I seem to remember that my Fable II marriage ended in total disinterest, if not actual divorce papers.
I just kind of stopped going home, and, uh, going to my other one instead. Besides, hero business is pretty time-consuming, and to be honest, I didn’t think much of my kid.
Anyway, it seems my broken pretend-marriage isn’t all that out of the ordinary in the gaming world.
According to the developers of Korean MMO, MapleStory, three-quarters of the game’s marriages end in divorce. That’s 20,344 out of 26,982, in actual numbers.
“While it looks like our players break up at a much higher rate than people do in real life, at least our players are not on the hook for alimony,” MapleStory producer Crystin Cox tells CNET.
“Couples who break up are not required to split up their loot, virtual pets or any enchanted items.”
Although I’d expect there’s plenty of lingering resentment about that stuff anyway. You can see it in their big, angry Chibi eyes.
The article cites bits of an interview with a player identified only as Tyler, who describes his own experience of virtual marriage in the game.
“I was young, naive, and thought I had met ‘the one’,” he said. “She asked me what I wanted in MapleStory for my birthday, and I told her that the only thing I could ever want was for her to marry me.”
“She started saying that I wasn’t the person she fell in love with. That I had changed, and that I didn’t seem to care about her anymore. Less than a week later, we decided that we needed to sever all ties between us, and we had our marriage annulled. I haven’t talked to her since.”
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
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