the same thing happened to my friends who were playing gunbound and maple story, met offline and hooked up... Now it's this group of people who all met online. I truly believe that asians do not listen to the mass media about internet dangers if they find out that they're meeting other asians. Is this somehow safer? Not all asians are sane...>_>
1st case, why won't you meet up with him? Are you afraid when you meet up he won't like you any more? Or you afraid you'll have even more feelings? As for your friends.. if they are your friend you should of been honest about your feelings of thinking you like him and don't want to express it to him, afraid he doesn't feel the same way. It's funny I met my current bf online through mIRC..been dating him for say 3 yrs... I never thought I'd be with someone from the net. I think you should just get it over with and meet him in person.. he might not be who or what you think he is. You might be able to come to some kind of closure with goin back and forth of how you feel. As for the second scenerio, some ppl just like to play around and bug you, just ignore them and hopefully they'll get bored and leave you alone.
My ex was my Gunbound guild leader's cousin...whom I met independently on...asianavenue...hahaha And I can see why you would meet ppl on maple story. For some odd reason, chicks are addicted to that crappy game. I've seen ppl chat for hours without killing a single monster...Actually, I'd say MS is more of a chatroom than a game.