I really hope they don't stop selling games in brick&mortar stores. I have a limited download limit (25GB) and I can't afford to up that limit at the moment. So if I want a game and the only way to get it is to download a 5 or 8GB file, it won't be worth my trouble.

During my WoW addiction I played through the laggy parts. I was on a network with 22 others and they all connected (through 2 switches) to one router. I've played half of my time with more than 400ms lag.

I've been a WoW addict. But I quit, and it was because friends helped me get out of my room more. So yeah, it helps to go out and have real-life fun.

I've tried other games: Gears of War, Fallout 3, Drakensang, to name a few. But never really got into them as much as WoW. It's like I play an hour, say I've had fun and do something else, something productive. I read a book, do homework (yeah, college rocks) and I'm going out. Just have to find the right girl for me.

My advice is, try the game, then see how you react to it. But it's not like a drug. MMO's are like drugs, singe players games (maybe with multipleasure... multiplayer option) aren't that addictive. At least not to me.

I installed the updates on my two pc's and on neither did the standard browser change. I'm still happily using Opera 9.64. :)

I usually check how many versions there are. I've seen a product who was at version 0.9.something and it was in development for 2 years, most of the bugs had been sorted out and it was about to release to version 1.0. I'd use that product because I can see that they put time and effort into it. I saw another product that had been around half a year, was being fixed and was at version 6.something. I tried it, because I knew they were working on it. If I'd see a product release of 6.0 and not find previous versions mentioned I'd be more cautious because god knows how long it's been in testing and in development and it comes out under the 6.0 version. Damn that had to take some time to get everything right. Then try the product, see that there are still some major issues (and there will, trust me ;-) and have a feeling of "wtf did they do with all the previous versions?".