Re:The Game that Seized My Time (Score 2, Interesting)

It's especially horrifying if you take into consideration the monetary impact. I played from 11/04 til 07/06. So you've got $49.95 for the game and $284.05 in fees. But what really did it for me was the realization that if I had been doing productive work during my /played time, I could have held a full-time job. When I quit playing, I had approx. 2880 hours /played; spread over my 19 months playing, I was playing on average 38 hours a week. If you consider even a minimum wage job, that's still $19,440 that I could have earned! Obviously this isn't entirely true since I wouldn't be working at 2:00AM on a Saturday, for example, but nevertheless I found it quite shocking when I did the math. Even if you sell your account and get maybe $2000, you still are coming out far behind in the big picture.