Just curious but if your buddy suddenly stopped playing EverQuest and started canoeing instead, would you say that he was addicted to canoeign and that it was evil and that the canoe industry was only interested in peoples money?
BTW: how much doe sit cost to rent canoes? I'm guessing it is more than $9.99 a month.
I whish people would get off this trend of labeling everything as an addiction. Get over it guys.
And how many of you watch TV or even worse browse the internet regularly? Or visit FreeRepublic multiple times a day?
Maybe you're all addicts! LOL!
Well, considering that he used to love canoeing (mostly floating and drinking, to be honest) and also was very outgoing in other ways, I'd say it is our loss as his friends that he never goes out anymore.
His PC crashed a few months ago, and I offered to help him set it all back up with Windows XP, new video card, etc., and once we got it all loaded he insisted on loading all five or more EverCrack CD's, and testing the finished loaded game, before he'd agree to shut it down and take it home. He has become obsessed with the game, in every way.
Sure I log on to FR several times a day, but I don't freak out when I can't for whatever reason. He was visibly agitated until he was sure EverCrack was running okay on XP... I've never seen anything like it.
BTW - when he called me after his PC crashed it was the first time he had called me in months, and we used to talk several times a week.