Quote Originally Posted by Djinn View Post
People can get addicted to anything, i'm sure everyone who's posted in this thread, myself included, has been addicted to something to a point where its affected their lives... i don't know why people place so much emphasis on how video games affect people's lives, especially WoW.

Oh no, someones addicted to a video game, i can think of worse things to be doing to be fair. At least they're not shooting up or taking roids or something.
Quoted for sexyness.

I played WoW for 4-5 years, taking breaks here and there. I also have had a girlfriend for that long as well (who doesn't play WoW or anything like that and no I did not meet her in the night elf village). I always choose her over the game, but that hasn't stopped me from being good in WoW. Yeah, there are people that raid every night at a certain time, but you can be successful in the game without doing that.

I also was the first blood elf on my server to hit 60 (kinda let off the race from 60-70) when The Burning Crusade expansion came out. I even went to two parties during that time. No, I didn't get much sleep during the couple days where I was doing this, but I had the time off from work and school so it was okay.

You can have fun with WoW or any MMO, and you can be successful without having to spend every second of your free time on it. A lot of the people that played more WoW than I did didn't really accomplish that much more than I would. They just wanted to be logged in and had nothing better they wanted to be doing.

But who are you to judge what people are doing with their time? A person can do whatever the hell they want as long as they don't harm other people. Some people may be ignoring and missing out on life while they play, but that's up to them. They aren't going to die from being addicted to WoW like a drug addict would die from being addicted to heroin.

Those "parents" that let their kid die because they were playing WoW are ridiculous, but who's to say that wasn't going to happen anyway in a world without WoW? It probably would have.