TOKYO: A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband's digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police said Thursday.
The woman, who is jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his identification and password to log onto popular interactive game "Maple Story" to carry out the virtual murder in mid-May, a police official in northern Sapporo said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.
"I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry," the official quoted her as telling investigators and admitting the allegations.
The woman had not plotted any revenge in the real world, the official said.
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.
Players in "Maple Story" raise and manipulate digital images called "avatars" that represent themselves, while engaging in relationships, social activities and fighting against monsters and other obstacles.
The woman used login information she got from the 33-year-old office worker when their characters were happily married, and killed the character. The man complained to police when he discovered that his beloved online avatar was dead.
Dude the Japanese are crazy I mean marrige is marrige and virtual is Virtual last i checked virtual marriges shouldnt be this important that you get yourself arrested over and do things to edit other peoples computer information... but Women are crazy and i guess she felt hurt and needed some retaliation... is that really all women are good at is Desireing and getting retaliation!? [sailor2]
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Post by: Flashwerewolf on October 24, 2008, 01:59:32 AM
LOL i remember playing the Beta of Maple Story back in like 2004. I posted about it a lot and didnt sleep for 3 days.
But yeah the game now is really large and stuff like marriage is available; at a high cost.
Morel of the story: Old people can't handle childish games.
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Post by: tkoold on October 24, 2008, 07:04:33 AM
Yeah lol old people never understand the stuff any younger generation makes popular....
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Post by: killian on October 24, 2008, 09:05:48 PM
lol i still play maple every once in a while yea marrige is expensive its 30 dollars minimum
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Post by: tkoold on October 25, 2008, 07:15:49 PM
what!? in this video game thats Idiotic then too...
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Post by: killian on October 26, 2008, 01:32:06 AM
yea its sooooooooooooooo sad how much money nexxon makes off of this stuff
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Post by: ShinamoriAoshi on October 28, 2008, 07:18:24 PM
this just proof how stupid the human race is
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Post by: killian on October 28, 2008, 09:23:18 PM
i dont think the human race is stupid just weak minded cause in 4000 years we have come pretty far technologically speaking and such we just fall victim to advertising techniques and such and blah
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Post by: black death on October 29, 2008, 04:10:01 PM
as killian said, the human race IS smart. we are just easily fooled. people can EASILY make people beleave what is NOT important, important. i dont beleave that games should stop charging money for stuff. they work hard and should get paid. people who pay for it can do what they want, if it makes them happy then ok. but i think things like people hacking other computers for idiotic things like so should go kill themselves, i dont care what other people do what seriously, WHY!? dumb wonderful person.
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Post by: Flashwerewolf on October 30, 2008, 08:47:29 PM
Its like how some dogs are quite gifted in hunting, swimming, protecting, and yet they all love peanut butter even if theres mud in it
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Post by: tkoold on October 31, 2008, 03:41:01 AM
dogs like mud too lol..
SO like Seriously like 30 USD to be married in an Online game and people complain about wow.. i mean like what the hell lol..
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Post by: black death on October 31, 2008, 03:04:33 PM
people will complain about anything that makes others happy and wont make them happy.
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Post by: Flashwerewolf on October 31, 2008, 10:52:19 PM
no one complains of the 4M :)
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Post by: killian on October 31, 2008, 10:55:03 PM
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Post by: black death on November 01, 2008, 06:40:08 PM
DAMNIT FW, OF COURSE PEOPLE WILL COMPLAIN ON THE 4M. WHAT YOU SAY IS BULL [shit] AND YOUR MOTHER IS A W****.
THIS SHIT SUCKS IM OUTY.
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Post by: Flashwerewolf on November 02, 2008, 03:58:37 AM
i said of the 4M not 'on' Lord knows the 4M has the most arguing out of all forums.
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Post by: killian on November 02, 2008, 10:56:55 PM
true but isnt that the point of this forum O_O its also funny how on pretty much all the threads we start out somewhere thats relevant to a subject and then somehow we get waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off topic on something else completely random
that and i just realized what this was [2g1c]
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Post by: black death on November 03, 2008, 05:33:54 PM
yeah, that's why we have several OFF TOPIC smileys.
[off2] [fwoff] [off]
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Post by: killian on November 08, 2008, 10:14:35 PM
well at least they have a purpose
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Post by: black death on November 11, 2008, 02:30:50 PM
everything on the 4M has a purpose! [zoom]
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Post by: killian on November 11, 2008, 07:05:19 PM
even me? :D
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Post by: black death on November 12, 2008, 08:57:42 PM
nope
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Post by: killian on November 13, 2008, 08:20:17 PM
well in that case your wrong everything on 4m doesn't have a purpose [sarcasm]
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Post by: black death on November 13, 2008, 08:54:50 PM
so YOU are telling ME that you have no purpose? emo.
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Post by: killian on November 19, 2008, 06:58:56 PM
im telling you that you told me that everything has a purpose in which you then contradicting yourself by stating i dont have a purpose
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Post by: black death on November 22, 2008, 06:01:34 PM
im telling you that you told me that everything has a purpose in which you then contradicting yourself by stating i dont have a purpose
nope. you're lieing.
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Post by: killian on November 25, 2008, 05:03:08 PM
am i?
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Post by: black death on November 26, 2008, 12:02:30 AM
Hey, Whatever i say is correct.
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Post by: killian on November 30, 2008, 03:26:20 PM
So your saying that im saying that i am in fact a lair and i don't have a purpose on the 4m and everything else does though this contradicts your first statement saying that everything on the 4m has a purpose O_O im done
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Post by: black death on December 01, 2008, 05:56:28 PM
Hey, you said it.
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Post by: tkoold on December 07, 2008, 02:31:36 PM
lol you guys make thing complicated
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Post by: black death on December 10, 2008, 02:51:06 PM