Your analogy to WoW is a great idea! In fact, WoW appears to be very addicting, to an extent you usually don't want to have in a game. (Unless, of course, you

Your analogy to WoW is a great idea! In fact, WoW appears to be very addicting, to an extent you usually don't want to have in a game. (Unless, of course, you are the one who sells the game.) However, for the work you consider to be important, this is exactly the kind of addiction you want. In that regard, we can learn a lot from WoW. I'm sure they have more "tricks" than just splitting big tasks into smaller ones. A study about that topic would be very interesting.