{"id":43,"date":"2012-06-23T05:05:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T05:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2015-07-17T15:24:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T15:24:11","slug":"world-of-warcraft-vs-online-dating-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/world-of-warcraft-vs-online-dating-sites","title":{"rendered":"World of Warcraft vs Online Dating Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/wownet.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-44\" title=\"wownet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/wownet-300x226.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/wownet-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/wownet.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A few months ago an eyebrow-raising article\/infographic surfaced that has ridden the Internet gaming\/online dating waves that claims World of Warcraft is a better venue to meet your match than online dating websites. \u00a0This infamous infographic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlineuniversity.net\/gamers-get-girls\/\" target=\"_blank\">which can be found here<\/a>, pits the World of Warcraft community against that of eHarmony.com. \u00a0The problem however lies in the data. \u00a0eHarmony.com for example, has a much larger membership than 1 million subscribers; it&#8217;s likely still a ways south of WoW&#8217;s 12 million, but still much higher than the infographic suggests. \u00a0Arguably an even bigger headscratcher is why eHarmony was selected over Match, which has a much more comparable subscriber base; Match.com&#8217;s demographic and median age are likely much more comparable to WoW. \u00a0My guess: eHarmony creates a bigger distinction; had they gone with Match the data doesn&#8217;t seem so eye-popping. \u00a0And while we may be biased, we&#8217;re here to end these debates once and for all with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\">LFG Dating<\/a>, where all gamers have a professional, legitimate venue to meet and find love without scrutiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago an eyebrow-raising article\/infographic surfaced that has ridden the Internet gaming\/online dating waves that claims World of Warcraft is a better venue to meet your match than online dating websites. \u00a0This infamous infographic, which can be found here, pits the World of Warcraft community against that of eHarmony.com. \u00a0The problem however lies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,9],"tags":[404,409,408,16],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gamer-dating","category-lfg-dating","category-relationships","category-video-games","tag-gamer-dating","tag-online-dating","tag-world-of-warcraft","tag-wow"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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