Now, I always was, and still am, opposed to these fancy “Internet addiction” or “WoW-addiction” understanding. Because who decides how long is too long on the net? On WoW? If, instead of playing WoW, people just read and read (as a child, since it wasn’t very interesting at home, I was always in my room reading, I had periods where I read one to two books a day)… welll was I a “book-addict” and should I have been to a BA-meeting (Bookeaters Anonymous)? People saw me as a very weird person who didn’t get out enough…
No, let’s face it, some people will put more in the game than others and if they weren’t on WoW all this time, they would be in a bar, or in the city, or somewhere else, “addicted” to something else. And in this case, WoW isn’t the worse place to be.
Sometimes, I imagine a meeting in WA (WoWAddict Anonymous), where one guy says:
– I have now been WoW-free for two weeks!
– GRATS! say the 12 others…
No, we don’t speak of addicts. We speak of noobs and nolifers. And that’s easy to find out:
– Anyone worse than me is a noob, anyone better than me is a nolifer!