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Hi and welcome to mmochi! You must be wondering what the name means, and maybe even how to say it? It’s “mo-chee” and traditionally, it’s a yummy, ice cream dessert. But in this case, it’s my internet dream and I’ll tell you the start of it all.

I used to PVP grind for about 40 hours a week. Give or take 15 hours, if you included raiding. Work/life/game balance was just a pipe dream. Sometimes I’d play with my guild, sometimes alone, and I got to know many, many people on my server really well, and many people who played the game in general – I mean, how can you not, considering how many hours I was logged on? And yes, I knew them; I knew how their character had the awesomest gear, whether they were alchemists or fire mages, and how they were gathering materials for a new sword. And during breaks in the game (occasionally, there were some), we’d get to know more about the team members. Like, who needed to afk midway during the raid to cook for the family, who had to take off for a month to prep for finals, who was between jobs, etc.

And when we weren’t playing the game, we were chatting on the forums. And of course, the posts with the most threads were usually the posts regarding “Real Life” info. Like, real life photos, real life meet ups, real life advice for real life problems,etc. And I definitely partook in those conversations. I wanted to get to know my in-game friends. But our guild and clan websites were always kind of lame, they didn’t allow us to host as many pictures, FRAPS videos, and the private messaging kind of sucked. And worse, only guild members ever went to our site! If we wanted to talk to other people from the game, we would have to go to their guild website (and sometimes you couldn’t even find it on google) or convene on a more well-known public forum.

So a light went off in my head and mmochi was born.

The first three letters of mmochi stand for “massive multiplayer online”, in case you didn’t get it by now. I thought that if I could create a cool and interesting website, that gamers would come, create a profile, and stay awhile. We’d all hang out and get to know each other – in a Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood kind of way. “If you build it, they will come.” So whenever you have comments or feedback, please let me know here.

We can be the best gaming community on the web.