Careful with WoW.
seriously.
my ex GF (who was not working at the time) went from playing for 1 hour a day to 60+ hours per week.
not sure how the math works, but between Sept. and Dec., she logged in 37 days worth of gaming time..in 3 months..
no joke.
what pisses me off about that game is that the game encourages people to play at times when the rest of the world is socializing with real people in person- eg. dungeon raids planned for fri/sat nights with double exp. points etc. etc.
from what I understand, when you first start off the game, you can do something meaningful with your characters in an hour or so..later on, to do the same thing, takes 6 or 8 hours..hence, the addictive nature..
for anyone that doesn't believe how addicting games like this (there are others) can become, go to
www.gamerwidow.com
and browse around the forums - marriges ended, children neglected. School grades going down the tubes.
its serious stuff even though it is new.
(in the case of my ex, her pets became neglected..)
its not a joke folks.
please be careful.
and thats my rant (ps my current GF is not a gamer:headbang2
:>)
The solution is to marry a fellow gamer addict like I did
We do play a lot, but my husband never misses work, our pets are not neglected, our son is not neglected, I even homeschool him so I spend more time with him than kids typically get to spend with parents in this day and age, I cook 3 meals a day for my family, although sometimes we just do cereal for breakfast and sandwiches for lunch, but I prepare them or help prepare them, we go to all our family functions and with 34 brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, 2nd cousins within a 15 mile radius that is fairly often lol. It's just that instead of watching football, we play games, instead of watching Oprah, we play games, instead of going to the movies, we play games, etc. It's our hobby =) It's all about managing your time and having the right priorities and understanding that skipping a raid to bake Christmas cookies or color Easter eggs is a good thing, not a bad thing (yes I've been reprimanded by guildleaders for doing both activities, needless to say those guilds were 2 less players immediately cause my husband and I both left em hehe).
It sounds to me like your GF might have been using the game to escape reality, if it's all she was doing and neglecting everything else. That is a bad thing. I've met so many who have that problem and I think if they'd not found games they'd be alcoholics, drug addicts, or even suicidal. They just need something because they can't deal with reailty. They really need help, but at least gaming isn't as permanently desctructive as drugs and alcohol and suicde are.
I think a lot more people are going to be turning into online gamers with the prices of everything going up so much. It's a very economical past-time if you've already got the computer.
