100 million accounts created since it’s inception, WoW holds the Guinness World Record for the most popular game in it’s field. Players create an avatar of themselves and venture into a world filled with monsters, beauty and all the other users. This has led to thousands of online communities and forums across the globe. The users set out to discuss what others had found in the wonderful World of Warcraft.
FIFA launched a revolutionary gaming platform on their console-based soccer game. With millions of users, a gamer in Germany could connect with someone from Canada and play the same game, at the same time, with no lag in time. What makes FIFA so unique, is it’s FIFA Ultimate Team mode, which lets players trade players, stadiums, kits and tokens on completion of winning games. Gamers connect on a multiple levels, as they scour the world looking for the ultimate team to lead to victory.
Other gaming chat rooms have millions of users from around the world who feel a sense of togetherness and community when playing, like Sun bingo, where players enjoy hours of excitement and fun playing online bingo. These sites see thousands of players visiting to play their hand and win big bucks.
It might be assumed that gamers tend to be loners, but on the contrary; gamers have incredible sense of community through different platforms like message boards, news rooms and even video chats.
This is one community that connects you to every city, every country and even every continent around the world. So the next time you think you’re the only one playing a round of online gaming, think again. You’re one in a community made up of hundreds of thousands of people, just like you.
