Games Likely to Cause a Breakup

January 31, 2008 | By: Steven Wong

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These games offer couples a one-way ticket to splitsville.

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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invisomagus at 5:56 pm on July 7th 2008

GameDaily's the ****ing worst.

niennadarkness at 5:55 pm on July 7th 2008

Ummm.. that was the funniest article I have seen in a long time.... I'm a girl and I play wow, and most of the other games you mentioned, and I have the best relationship going on with y boyfriend, than I have ever had.... But thank you for the best joke ever....

darkwarriorx89 at 5:45 pm on July 7th 2008

To the author: You don't play games, do you? Believe it or not, nearly every girl I am friends with plays at least one video game, except for one girl I know. Also, because of games, I have great friendships and social lives. Because of games, I want to be a game designer and guess what: An action video game I'm planing (in terms of action:devil may cry and ninja gaiden combined) is going to be the most hard core and brutal and bloodiest game ever. You sure Jack Thompson didn't tell you to write this? Seriously, go back to school to get your journalism degree, because your false info bull**** is inaccurate, and completely biased. A girl i know cant' stop talking about WoW, and is starting to get me into it, because i love role playing games. and my 37 year old uncle who plays just as much game as i do is getting married and you know what: his fiance' doesnt give a crap! Don't write any game related articles again, seriously.

jajapster at 5:38 pm on July 7th 2008

Who the hell keeps giving you guys permission to write such stupid articles? First that "reviews from the future" crap and now this?

darthenn0r at 5:31 pm on July 7th 2008

Uh... I'm a girl. I play WoW, DOA, BioShock, The Sims, Final Fantasy, and, well...Pretty much everything on this list. Whoever wrote this is an ignorant tosser who has never bothered to play ANY of the games you declare offensive to us poor, fragile women! You may as well be instructing us to stay in the kitchen if we don't like it. The only thing offensive about anything in this article is the flippant stupidity with which it was written and the blatant disrespect towards the subject therein. This is not journalism, this is ignorance. If someone's going to break up with someone else simply because they harvest Little Sisters, which is not graphic, or even particularly violent, the one doing the breaking-up is a total ****ing moron. If someone's going to break up with someone else because they don't light their kitchen on fire or master the Piano like their Simlish-speaking, ultimately NONEXISTANT counterpart, the one doing the breaking-up is still a total ****ing moron. Should I even mention how absurd it is to include ANIMAL CROSSING on a list like this, a game oft-heralded by far more reliable sources as the perfect way to introduce a hesitant loved one into the gaming world? A note to the author before I go back to fragging n00bs with my boyfriend: Don't write about things you're completely clueless about. It couldn't be more obvious that you did a brief Wikipedia search for info about these games, or some other kind of faux-research concerning the subject matter. If you want to hang with the big boys of journalism, the ones with, y'know, credibility and accuracy, go back to school and stop writing juvenile and ignorant articles about games you've never played for some annoying AIM welcome screen. In short: Grow up, grow a pair, and don't act like you're educated about any given subject matter when it's crystal clear you are not.

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I'm a girl. I play WoW, DOA, BioShock, The Sims, Final Fantasy, and, well...Pretty much everything on this list. Whoever wrote this is an ignorant tosser who has never bothered to play ANY of the games you declare offensive to us poor, fragile women! You may as well be instructing us to stay in the kitchen if we don't like it. The only thing offensive about anything in this article is the flippant stupidity with which it was written and the blatant disrespect towards the subject therein. This is not journalism, this is ignorance.  
  
If someone's going to break up with someone else simply because they harvest Little Sisters, which is not graphic, or even particularly violent, the one doing the breaking-up is a total ****ing moron. If someone's going to break up with someone else because they don't light their kitchen on fire or master the Piano like their Simlish-speaking, ultimately NONEXISTANT counterpart, the one doing the breaking-up is still a total ****ing moron. Should I even mention how absurd it is to include ANIMAL CROSSING on a list like this, a game oft-heralded by far more reliable sources as the perfect way to introduce a hesitant loved one into the gaming world?
  
A note to the author before I go back to fragging n00bs with my boyfriend: Don't write about things you're completely clueless about. It couldn't be more obvious that you did a brief Wikipedia search for info about these games, or some other kind of faux-research concerning the subject matter. If you want to hang with the big boys of journalism, the ones with, y'know, credibility and accuracy, go back to school and stop writing juvenile and ignorant articles about games you've never played for some annoying AIM welcome screen. In short: Grow up, grow a pair, and don't act like you're educated about any given subject matter when it's crystal clear you are not.

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darthenn0r at 5:28 pm on July 7th 2008

Uh... I'm a girl. I play WoW, DOA, BioShock, The Sims, Final Fantasy, and, well...Pretty much everything on this list. Whoever wrote this is an ignorant tosser who has never bothered to play ANY of the games you so ignorantly declare offensive to us poor, fragile women! You may as well be instructing us to stay in the kitchen if we don't like it. The only thing offensive about anything in this article is the flippant stupidity with which it was written, and the blatant disrespect towards the subject of it. This is not journalism, this is ignorance. If someone's going to break up with someone else simply because they harvest Little Sisters, which is not graphic, or even particularly violent, the one doing the breaking-up is a total ****ing moron. If someone's going to break up with someone else because they don't light their kitchen on fire or master the Piano like their Simlish-speaking, ultimately NONEXISTANT counterpart, the one doing the breaking-up is still a total ****ing moron. A note to the author before I go back to fragging n00bs: Don't write about things you're completely clueless about. It couldn't be more obvious that you did a brief Wikipedia search for info about these games, or some other kind of faux-research concerning the subject matter. If you want to hang with the big boys of journalism, the ones with, y'know, credibility and accuracy, go back to school and stop writing juvenile and ignorant articles about games you've never played for some annoying AIM welcome screen. In short: Grow up, grow a pair, and don't act like you're educated about any given subject matter when it's crystal clear you are not.

zomgzorzitsjaz at 5:18 pm on July 7th 2008

Are you kidding? You think wow has made relationships worse off? If anything, WoW has really made mine better. My boyfriends [I am a girl :P] love the fact that I play WoW, and its fun because we get to interact with each other online in a game, almost as if we are near each other. Its great, its nothing terrible.

pinkelite89 at 4:44 pm on July 7th 2008

Ok, I saw My boyfriend play World of warcraft and I started playing it. A lot of women dont like it when their men play video games. My best friend gets forced to lay on a couch with his GF and watch TV. I think signifigant others should give the game a chance instead of just breaking up with their loved ones over it. The article is a buch of crap, I've never seen a relationship break because of bioshock, final fantasy, and so on. . . I've seen relationships form on WoW. Prettyeyes2284, I am a woman and I play DOA and final fantasy. if you get upset for everything that shows women wearing something revealing then you have a problem. Its in movies, games, books. . ..its media. get over it.

pinkelite89 at 4:43 pm on July 7th 2008

betwixtxbetween at 4:40 pm on July 7th 2008

PROTIP: GIRLS ARE GAMERS TOO. Nothing wrong with a little DoA after work with your boyfriend. Or screaming on xbox live how you're gonna pwn that ****ing noob up the ass. Or breeding Chocobos in FF7 for the golden Chocobo. Get over it.