The vast majority of long-term WoW players definitely do it for the social experience. The whole experience of raiding has a similar feel to sports teams, in fact. Overall, it’s just one big social network and WoW is just that thing we all have in common to talk about. Anyone who has done laps around Undercity, Shattrah City or Dalaran accomplishing literally nothing in-game while spending countless hours on ventrilo knows what I’m talking about.

The way I see it… as long as I can maintain my full-time job and still skip even “the best raid nights” for my “real life” friend’s birthdays on a moments notice… in my eyes, I’m not addicted ;)