What has gotten into this world and MMORPGs?!

Originally Posted by DragoonKain

Some people take gaming way too seriously, and it shows when kids in Japan and China are killing themselves after they lose unique items, and starving themselves to play 60 hours straight of these games.

What's more is that there are sweatshops where guilds of people do nothing but play the game seven days a week, and sell their character or whatever to gamers in America. That's how they make their living. It's like online poker. People make it through college with the money they make playing online poker. Is that wrong? Do those 'losers' need to 'get a life' too? (just sayin'. I'm not condoning manic gamers' habits; I'll never touch a MMORPG in my life)

What scares you is that the internet is starting to merge more and more with reality.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

WoWDetox.com is a pretty eye-opening site. It looks like it's just a large guestbook where people post their stories of World of Warcraft addiction. Some of them are just depressing to read.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

^So are you advocating this form of escapism or decrying it?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.