Avatar games like The Sims and glad Farmer has become hugely trendy in China, where people expend their days playing on-line non-stop.
Other than in Beijing Shunyi District Court dismissed the petition People’s half virtual property Chao Shan, unless they can prove that they had all the economic value of the real world.
But it’s not the first time a couple’s online activities have been dragged into divorce proceedings.
In 2008 Brit Amy Taylor filed for divorce from her husband after catching his online alter-ego having sex with another woman in alternate reality game Second Life.
She had hired a virtual private detective to investigate after her husband had sex with a prostitute in the game, and then caught him ‘cheating’ again with another online character.
However it ended happily, with online gamers find love with a man she met playing World of Warcraft.
