Most people are addicted to the game. I was for a while would play all day, and farm and raid. I would spend 8 plus hours a day sometimes, and it was cool at first. You were trying to get gear and make money. Raids required countless hours clearing trash, and then spending hours wiping to learn a new boss fight. After a while i realized that I had a second job, and that was wow. I was getting more stress from playing the game, and become distant in real life from people. My sleeping hours were erratic. I began to pull back from the game, by decreasing my playing time and cutting out fridays-sunday. Then i began to skip raids every other day. I began to realize that i would raid for hours to get new loot that would improve my stats 1-2 % at most. When my sunwell guild disbanded i took a couple weeks off, I did the occasionally pvp, but I usually log on and as soon as i finish i log off. I enjoy halo 3 more then wow now, at least you can have fun, and not worry pretend your living a real life in the game. I also saw that the other peoples ages varied, and you might count someone as a friend, but since its just a game, they move on. I think wow lost sight of its goals, and became to complicated, and lost its game life feeling.