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http://www.wowaholics.org http://www.wowaholics.org is full of stories like these. Thankfully, things like this dissuaded me from ever dabbling too deeply in W

• cheald 13y ago
  If you're prone to addictions, avoiding addictive systems is probably a good thing. I played WoW for something like 7 years, doing the high-end stuff like the high-difficulty PVE content and high-end PVP, got married, had kids, and launched a startup while doing it. I quit because I got bored with the game, and my interests moved on to other things. It's not inherently evil and guaranteed to destroy your life. The danger is that it offers a relatively quick and easy work-and-reward cycle, and can give you the illusion of accomplishment. If you let that illusion substitute for actual accomplishment in the real world, that's when you get into trouble. Having and keeping goals is a great inoculation against that sort of thing.