They found each other.
Real reconnections.

"He was my healer from vanilla through TBC. We ran every raid together for almost three years. Server transferred and just lost track. Found him here. Turns out he only lives two states away."

"Our guild fell apart after Wrath. Leadership drama, people quit, the usual story. I remembered his name years later and just typed it in. He'd made a profile two months before I searched. Timing was weird."

"We played together every weekend for about a year and a half. Same time zone, same play style, never missed a session. Then he just stopped showing up. Found him here. He got married, had a kid, life happened. We're back in a party chat every Friday."

"We played 1v1 almost every night for two years. He was the only person who could consistently beat me. Lost touch when he changed his Battle.net handle and I never tracked him down. Twenty something years later he found my profile here. First thing he said was he still remembered the match where he finally figured out my build order."