http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_chatfield_7_ways_games_reward_the_brain.html

“Gaming can make a better world” – Jane McGonigal

http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html

If a someone ruins their life because they play WoW all day, it is their choice. Every addiction begins with a choice. Nobody forces anyone else to become addicted to anything (unless someone else stabs them in the arm with some heroin). Once someone makes the choice to do something that will cause them to become addicted, their choice is taken from them by the addictive behavior and overcoming that becomes exponentially more difficult, yet it can be done.

Addiction to WoW (or anything else) comes from a personal choice to use it too much. It is not the fault of the game nor of them game makers. If the game was not exciting and enticing then it would not sell.

The victim mentality is to put all the blame on other people and things. The victim mentality is in fact bad. There is nothing good that comes from the victim mentality. The opposite of the victim mentality is the hero mentality. A hero is someone who takes responsibility for their actions. They recognize a problem and instead of blaming the results on something or something, they find the cause of the problem and fix it. Affixing blame is never positively effective. Addressing the cause and affecting change is much more positively effective.

WoW is not bad. Choosing to misuse it is bad.

They are both bad, but WOW is much worse.

Comparing WOW and TV is like comparing Heroin to Pot. Its easy to say they are both negative, but in the end one is going to do much more harm.