Certainly a connection can develop with someone in a forum. I don't think it is possible to develop a true, deep love for someone though. Unfortunately, it is not possible to truly know someone that you haven't met in real life. And, if you don't know someone, you can't have real, honest love.

With that said, if you think you have fallen in love with me, you should buy me a drink and we'll see where it goes

Again for guys is hard as the odds are against them. But should be easy for girls. Odds are in their favour.

To be fair .Thats also true in real life. 

Agree with you. But a site should at least facilitate them meeting. If it dosent work or if it does after the meeting then its not the forums fault. 

Just don't get cat-fished.

Perhaps people aren't trying and it just happens from getting to know each other over time. That's how it happened to me through playing Everquest. So much down time in the old version that it was more chat room than game. Play together night after night and there's a lot you end up talking about. It's easier to confide in strangers, or in this case people that are far away. Isn't that what a lot of us do on this niche website!

It's not false pretenses if it's followed through. Everquest was quite evil though. Like what do you do when 2 of our favorite group members divorced because the husband cheated on the wife. Who gets in the group, do we need to make a schedule, we still need a tank and healer. So inconsiderate of them!

Love can bloom everywhere but be prepared cause people do not always turn out to be how you picture them to be.
Good luck with it . :)

LOL All my friends who lost their social life to WOW didn't even have time to see a woman let alone have one baby.

All love is is set of needs that make logical sense to be with someone (i.e being able to put up with them 24/7 without wanting to kill them for being around you too much). Each person has their own set of needs..

Therefore depending on your needs, will depend on were you can find love lol.

I think it's possible for love to blossom anywhere, but I think one should take time in defining something as love.

I've actually met two people via online message board before in my life. One of those, very much against the odds, became a wonderful romantic relationship for a good long time. The other is someone who seems to be interested at present and whom I've been interested in for years now without speaking up (I'm not very good at initiating things that way) and we'll see if that goes anywhere. Neither of these were/are via gaming forums though.

On gaming forums (NOT here; this is a cool place!), and on some other forums too (especially political ones), what I have sometimes experienced in that connection is being pursued aggressively by mostly older guys with clear-cut sexual agendas and delusions that they amounted to love. Of course, as much is likely in part owed to the dearth of female contributors overall, but it's still discomfortingly aggressive behavior. I've not yet had the good fortune to meet another girl or woman (as applicable to my age at the relevant life stages) who shared both a comparable level of interest in video games and romantic interest in yours truly.

Really get to know someone first before deciding that what you have is love, particularly if an online venue is the only one through which you know that person at present. Don't be aggressive or insistent or leap to conclusions.

Haha indeed!!

Also people are sometimes having a too perfect sample of what a relationship should be in their mind, minor flaws arent so bad ,dissagreeing also isnt bad :)

Try to love the whole of what makes someone, if that makes any sense. :p