{"id":14052,"date":"2011-09-15T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"three-out-of-four-maplestory-marriages-end-in-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14052-three-out-of-four-maplestory-marriages-end-in-divorce","title":{"rendered":"Three out of four MapleStory marriages end in divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"

I seem to remember that my Fable II marriage ended in total disinterest, if not actual divorce papers.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it seems my broken pretend-marriage isn’t all that out of the ordinary in the gaming world.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Couples who break up are not required to split up their loot, virtual pets or any enchanted items.”<\/p>\n

Although I’d expect there’s plenty of lingering resentment about that stuff anyway. You can see it in their big, angry Chibi eyes.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.<\/p>\n

Three out of four MapleStory marriages end in divorce<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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