Woman arrested for deleting savegame

A Japanese woman was arrested for wiping her boyfriend's save game data…

The jilted girlfriend, said to be in her thirties, logged onto her ex-lover's Lineage account with his username and password. Once there she deleted his game data including all the items, weapons and clothes he had collected.

Although the boyfriend did not suffer financially he reported the misuse of his account to the police. Police then reported the woman of Toyama Prefecture, to the Fukushima District Public Prosecutors Office accusing her of violating a law banning illegal access to someone else's online accounts.

The woman has admitted the crime. "I did it as revenge for breaking up with me," she told police.

The couple actually met through playing the game, love blossomed in the online RPG and the lovers soon met up. However the relationship did not last long and thoughts turned to revenge.

Imagine having your save games held ransom by a jilted lover. A treasured memory card held over a fire, "you better not break up with me or the Final Fantasy VII save gets it." Scary. Very scary.

Source: Mainichi Shimbun

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If my girlfriend/wife/mother/sister/bloke deleted my saves, I would...

Have them exiled to Siberia	27%

Have them sent to Alcatraz	11%

Have their head served on a platter	27%

Say "it's okay my love, it doesn't matter" then offer a foot massage	34%

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Comments

#1 - 20/01-2005 @ 23:05 : Trion3

the horror the horror

* Porter is now known as PorterWITHGIRLFRIENDWHOISHOT
Strayed: he shot his girlfriend?

Mjordan2nd: If you could be any fictional character, who would you be?
Chris: Spider Man
Tim: batman
Sidd: batman
Mjordan2nd: I'd be god

#2 - 21/01-2005 @ 00:23 : Ventura

I actually think I'd be extremely pissed if someone deleted my save games. Imagine playing GTA: Vice City to 98% and then losing everything :o

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#3 - 21/01-2005 @ 04:32 : [deleted user]

*jaw drops*

#4 - 23/01-2005 @ 03:09 : StevenT

muhahaha
must be a lovely woman ^^

#5 - 23/01-2005 @ 07:21 : McVries

that definately has to suck.
note to self, when breaking up with g/f, hide all game saves.

#6 - 23/01-2005 @ 09:31 : Weecka

Make backups of your save games before breaking with your girlfriend. And hide it as safe as it's possible. :)

#7 - 23/01-2005 @ 18:23 : slikrik

hmmm, 2 points to make:

1) If we all had an awsome partner, we wouldnt be spending so much time playing games ;)

2) If someone deleted my saves on a very long winded game, i'd go spastic!! (unless it was a genuine accident [in which case i'd just go mad])

heheh, i like that woman's style though lol, she obviously knew what would really piss him off lmao
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