World of Warcraft
The most popular massively-multiplayer game in the world sucks in millions of fans, often leaving non-gaming spouses and significant others neglected. So, while you're rare material farming, going on a massive raiding party or kicking back at an Azeroth Inn with some guild mate, your significant other may look for a new person to form a real-life party with.
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Reader Comments (154)
gears of war too...lies mannn
this is a lie, if i had a boyfriend that played bioshock is bang the hell outta him..then uh, play some more bioshock :)
Games can break up relationships, but if ur no really a gamer it cant hurt to just watch or even try to play to see what big deal is. my husband is a bigger gamer than i am. so instead of whining and complaining, we set up a day or two out of the month where we invite people over and just game out all day. its a lot of fun. plus with the way the graphics are getting in a lot of the games on xbox360 and the ps3, watching them play is like watching a movie! there are lots of ways to make it fun for the both of you, you just gotta get creative
funny stuff. ive seen do***entaries on WOW and how a player killed himself because is WOW girlfriend dumped him. that game would ruin a relationship, perhaps not in dating, but within a family.
t(o.ot )
*EDIT* TYPO IN LAT COMMENT, WOULDNT LET ME FIX LOL Stabin42 "by the way, yeah, games do break up relationships. The truth is I know people who have neglected others for WoW. However its not certain that when you start to play you will break up. Plus the article is a joke. Lighten up. thats what'll cause a break up" Honestly, I only know of one relationship that almost split up because o*****ame." In truth, most relationships where a game becomes a problem is more likely not the problem but the scapegoat for some other issue. If someone is truly ignoring their S.O for a game, chances are they would ignore them with something else as well. If you are truly getting ignored or doing the ignoring for a game or any other hobby you both need to start communicating better and find out what the real issue is.
Stabin42 "by the way, yeah, games do break up relationships. The truth is I know people who have neglected others for WoW. However its not certain that when you start to play you will break up. Plus the article is a joke. Lighten up. thats what'll cause a break up" Honestly, I only know of one relationship that almost split up because o*****ame. In truth, most relationships where a game becomes a problem is more likely not the problem but the scapegoat for some other issue. If someone is truly ignoring their S.O for a game, chances are they would ignore them with something else as well. If you are truly getting ignored or doing the ignoring for a game or any other hobby you both need to start communicating better and find out what the real issue is.
this gallery was up in the distant past... I think last year, maybe earlier... and nothing about it is diffrent from its last incarnation. You'd think that they would write something new, instead of just reposting. As someone who graduated from a university writing program and is still looking for a job, I would kill to have a job where I actually was expected to write something, as opposed to not writing something and just lazily reposting the same old stuff over and over again.
Davey, you need to get a serious grip on reality. I'm a girl gamer who plays some of these games and by god i'm happy i don't know you either, but these games don't make me a loser, nor the person i'm dating (which, surprise surprise, is another girl gamer). Neither one of us are fat, nor losers, but even if this article isn't suppose to be taken seriously, there are some truths to it, it's a little offensive if say your Gf/bf rather play a game that isn't co-op when your together or won't even put aside time for things other then gaming. There is a time for gaming and a time for relationships.. or relationship gaming. lol
....Davey... don't be a sexist >_> plenty of female people play games... and it doesn't make them losers... *cough*