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The Daily Grind: The couple that plays together...
Ah, coupledom. There's no day like Valentine's to bring that ridiculously to the forefront - the day in which people buy roses and candy and many gamers go offline to spend time with their other halves. Of course, for gaming couples we wondered if that might be a bit different? While there are quite a few couples in the Massively office (not between Massively writers, mind) most of them are between a gamer and an extremely patient non-gamer. As such, we thought we'd ask the gaming couples in the house if you'd be spending time in your favorite MMO together for the holiday, or if you'd be sticking to something a bit more traditional today? If you're not in a gaming couple, how important is it to you to have a gamer as your partner in life?
The Daily Grind: How do you justify spending time in an MMO?
For every gamer couple, where the duo is composed of two people who both play games, there are at least 5 non-gamer couples, and probably more. Of these, a good portion are likely composed of a gamer and a non-gamer. In stereotypical fashion, the non-gamer might feel resentful of the time the gamer spends 'playing that stupid game'. Or worse, the gamer herself feels guilty for enjoying her hobby, and spends more time not playing, but wishing she were. Those of us with the great fortune to be professional game bloggers have an easy out: if we don't play, we can't write -- if we don't write, we don't get paid. "Sorry, honey, I have to spend the next couple of hours leveling up; my next feature depends on it, and I'm on a deadline!" But for the rest of you, is it enough to tell your significant other that you work hard, and need your alone time with your favorite MMO? Do you manage to make equal time for your children and spouse? Do you ever suddenly stop to count the days and weeks of game labor, with nothing physically substantial to show for it except for repetitive strain injury? How do you justify your game time?
