What’s World of Warcraft addiction like?

“I remember clearly after fumbling around life for a few weeks that I dragged myself into the bathroom to get ready for work. I was tired because I was up until close to 2 AM raiding. Every week I read though email or I would run into one of my “real” friends and I’d hear “Andy, what’s up, I haven’t seen you in a while.” I looked in the mirror and in a cinemaesque turn of events and a biblical moment of clarity, told myself “I haven’t seen me in a while either.”

Having played Dark Age of Camelot for two years, I can relate to some of this guy’s account of his WoW addiction. I got to the point where I didn’t feel good about myself after I’d play DAoC for hours on end. Just like the author, I think I too gained 30 lbs over the time I played the game. The best feeling came the day I logged into the game, gave aways all my gold and deleted my character from the server. I’ve almost got pulled into WoW a number of times, even bought the game twice, but I just won’t do it. These type of games leave me feeling depressed and they never amount to anything substantial. I need to spend less time at my computer, not more and installing a MMORPG isn’t a solution to spending less time.