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The World Health Organisation recently recognised video game addiction
as a mental health condition, and while that decision may seem strange
to some, stories like the one presented here could serve as an
explanation.
Tencent’s insanely popular mobile video game “King of Glory” is once
again getting some bad publicity in Asian media, after allegedly getting
one 25-year-old Malaysian man so addicted that he decided to divorce his
wife of six years because she sold his account in the hopes that he
would spend more time with her and their daughter. In the past, King of
Glory was linked to the death of a popular Chinese streamer who
allegedly spent most of his nights playing the game, and to the
blindness of a woman who played the popular MOBA for three days
straight.
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The unnamed couple, both 25, fell in love six years ago, and even though
she was a Chinese national, she agreed to move to Malaysia so they could
be together. They got married and their relationship was great up until
2 years ago, when King of Glory was released. The husband was fascinated
with it from the start, but she never imagined that a video game could
ever endanger their marriage. In the beginning, she even played
alongside him, just so they could be together, but soon, he began
complaining about her skills and playing with his friends instead.
At one point, the addicted man started going out to play King of Glory
and sometimes returned early in the morning. Even when he didn’t step
out of the house, he would invite his friends over for gaming sessions
and completely ignore his wife and daughter.
“Although he promised many times that he would stop getting so immersed
in the video game world, he could never keep his promise,” the
25-year-old woman recently wrote in a social media message.
It all became too much to bear a few days ago, after yet another of her
husband’s late night gaming marathons. When he finally went to sleep,
she grabbed his phone and sold his account online. She hoped that this
way, he would be discouraged to play anymore and would finally begin
spending more time with his family. She was wrong.
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When the Kuala Lumpur man woke up and realized he could no longer log
into King of Glory anymore, he flew into a rage, barged into his wife’s
room, grabbed her hand and dragged her downstairs. He told her that he
knew what she had done and that he would divorce her for it. He also
asked her to leave Malaysia and return to China.
“I no longer have any hope for my husband,” the woman wrote on WeChat.
“He played his video game all day long and pretty much ignored me and
his daughter. All I want right now is to obtain custody of my girl so I
can take her to China and raise her properly.” |