WoW expansion is taking over people's lives

World of Warcraft is the largest online multiplayer game on this earth and it boasts more than 8 million subscribers. The first expansion pack to WoW was released last Friday and it started the race for the first person reach the new maximum level of 70. I read an article by Seth Schiesel of the New York Times where he described his adiction how he now understands how people can die from playing video games for too long. It took him 76 hours in a span of 4.5 days to reach the new maximum level of 70. Read his article in the New York Times for more information.

Personally I think that it is outright dangerous how addicted some people get to video games. People sacrifice sleep and meals in order to fuel their addiction and often times players get close to killing themselves from exhaustion. I think that this era's generation of college students and high schooler's are playing way too many video games. I can speak from personal experience that the Freshmen on my floor spend an inordinate amount of time playing video games, and about four of my residents are absolutely adicted to WoW. I do not think it is healthy and people who constantly play video games do not contribute to society, they do not develop social skills, and they are wasting their life away in front of a screen. Something needs to change...