WOW
is too addictive, a friend of mine once lost his job and had to move house due to doing no work and playing WOW constantly. He just stopped answering his phone and even stopped answering the door when normal friends tried to check on him.

I gave up when I realised that to actually advance in level you have to put about 5 hours a day in......
( TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Thu 21 May 2009, 16:22, 1 reply)

Wow's absurdly easy to level in.
That said, if your friends are ditching their lives and losing jobs over a video game, it's not the fault of the game for being "too addictive", it's a problem they have. (and a serious one, if it's affecting their lives that much).

I play WoW a lot (more than I ought), and still manage to have RL friends, a girlfriend, a job and occasionally do some exercise.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 22 May 2009, 11:49, closed)