I'm playing online games for quite sometime now. I have my favorites, and these are the shoot-em up first person and adventure rpg games. In my gaming experience, the name-handles become icons of who you are.

How important is it for the gamer to mirror his real self? As for me, I always use the handle Merda de Dragao on games that are adventure rpg, and jmdino for the shoot em ups. Sometimes I use Onid for warrior characters in the popular game Skyrim of Steam Media and Might and Magic. And I tell you, I am so attached to it, that I am so affected of an injury and so happy for every victory. But that's not me in real life, right!

How many of these gamers are like me or are more attached that they value their identity in the games they play. And some I believe reserves sequel versions in advance, so that they may register the same name-handles, and not be robbed of their gaming reputation. And yes! Some really do rob names in a game to be the person they never beaten or they wish to be to gain at least the reputation they never had in that particular online world. How awesome that people value their characters in the world of the internet.

Indeed, It really is quite a world we have in the internet. We become the heroes, the vermin, the prettiest, the royalty, and the general that we somehow aspire to be in reality. We see our gaming lives as a reflection of who we want to become, and we get attached and we feel our joy, fear, and sorrow on our online victories and defeats just like how it is in the real world. The only difference is that we can quit and reboot and change the outcomes as we think fit. And this I like. Happy Gaming! ;-)