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Here's some backstory:
My dad is middle-aged american, with a russian wife, her russian daughter, his half-russian daughter (by him), and myself whom he created from a previous marriage with an american. He started his own computer shop after working in the industry pretty much all of his life.I've been working there off and on since september, mostly running and managing the servers we have set up there. ( I do a bunch of web dev to make my money, so I usually do my work there )
It all started in September of 2006:
Well, my friend Henry had a class called Internship at our high school (we're seniors) and he came along to work with me and did his internship there as he is interested in computer repair. Henry plays FlyFF and before long, My dad, coworker Tim, coworker Larry, and myself were all playing it.
I quit about a week into it; i just can't stand MMO's anymore really. Games in general, actually - I'd rather mess about with networking and servers and linux, doing what I do best. Coworkers Tim and Larry quit after about two months of playing, as they just got bored with it. However, my dad continued. I was not aware of his use of the FlyFF store in which you can buy items in-game with real life money in order to make the game easier.
( http://flyff.gpotato.com )
Fast forward to April 2007:
My dad is playing FlyFF every waking moment, if he sleeps. I only see him at work, because he never comes home. He missed my stepmom's anniversary, his daughters birthday, christmas, the whole lot. Last time I saw him at home was on Easter for about two hours to give his half-russian daughter a dollar general easter basket. Thoughtful. According to my stepmom they haven't hosed in a year.
My coworkers and I have tried to get him to stop playing, but he won't listen. We blocked the FlyFF ports on the routers, he resetted them. We uninstalled it from all of the machines. He reinstalled it and fired Tim & Larry. So now it's just me and him. Me doing all the work, and him playing FlyFF constantly. I had to abandon my role as web developer to repair computers - not something I particularly enjoy doing, in order to "help support the family" because we are having money problems. I didn't know why, the store is mildly successful, gaining a decent lower-middle-class profit yearly. I didn't know what was going on, neither did my stepmother. She guessed all of the misplaced money was because he was cheating on her and supporting another woman. This was quickly shot down as he has no time for anyone; he plays FlyFF all day long.
Fast forward to April 11th:
I am in school, in my novel-online class. I decide to check our paypal account (my dad and I share a paypal account) as I was supposed to be getting funds for a website this morning. Upon logging in, I notice a bunch of Gala-Net transactions. Realising Gala-Net is the company behind Gpotato and FlyFF, I quickly ran a search for september 06 through today.
$7,000 total was spent in 7 months in buying OPTIONAL items from a FREE MMORPGs store. It's hard for us to put food in the refrigerator because of this. Our rent is a month late, and we were without water for a week.
I now realise everything he said was a lie. I had been working at his store doing his work for free to support his FlyFF addiction, not my family. The rest of my family doesn't see their father (or husband, in my stepmothers case), only if they decide to drive to his work (about 5 miles away) to see him.
I showed my stepmother the PayPal account about an hour ago, and she left after crying on my shoulder.
My stepmother just informed me he lied on his taxes while they were still in Russia. He is using her credit cards in her name occasionally to pay for FlyFF gpotatos. Somehow, he has, IN HER NAME, accumulated $40,000 in debt. She tried to get a cell phone plan, and they denied her for a horrible, horrible credit rating.
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เจ้าของกระทู้ยังเป็นนักเรียนนะครับ ทำงานอยู่บริษัท computer ของพ่อ
วันนึง ก็มาเล่น Fly For Fun กัน ซักพักก็เบื่อเลิกเล่นไป เพื่อนร่วมงานที่เล่นด้วยกันก็เบื่อเลิกไปหมด
แต่ ตัวพ่อ ที่เป็นเจ้าของบริษัท ไม่เลิก เอาเวลาทำงานมาเล่นเกม ใช้ router ใช้เครื่องบริษัทเล่น
พอลูกกับเพื่อนร่วมงาน พยายามบอกให้เลิก ลบเกม บล๊อกเกม พ่อเขาก็ไล่เพื่อนร่วมงานออกไปหมดเลย
มาถึงตอนนี้ เขาใช้เงินไปกับเกมนี้แล้ว 47,000 เหรียญสหรัฐ (คูณ 35 ก็ราวๆ 1 ล้าน 6 แสนบาท)
จนบ้านและครอบครัวโดนตัดน้ำตัดไฟ แถมใช้บัตรเมีย จนหนี้ทั้งหมดไปลงที่เมียด้วย
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