My Single Mom Life

A 43 year old Japanese woman became so involved and eventually enraged from playing an online game called Maple Story, that she ended up "murdering" her online husband.

The woman is now jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data of her online husband.
She used his username and password to login to his Maple Story account and "kill" her now online ex-spouse, so the now online ex-husband, called the police to have her arrested for hacking.
The 33 year old man and the 43 year old woman, were once happily married in the game, and for an unknown reason, the man decided to divorce her character.
The woman was quoted as saying; "I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry."
Perhaps she was upset that the online divorce would force the couple to divide up all of their online assets that they had built up during their game play, and she would lose the car, half of the "bank account", maybe some of the furniture, and probably either divide or completely lose their massive Tea Collection they had gotten from their virtual trips around their virtual world.

She has not yet been formally charged, but if convicted could face a prison term of up to five years or a fine up to $5,000.
She was arrested on Wednesday, and then taken 620 miles across the country from her home in southern Miyazaki to be detained in Sappporo, where the man lives, the official said.

This isn't the first time that a crime has been committed because of a virtual game.
In August, a woman was charged with plotting the real-life abduction of a boyfriend she met through "Second Life,", and about a year ago, a woman filed charges with police because her character was raped in Second Life, and she was unable to close out of the game and felt like she was being violated because of it.
In Tokyo, police arrested a 16-year-old boy on charges of swindling virtual currency worth $360,000 in a role playing game, by changing another player's account portfolio using a stolen ID and password.

I know that virtual games are very addictive, I love playing with my Sims when I can, and am completely stoked about the Sims 3 coming out in 2009.
My sister, her husband, my teens, and millions of other people, are completely addicted and involved with WoW, and that's like all they talk about, but I do believe that this is the first online murder of a spouse done by hacking another players account because the virtual relationship ended.

People need to not take these virtual games so damn seriously.
It's a game people, only a game.
If you are feeling extremely strong urges to murder an online game character, it's time to shut down the computer and go outside and get a real life.

I am really excited about Sims 3, and I promise, I won't make any Sims that look like real people that I know and dislike immensely, and then kill them by drowning, or fire, or a satellite falling from the sky and slamming into their heads!
Well, I can't really promise you that, but I'll try not to do that.