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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3645374" data-attributes="member: 4134">I guess the two parents, and the two children. The children obviously need help because they're starved and have lousy parents, so they need to be fed and treated properly, and unless those parents show real regret and improve considerably, they'll need someone else to take care of them.The parents need help because they're obviously very wrong in the head. Maybe you're like that (well, actually, unless you lied to us, or to yourself, you're definetly like that). And maybe the typical MMO player is like that, too. But People with issues playing those games do exist, and we're not talking about two or three people worldwide. I personally know 4 people who were adversely affected by WoW (though some worse than others):One guy, one of my Ex-DMs, started to lose his appetite for D&D after starting to play WoW. And the whole group suffered because of it: He'd cancel games - frequently, usually an hour or less before the game started, and for reasons that sounded too much for excuses - when he did come the first hour would be spent talking to the other DM in that group, who also played, and they were talking about WoW exclusively in that our. One day he was 2 hours late because a "Lieutenants' Meeting" lasted longer than he expected (of course, he didn't think he should tell us that it would be longer, and of course he didn't even think of telling the others that he had prior commitments). The next guy is the other Ex-DM. As I said, the first our of each gaming session (those we did have), would be spent talking about WoW. He also has quarrels about WoW with his girlfriend (which also plays in that group), and I stopped going to parties he hosted long ago because if you didn't play WoW, you could as well talk to the plants.In the end, I quit that gaming group when yet another game was cancelled last minute because of something. Those two were the light cases.Another guy I know quit playing WoW after he realised that the game messed him and his life up big time. He never regretted his decision.The last case involves someone who's now in therapy for his addiction to WoW. I won't say that it was all the game or his reaction to the game (he was very unpredictable before that), but after he started playing, he just didn't bother going to work because of it (and was, of course, fired at once).Sure, much of this is the person, but as has been mentioned above, WoW and games like it are created to encourage becoming addicted, with methods that are a lot like those that make people compulsive gamblers. I must say that of the people I know played WoW and were the worse for it, all but one was all but socially reclusive or lax with personal hygiene!</blockquote>

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