The “Call of Duty” series is bad for your relationship, according to statistics conducted by UK online discount site MyVoucherCodes.
The study reveals that as many as one in five women have ended their relationships because of their partner’s gaming habits, and “Call of Duty” is apparently the series most likely to cause major rows. Eighty percent of women complain that their partners spend too much time on gaming and/or the internet, with seventy percent saying that resulted in arguments. Research head Mark Pearson noted that, “While men are more likely to spend their time running recon with, scoring goals against or shooting at people from all over the world, women are just as (much) to blame for the time they spend online for relationship breakups, according to the study… I’m no relationship expert, but it seems that as technology improves, our ability to interact with those around us lessens – hopefully these statistics will be the push people need to reassess the way they treat loved ones.”
Reaction to the study online at computerandvideogames.com has been predictably mocking, with comments ranging from the simply snide “Thankfully I’m single and will remain single for a long time” from poster YouGuysRock7, to the perhaps perceptive “The problem I’ve observed is that (the) majority of young women I’ve had relationships with don’t actually have a hobby of their own. And that’s always going to be a problem when one partner has a hobby… and one has nothing but the relationship” from Jensonjet, to the plain amusing, with female gamer Miss_Wacy declaring “prob(ably) big part of the reason why I get on with guys lots more than girls, I find lots of women over-react over nothing”.
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