I looked at a person playing it at my old school on his laptop. His orc ( I think?) was clad in some sort of leather thong/strap and was wearing a cape with strange colors and decorations on it. The orc was shooting glowing blue orbs (I think they call those spells? I don't really know, as I got away from the MMORPG when I got tired of RumbleFighter and Trickster Online.) at some sort of monster that looked like it was supposed to be a turtle that breathed fire, though it looked more like a tree stump that spat flames instead. Then I looked at his laptop and saw it was one of those thousand-dollar laptops with the widescreen HD monitor, as well as a special keypad and keyboard for his addiction. Then I saw his face, fairly pimply, with the zoned out look that generally comes to people who play those games. When he died from the turtle-stump, you could see that he was a conflicted stew of emotions; his eyes were almost tearing up and his teeth were grinding, though he didn't make a fuss as we were in the library. Now, I knew him from the previous years as well, so I can vouch that he had put on weight from when I first met him. Before, he had the lean grade-schooler-entering-middle-school look, but now his arms were fairly flabby, and you could see from his shirt that he created some stomach folds when sitting in a slouched position. Before his orc died, I had asked him what he was playing and said one word, "WoW."
Poor bugger.
He was a nice kid and all, but he needed an intervention, or WoWaholics Anonymous, or something. World of Warcraft was all he really was interested in talking about. So yes, World of Warcraft is an addiction not seen since Everquest II.
