Woman deletes boyfriend's online RPG weapons, armor, etc.

[Sniderman]

According to the article (CLICK ME! (http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20050120p2a00m0dm012000c.html)), she was pissed that he broke up with her. So, using his ID and password, she deleted all of his possessions in some online massive multiplayer RPG. Wow. That's funny. And harsh. But mostly funny.

[Lady Jaye]

It's a pathetic and funny story at once...

[Gapporin]

It figures.

In America, whenever you're mad at your ex, you key their car. Or leave obscene messages on their answering machine.

In Japan, you delete their RPG character.

:P

[le geek]

"The woman and the man reportedly met each other through the game in the autumn of 2003, and started a relationship, actually meeting each other, but they soon broke up, police said."

I can't believe charges were pressed!

[Cheese]

that's why you never share your password with anyone!

[jhm1987]

amen to that

[-hellvin-]

The ultimate sin

She has NO HONOR

[slip81]

That guy must have been pissed. I'm suprised and at the same time I'm not that Japan has a law against that type of stuff.

[EnemyZero]

if only people deleted stuff instead of murder lol, the world would be better untill the deletee comes back lol

[maxlords]

Why not? Japan has a law against Enix releasing Dragon Quest games on weekdays!

And at the RPG guy.... BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA!

[MegaDrive20XX]

I'm surprised the court took this case seriously lol

[Flack]

I'm surprised the court took this case seriously lol

Why? All the guy has to do is show the judge a few recent news reports where people have sold items from online games for real money on eBay. Then I guess he just needs to get a magical elf to determine the items worth. Instant cash.

[Hep038]

I have to assume that it is not so much of deleting his game as it is deleting his data. I am sure if your ex came over a deleted your hardrive on your PC you might be able to press charges.

[CitizenWhite]

I'm surprised the court took this case seriously lol

Why? All the guy has to do is show the judge a few recent news reports where people have sold items from online games for real money on eBay. Then I guess he just needs to get a magical elf to determine the items worth. Instant cash.

That and


Police reported the woman, of Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, to the Fukushima District Public Prosecutors Office accusing her of violating a law banning illegal access.

So, I guess it wouldn't really be specific to an online game, just getting into an account that did not belong to her. Probably applies to mail accounts and that type of stuff.

I don't really play any online RPG's now, but if someone would have done that to me back in my Diablo 2 days... whoo man, watch out.

[Sothy]

What do you tell a woman with 2 black eyes?

Nothing, its too late she already deleted your Everquest items.

[imanerd0011]

HAHAHHAHAH

This story is hilarious. Easily one of the nerdiest cases ever to appear in court. This is why I play retro games that don't even have a save feature. LOL

[autobotracing]

lol


Thats why I dont play those games :P

[MegaDrive20XX]

I'm surprised the court took this case seriously lol

Why? All the guy has to do is show the judge a few recent news reports where people have sold items from online games for real money on eBay. Then I guess he just needs to get a magical elf to determine the items worth. Instant cash.

That's true, i forgot about people who do that...happened with UO, Everquest, and PSO even

[hezeuschrist]

if only people deleted stuff instead of murder lol, the world would be better untill the deletee comes back lol

I guess you could consider murder just deleting people. HAHA, get it?!

And yeah, I think that's hilarious. Share your password with people you trust... break up with person you trust, then you change your passwords.

To the "victim": HA-ha.

[yuppicide]

My friend met his wife through Everquest lol. I hadn't seen him in about 2 years and I called one of my friends up out of the blue and he said did you hear Rich got married? .. I was like married?! He never even dated a single girl far as I ever saw lol.

[NESaholic]

LOL, this article made me laugh,revenge is sweet! LOL

[jajaja]

Hehe same thing happend to me once. My ex-girlfriend changed the password for my nick on IRC so i couldnt use it. I got it back after some time tho. I was realy pissed considering i had that nick for a long long time hehe.
But all this happend a loooong time ago, doesnt matter now :)

[Raedon]

Ohhh maaan.. I'd saw take her to court but it's his own dowm fault for letting her know his account info.

[Predatorxs]

Let your chick see what you have in the bank, let her know all your little quirk's, even let her into your head, but never.....ever! let her know your passwords online LOL

http://www.xs.dsl.pipex.com/avator/ms_ufo.gif..XS

[Mattiekrome]

I was into one of those MMORPG's for a while (www.runescape.com), but that was while I either didnt have a job or my work schedule was 2-2-3 (which gave me lots of free time). Ever since I got a M-F 9 to 5 job, I havent played it at all. I could see how that guy would be pissed tho. Lots of time put into getting stats and junk like that... LOL Funny story though

[Jorpho]

'Twas Julian Dibbell who wrote an interesting article a while back proposing that MMORPG items could be tax-deductible...

http://www.juliandibbell.com/playmoney/

[kainemaxwell]

Ouch, poor guy.