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With more than 10 million players around the world logging in each month, World of Warcraft is one of the most profitable video games in the history of the medium. Those players range from casual "weekend users" of the game, to those budding World of Warcraft addicts who jack into the world of Azeroth every single day, to a third type of World of Warcraft warrior.

Those who never leave at all. The video game addicts. They survive on delivery pizza and Rockstar Energy Drink, and the World of Warcraft has become their only world.

I am here to tell you that up until mid-2007, a growing tendency toward World of Warcraft addiction was a serious problem in my life. It took a serious act of will to finally stop paying out $15 each and every month to do the same repetitive action over and over again, expecting different results.

Then, with the release of the Burning Crusade World of Warcraft expansion pack, temptation and the lure of video game addiction became too great to resist and I traded in the life of Jesse Sears, college student, freelance journalist and musician, for that of Sharpley, Gnome Combat Rogue, fighting an endless battle for the good of the Alliance with the onslaught Horde forces invading our poor cities and towns each and every day.

I even had a slight bout with World of Warcraft multiple personality disorder, a clear sign of World of Warcraft addiction, when I took on the role of a second Azeroth alter-ego, a Blood Elf Retribution Paladin called Secorra.

To satisfy the die-hard World of Warcraft addicts and other WoW players who have happened upon this article, here is a little about my history with the game.

I never hit level 70, or even came close. Sharpley capped out at level 39, where he stayed for months and months as I became addicted to the World of Warcraft battlegrounds. The cute little gnome combat rogue was a killer. My only character on the Hydraxis server, Sharpley spent hundreds of hours running around killing the same baddies for gold to buy the best gear and enchantments an instant-killer combat rogue could ask for.