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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2955615" data-attributes="member: 151">No, they didn't die from an overdose, they died from neglecting their personal well-being.  If they'd done so with alcohol, it wouldn't have even been worth noting.  People do stupid things and any sufficiently large population will have such incidents.  Have a NFL playoff game in the middle of a snowstorm and there will invariably be people who volunteer to shovel out the stadium who lose fingers to frostbite and folks who catch pneumonia and die while waiting for tickets or running around without a shirt in facepaint while drunk.  That isn't the NFL's fault any more than a couple of obsessive Chinese WoW fans playing the game for 72 hours with no sleep suddenly having heart attacks and dying.  It's a sad fact that children are neglected across the world ALL THE TIME...but somehow it's different when they do it to play WoW or EQ than if they're alcoholics, junkies or sociopaths.  How is it different?  It's new and makes for great soundbites.Considering there are more than 6.5 million subscribers to the game, I'm guessing that you've met plenty and didn't know it.  My newest player didn't know that the rest of the group played some sort of MMORPG for weeks, since it didn't come up except during pre-game chat, which he often arrived late for.  Consider how many people on this very forum are WoW players, who DON'T discuss it here, for example.One thing you have to consider is that many of WoW's designers PLAY D&D.  Many D&D players ALSO play WoW.  It's not a zero-sum equation.  That your DMs have foregone D&D in favor of WoW says that you had a group that clearly wasn't really enjoying D&D very much, and furthermore that your group apparently consisted of a bunch of inconsiderate JERKS.  Not letting your fellow players know that you won't be attending a scheduled session because you've made other plans is just plain RUDE.  This may be because that the players in question, the DMs, actually are enjoying PLAYING for a change...but there's no excuse for picking up the phone and calling.  Millions of players worldwide manage to not obsess over said game.  WoW isn't the problem, it's a symptom.</blockquote>

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