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Ex-Lover Deletes MMOG Character
Ant writes "Voodoo Extreme reports on the story of a jilted Japanese girlfriend who logged onto her ex-lover's Lineage account with his username and password. Once there, she deleted his game data including all the items, weapons and clothes he had collected. Although the boyfriend did not suffer financially he reported the misuse of his account to the police. Police then reported the woman of Toyama Prefecture, to the Fukushima District Public Prosecutors Office accusing her of violating a law banning illegal access to someone else's online accounts." Considering the big business that Lineage represents, it doesn't surprise me that the police took it seriously.
His actions make perfect sense. After all, what's more important, your MMOG character or your ex-girlfriend? (obviously Slashdot readers will have to treat this as a hypothetical situation, since in order to have an ex-girlfriend you must first have a girlfriend)
The NSA: The only part of the US government that actually listens.
if you don't want your shit deleted, don't give away your login details.
non-story. at least non-tech. talk to Oprah.
Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
Can you Bobbitize your own character in such a game?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Help! I am in a similar situation right now. Standing not 10 feet from me, my soon-to-be-ex girlfriend has both hands gripped around the electrical cord of my classic vertical Qubix arcade cabinet. If she pulls the cord I lose my cherised spot as the high score holding.
To put this in perspective, it took me 4 years to get that score. I've been dating her for 2 years. Nuff said?
Now here's the dilemma: She demands I turn off this computer right now and spend the day with her. I haven't watched the new 'The Corpse Bride' trailer yet, nor have I caught up on Slashdot, Anandtech, or Ars Technica.
What do I do?
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
Remember kids - share body fluids all you want, but never share your password.
-Adam
Seriously, what's the purpose of sharing your password with your SO? In case someone throws a brick at your head, and you forget everything, you can still log on? I can just imagine the damage my wife could do to my karma on
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$tar -xvf
good for her i say. those fucking MMORPGs are like social black holes. i've been sucked into them a few times and every time I quit one i end up getting depressed about wasting my life on a stupid game. it's almost as bad as a drug addiction (maybe not physically but mentally, no doubt).
- tristan
Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #40: She can touch your lobes, but never your Latinum.
I made a PHP/MySQL library that prevents SQL injection & makes coding easier!
shouldn't that mean that the VIRTUAL police should be investigating this VIRTUAL crime?
for another way to threaten my husband.
Seriously, if I ever did that to him, he would go in and delete all of my WoW characters. And I would totally deserve it. Smashing a window on a car is one thing, deleting a character is another. At least you can replace the windshield fairly easily.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for Sega. - Mallrats