Mrs-Zap
Dominant
- Joined
- Sep 21, 2006
- Posts
- 461
- Location
- Finland
- Society
- Hunters Unlimited
- Avatar Name
- Aleksiane Mrs-Zap Greadon
My husband / Zap has been playing EU for about 4 years now. And since I allso started playing I thought it would be nice to share this with you all. It´s my first time writing here so bear with me 
We both have allways played computer games , so it wasen´t a big thing when he told me about this new online game. I wasen´t even a least bit interested, because we usually don´t find the same kind of games appealing. I´m more of the ”strategist” and he is the ”motorically skillful; blows away everything that moves kinda guy”
At first everything went smoothly, but then the game session started to get longer and longer.
Night after night I watched him fade away from the room and transform into some pixels on the screen.
Then our old computer broke and we had to do with just one… so the fighting over computer-time started and ”I need that thing for work, u know, not for some stupid game” was propably the most used sentence in this house for a while. Luckily Santa was kind enough to bring him a new laptop for christmas.
Time went by and I found that more and more I had to drag him to see our friends, go movies, parties or what ever we used to do for fun b.EU (time before EU). He never complained though but I could see it wasen´t allways his number one choice. So many times I have said to him that its just a game, its not real.
I remember this one party. He started to glance at his watch a lot, and I thought “oh goody, we are going home early to have some sweetstuff tonight” But when we got home he went straight to “check the auction” as he said. For a sec then… I really thought I was going to kill him.
Then there is the matter of creditcard bills. Didn´t exactly want to open a dialog on those. I have been known to be able to use it allso, so better to not say anything. But yes I did notice.
Then again there was allso an uber in Blau. I noticed that too even it sounded like greek to me.
Then one Friday night few months ago, the discussion in his soc-chat got interesting. Mainly because one of the guys was having a bit of fun at Zaps expense. I couldn´t resist the temptation but to add more water into the mill. And that was actually the first time I really realized that there were real people involved and not just some imaginary characters in bitspace. I must admit that I got little bit curios then. (And yes Dale, it was you )
Now I have been a participant in EU for about 5 weeks. Loved to make my own avatar btw
Zap took me as a diciple and helped me to get started. His soc-mates where really nice to me and helped me allso. I read a lot forums and I really sunk in to the Entropia Universe.
I was invited in to his soc and with joy I accepted. I graduated a week ago and now I´m playing daily.
I have made new friends who I cherish and love. (U know who u are
)
The funny thing is that I´m the one hunting and blasting away and he´s the one who strategises, so I quess we learn something new about our selves as well as from one another. Only unanswered question now is which one of us is the real addict?
Now for the most important part:
For all the wifes and husbands out there who don´t play; Give it a chance!
You may not go crazy over it but atleast you might understand a bit better.
And Zap IF I have once or twice been nagging about playing; I apologize!
If there are other couples who would like to share their experiences about this subject, it would be nice to hear them so please reply us
See u in game
Mrs-Zap
We both have allways played computer games , so it wasen´t a big thing when he told me about this new online game. I wasen´t even a least bit interested, because we usually don´t find the same kind of games appealing. I´m more of the ”strategist” and he is the ”motorically skillful; blows away everything that moves kinda guy”
At first everything went smoothly, but then the game session started to get longer and longer.
Night after night I watched him fade away from the room and transform into some pixels on the screen.
Then our old computer broke and we had to do with just one… so the fighting over computer-time started and ”I need that thing for work, u know, not for some stupid game” was propably the most used sentence in this house for a while. Luckily Santa was kind enough to bring him a new laptop for christmas.
Time went by and I found that more and more I had to drag him to see our friends, go movies, parties or what ever we used to do for fun b.EU (time before EU). He never complained though but I could see it wasen´t allways his number one choice. So many times I have said to him that its just a game, its not real.
I remember this one party. He started to glance at his watch a lot, and I thought “oh goody, we are going home early to have some sweetstuff tonight” But when we got home he went straight to “check the auction” as he said. For a sec then… I really thought I was going to kill him.
Then there is the matter of creditcard bills. Didn´t exactly want to open a dialog on those. I have been known to be able to use it allso, so better to not say anything. But yes I did notice.
Then again there was allso an uber in Blau. I noticed that too even it sounded like greek to me.
Then one Friday night few months ago, the discussion in his soc-chat got interesting. Mainly because one of the guys was having a bit of fun at Zaps expense. I couldn´t resist the temptation but to add more water into the mill. And that was actually the first time I really realized that there were real people involved and not just some imaginary characters in bitspace. I must admit that I got little bit curios then. (And yes Dale, it was you
)Now I have been a participant in EU for about 5 weeks. Loved to make my own avatar btw
Zap took me as a diciple and helped me to get started. His soc-mates where really nice to me and helped me allso. I read a lot forums and I really sunk in to the Entropia Universe.
I was invited in to his soc and with joy I accepted. I graduated a week ago and now I´m playing daily.
I have made new friends who I cherish and love. (U know who u are
)The funny thing is that I´m the one hunting and blasting away and he´s the one who strategises, so I quess we learn something new about our selves as well as from one another. Only unanswered question now is which one of us is the real addict?
Now for the most important part:
For all the wifes and husbands out there who don´t play; Give it a chance!
You may not go crazy over it but atleast you might understand a bit better.
And Zap IF I have once or twice been nagging about playing; I apologize!
If there are other couples who would like to share their experiences about this subject, it would be nice to hear them so please reply us
See u in game
Mrs-Zap
)
on this really nice post 
Welcome Ms Zapp 
