Everquest widows tell all

By at 8:18 pm Friday, Mar 12

Everquest Daily Grind is a place where video-game widow(er)s post their personal stories of life with MMO-addicts who ignore spouse, kids, jobs and life for the game.
Last spring my grandmother passed away, and he was so involved in the game that he wasn't there for me. I would go to his house when I only had an hour, and the hour would go by and he would play, and I would sit there, and then I'd have to leave without so much as a kiss. There would be nights when I'd go to sleep there, and wake up at 5 or 6am and he'd still be playing because his guild needed him, or he was retrieving his corpse - which as I'm reading is a popular line!
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Cory Doctorow

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