WoW addiction is very, very real. Like a drug, WoW helps people escape reality. Players can feel nervous, anxious, agitated, depressed, and other unpleasant emotions. The sticky I’d like to see is not a reference to Blizzard or WoW, but all video games. Being perhaps that first step in understanding something that could be affecting their friends, family, and life goals like training and education. WoW addiction is real so be responsible and help the people whom I know you care about
Sorry, but I don’t buy this gaming addiction thing. It does have things in it which are addicting but it’s not the game people are addicted to.
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I’m fairly that a gaming addiction is more so a dopamine addiction. Gaming is more of a pleasure type activity anyway.
Sweet name btw
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Oh it’s very real.
Some people just try to minimize it or meme around it but they dont know what’s like having the mind of an addict.
Ignorance is a bliss for those souls.
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Can be a few different things, for some it’s adrenaline, others it’s the same as gambling. Thing is excluding drugs. People generally label the actual addiction. They don’t call it a cigarette addiction, they call it a nicotine addiction. They don’t call it a coffee or soda addiction, they call it a caffeine addiction. People have for a long time tried to create a taboo on gamers. This “Gaming Addiction” is nothing more then furthering that agenda.
make life interesting, combine several addictions in one.
If Wow is replacing other addictions, like say drugs, alcohol, smoking, or casual sex, then id say its having a positive effect on their life.
WoW wont cause your liver to fail, or get you an STD, or make you look like a living zombie in 15 years.
eh someone is going to bring up the kid that refused to get up so died in a puddle of their own waste.
You can be clinically addicted to anything. But with gaming, but it’s often harder to define and measure when it’s an activity rather than a substance. Regardless, I hardly think research on gaming addiction is “anti-gamer”, it’s just what they call it when people have a problem where they let their games consume their lives in ways that are detrimental to them, physically and mentally.
In the West, we usually acknowledge that only a very small percentage of gamers actually have this problem, but it’s actually a bigger deal in Asia.
Even if applicable, that happened once, meanwhile more than 88,000 people die from alcohol related deaths each year in the United States, and countless more world wide. (I dont believe this number counts for deaths indirectly related to alcohol like drunk driving crashes.)
It really isn’t a thing, every single thing that makes a video game addicting is already an actual classified addiction. Yes there is things in a video game which may be addicting. However classifying Gaming itself does more damage then good and the damage is two fold. It furthers the taboo on gaming, and it stops people from getting the help they actually need. If you simply remove a “gaming addict” from video games they will only go to another source of which ever actual addiction it is filling the hole for.
or what about the many good things gaming has done? Why do we need prop up negativity instead of positivity?
WoW has done a lot of good things in my life, and has helped me grow as a person and feel connected to people, where otherwise i wouldn’t.
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I may use it as an escape, but I face reality also. 
in my work and social life.
Based on the amount of people we see daily hate the game, call the experience suffering or saying playing bfa feels terrible yet they are still playing, I would say addiction is a very real thing for some WoW players.
It is clear some have been far too invested in WoW and aren’t psychologically able to abandon it so a cycle of negativity is their only choice
Plus all the people who get triggered the moment someone says anything regarding reality as if they desperately NEED to hide in a virtual reality because they can’t cope with the real world
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Its political, one of the groups trying to do this is the gun lobby, trying to shift the blame of violence away from guns and onto “ultraviolent video games”.
I dont know where this video game addiction nonsense comes from, but I wouldn’t be surprised if big pharma is also pushing it. Can you imagine the ads?
“if your kid is addicted to video games, try our new drug, it’ll knock the controller right out of their hands and send their soul to school forever”
Yes, but the things they are addicted to isn’t the video game. If removed from the game they will simply find another addiction. They will either show themselves as adrenaline junkies, or the social addict, or perhaps even other more damaging things. The truth is, gaming isn’t an addiction. It only has things inside it which feeds certain addictions.
Denying that gaming addiction is a thing is like trying to hide the sun with a finger.
I don’t want to get political for this because it’s a very sensitive topic.
Seriously if you think it’s not “real” open more your eyes is my advise to you.
Mental health also is important and a serious topic that should be look upon with respect and seriousness like any other disease.
As I said, it’s not something that’s not defined or measured in a very objective way. In fact, if you attempt to do research on it, you’d find that most of the material on addressing “gaming addiction” tell you not to focus on removing the game away, but to try to find out why people are turning to it for their escapism.
Sometimes when I tell people how much I’ve played wow they are like 
“imagine what you could have done if you didn’t spend all that time on wow”
Nothing, it’s either wow or another game or t.v 
There is no reality where me not gaming = becoming a doctor or some other shananigans
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Then it’s not even an addiction but a bad coping mechanism. People do become addicted to things while trying to escape reality and self medicating. But the addictions they face are real. Every single time, the only real way to stop a actual addiction is to get them away from the addicting behavior.
There is simply more to addiction then… I do this thing because life sucks.