Are you in the dog house yet?Follow

My wife looks at my gaming time as time for her to do crap alone that I hate to do..

e.g. Going out shopping with her girlfriends, having the girlfriends over to watch TV, etc...

My gaming time = her time with the girls

My wife played with me on FFXI which was awesome. I sat there on my PC and cliked away and she did the same on our ps2 (notice the my and our). But know with EQ2 having only one PC its all of a sudden or PC and she wants her turn on her character. Now I'm stuck sitting on X-box live playing halo 2 looking at the clock swapping every 2 hours on the pc. 2 HOURS on the game thats it. I can't do $hi7 in 2 hours

AHHHHH!!!!

Note: this is for the weekends, who has time on the weekdays at my age anyway >_<

Edited, Wed Nov 17 23:49:56 2004 by rockiesbluetaco

Even spouses that play together get mad at each other on occasion. The problem is, it's not because we play too much, it's more along the lines of "I TOLD you we couldn't handle all of them.... I DIED THANK YOU VERY MUCH".... 10 minutes later and three shard recovery runs (and shared debt xp) later because you died in a very bad spot...... "the evil eye" starts lol

I got a good laugh at those that share with me the "wait till the wife is asleep" game play. I am also lucky that she tends to head off to bed much earlier then I do.

How true!

I get the "didnt you hear me say I needed a heal???"
and I usually retort with "well what kind of pull was that? You think you're frikking Superman or something?"

yeah things can get tense but in the end youre still spending quality time together and are arguing about little things instead of issues of a higher status. I'll pick arguing over whose fault we died anytime over why we dont spend tiem together.

My wife has been pretty good about EQ2. She's not a gamer. I'm very envious of you people with gamer spouses. I make up for it by creating media for her busines with my Mac G5 dual 2.0GHZ which sits next to my PC.

*kill*
*edit business card logo*
*kill*
*edit business card text*

etc.

Haha! Well more women are getting into these games now but for the longest time they wern't ever seen. My girlfriend also plays, I can't say shes more into it then me, but she doesn enjoy it very much. I am already about 2 levels above her IE in big trouble so I have to find things to occupie me in the meantime, I got 2 levels ahead by doing innocent "quests" which netted me gobs of xp. I found a solution, craft. Craft your heart away. =) Harvest and craft and craft some more. ;0 I made myself a 6 slot backpack with 10% weight reduction last night. Woot!

Been single for a year now thanks to FFXI. Now that I'm off of that POS game, I have 3 girls who are crushing on me. But EQ2 is here, and my video card is 4 weeks away :( So I still have time before I open the big pearly gates to the dog house :D

lol, someone should buy me a new vid card :S I have bills and a car related problem that have to be attended to first, and thus I won't have the moola to pay for a new one for at least another month.

Help! *cries*

My boyfriend has started threatening to ban TV in the office so that I can't play EQ2 and watch CSI at the same time. Forcing me to not play as much and let him catch up. So far he has not carried through with this threat, but he did make me stand around in the Graveyard and watch him kill skeletons last night as punishment for leveling up too high.

We both play so we can group and spend time together, but at this point if we group he does not get xp (he is level 8, I'm level 12) so he makes me watch him fight and be there when he needs to yell for help. Oh yes and listen to him complain that if there was PvP he would be happier :)

I'm actually kind of afraid to get my wife interested. First off I only have one comp and don't like sharing, secondly if we did get a second comp she'd want me to always play (if she was interested) and I do get tired of gaming every now and then. Getting her to like EQ2 would be a dangerous gamble.

Well, my experience - I am a woman and I was VERY much in the dog house with my boyfriend for playing Everquest. It even led to our break-up (he didn't like me leveling ahead of him & grouping with others). Prior to Everquest he spent more time playing computer & PS2 games which I was understanding of. I've only played for 3 months and I'm SO ADDICTED I spend about 30hrs a week playing (and work!) - so it's not only men.

Both men and women are capable of sulking instead of telling you what they want and that doesn't make time spent with them more enjoyable. Women win the arguments true, that's because we naturally talk more therefore we are better at it (read 'skill-up' lol).

In my opinion the words 'you're playing that stupid game again' should never be spoken. If the person you love enjoys something & it makes them happy, that has to be respected. Try pointing out that it's your hobby - and a relaxing/thought-provoking one too. Of course spending time together is needed, I submit this should be something you're both interested in + hugs + compliments. One more thing - women don't actually ENJOY nagging & get fed up of themselves, maybe you just need to talk the problems through and agree a solution.

NB I play EQ1 not EQ2, just looked here to see what EQ2 was like and no I have no plans to switch over, way too much to do in EQ1, but I like to join in interesting threads.

Luckily i have a pretty understanding gf (it wasn't always that way). She is used to me sometimes playing for hours and hours because of EQlive. When we first got together I don't think she realized I played as much as I did but after a while, and a bit of explaining that computers and computer games were my hobby she slowly began to understand. If i plan on playing more than 3+ hours i try to set it up so that she is working, going to school, or has her own plans all day. I also try to mix it up a bit, for instance, if one night i go overboard and play all day/night while we could be spending time together, the next day I will pull myself away from the computer for the day so that we can do something together. While I do love the game I try to remember that it is just that, a game.

Me and my fiance play, not at the same time. While we would get anouther PC and play together..we would never get off, and the kids(we have 2) would be neglected. So we share, he plays during the day, during most of the week(he works 12 hours shifts Sat. Sun amd Mon), while I take care of the kids, and household chores(I am a stay at home mom). After suppertime, I play while he gets kids set and put in bed. On weekends when he works..I play a little in the morning while the kids play and have their breakfast..until lunch time-then take kids out and whatever. Once my fiance gets home around 6pm he plays unitl 10pm then goes to bed..and I play til 2 am. LOL We stay at the same lvls by doing so. He just turned 19, and I am almost 19(2 yellow bubbles). It works out good for us.
We got addicted to EQOA after a friend he worked with gave us the game(he was a diehard EQ1 player, and didn't like eqoa). We played it for about 2 years and tried EQ1, but didnt care for it that much. We also had FFXI, played if for a 2 weeks and sold it on ebay-we hated it, then we got CoH..fun at first, but way too easy and repetative. We were both very excited and couldn't wait for EQ2..and we are soooo addicted. :) No dog house here for us......we still have "us" time also. :)