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What is Video Game Addiction like?

What is it like to be addicted to video games? Most people don't understand how powerful and life changing video game addiction can be and think people who are playing 2,4,6 hours a day are already addicted. This is far from the truth. Playing that little won't change your life the way a real addiction will. For most people who get addicted, it usually means getting addicted to one game, usually massively multiplayer, hardly is it ever single player.  Massively multiplayer games are games such as World of Warcraft, Eve Online, League of Legends, and Dota 2. These games involve putting in a lot of time and effort to get good. At some point in this journey there are people who cross a line where the game becomes more important than real life. No one really knows where the line is but one thing is for sure there are certain people who are predisposed to becoming addicted. And it isn’t a particular game, it is the person in question, as a person like this can stop playing their f...