Salt-shaker at the ready? Then get your teeth into this: according to a survey conducted by online discount site MyVoucherCodes (as sourced - exclusively, it seems - by PCWorld) 20% of women have given their boyfriends the boot for excessive gaming.
[And there we were thinking games would get us laid... - Doree]
There's more. 80% of the women interviewed claimed their significant others spent too long playing games and surfing the web, and 70% revealed that "gaming addiction" was the main cause of marital strife. Call of Duty was the game most likely to spark a row.
By contrast, 72% of men declared that their partners spent too long on the web, and a mere 6% said they'd throw in the towel over the matter. Guess all those Call of Duty sessions have a soothing effect on the masculine temperament.
Note the preference for percentages over headcounts, and draw whatever conclusions you wish as to the true scope of the site's research.
PS. Finding My Heart paints a plausible picture of how a hard-gaming dumpeé might go about winning his beloved back.
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Thursday 21 January
Written by kay
well it the other way round for me. my hubby dumped me four days ago and is moving out soon,
Now i like gaming myself but my hubby spends almost all his free time on his pc and very little time with our son and me.
Would i take him back with his gaming habit of course i would as long as he curbed it a bit.
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Thursday 21 January
Written by Lee
I was addicted to an online game called Travian that unlike Call of Duty and others means that you have to have your pc turned on all day and also you have to get up throughout the night as the game is always live online. Once you get into the game there is no escape, especially if like me you have an addictive type of personality and have to strive to win everything you play. I played on Travian for about 8-9 months and in that time spent less and less time with my Two children aged just 3 and 6. Luckily for me I seen the trap I was in and the problems it was causing. My partner was very stressed about the situation and I managed to escape the game just in time I believe. I am now very relieved I quit the game and can see the situation now from the other side, infact I`m now less stressed myself and spend more quality time with my children :D
But for many people quitting these games just isn`t an option and I can see just how addictive they are having been there myself, and I`m a 30 year old man. I infact met a woman in Travian who had been playing it persistantly and not spending any time with her partner who was dying of cancer - after his death she came to realise just what she had missed out on.
My advice is to enjoy your gaming, we all need a bit of a break or a bit of fun, But first and foremost put those you love first, and don`t live to regret it!
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Thursday 21 January
Written by John
Silly games for stunted people - get a life you so-sad people!
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Thursday 21 January
Written by Bog
less than a month ago, myself (39yrs old) and both my sons (22 and 20) were online on our Xbox 360s, playing Modern Warfare 2, as part of a concept called "Gaming for good", in which the publishers, Activision, pledged £150,000 to the "War Child" charity, rising to £250,000 dependent on the number of online players... By doing nothing more than "playing silly games", these "stunted people" managed to make the figure £250,000.... Bungie, the makers of Halo:ODST are doing a similar thing this weekend, in aid of the Haiti earthquake victims... and YOU did WHAT, exactly ??? Bitched and whined about "silly games" and "stunted people" ???
looks like the one who needs to "get a life" is YOU, as mine involves doing something i enjoy, whilst helping (by proxy) some of the hardest hit people in the world...