I guess neither my Paladin or Priest will save me from this. I do play this game with my son. We have all our computers in the living room. My wife is in the same room deep in study for her BS RadTech. It gives us something to do together without interrupting her. For those who have teenagers one way to keep em out of the porn is a new GeForce videocard and computers in sight of the whole family. Of course the Church is a big part of our family. Maybe it won't work for you but it has for me. How do I know this? Its called a keystroke logger.
Same here. No doubt it keeps my 14 year old son out of a lot of trouble he could be getting into. Could be hanging out on street corners, "running with the pack" etc., but instead he spends time with his friends, often at the same location (they bring computers to each other's houses and plug them into each other's cable routers/switches). Quite a social event.
Unfortunately, it's contagious, and I don't mean this cyber-plague. Not only am I now hooked on this game, but so is my wife. Arguably more so. She gets into maintaining a family of characters that practice different in-game professions, scouring the world for various ingredients so that her Tailors and Blacksmiths can make the latest "matching outfits" for her bevy of characters, spending time making money by selling rare acquired items and "drops" for profit at the auction houses (also an avid real-world eBay seller), etc. It's really kind of endearing. Not my particular in-game interest, but endearing nonetheless.
Interesting how times and roles change and evolve. My 19 & 20 year old daughters think we're all nuts. ("You're playing that stupid game again?")
Seriously, I'm not trying to put your hobby down, but we Amercians - due to our economic success - have very sedintary work lives. We are also taking up quite sedintary hobbies, and the combination of the two is bad news for everyone's health.
If it helps sell the idea, explain to your kids that real-world sports is like an ATI X800XT videocard, but with real blood!