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This is a subject that a lot of fuss has been made of recently, particularly with the mother in America claiming her son's suicide was caused by an addiction to Everquest, and with computer games getting more realistic and more involving all the time, its true that sometimes I just go on too long (although diablo 2 has been consigned to the Recycle Bin of history as far as I'm concerned ) and sometimes it affects my work slightly. But those occasions are rare.

This article seems to me to completely overdramatize the issue, by saying that there is something pyschologically wrong with people who enjoy these games. If you class them as abnormal, then that's a rather alarming percentage (how many people play Everquest regularly, not even considering DAoC, Diablo 2, Ultima Online etc).

Essentially what I'm asking here is do you think computer games can be classed on a similar level to drugs, as the above article suggests, and is the social abnormality discussed any different from a bunch of yobs getting pissed and smashing a few shop windows (although a little quieter).