You ever read the Darwin Awards? I would think this qualifies under that, please don't associate the other 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of players with that one moron. Also have you ever played Mortalk Kombat and enjoyed it?
Beyond videosgaes, do you ever drink, do you ever drive, do you smoke? That list could go on an on of stuff everyone does everyday that could cause death if you were to take it to the extreme. Now just because some idiot goes and mixes drinking with driving do you go after all people who drive, or all people who drink responsibly?
If you think WoW is about quests you haven't played WoW. WoW is about raiding, too bad they made everything so damned easy. Original WoW was fantastic, TBC was meh, WotLK give me a dinner plate and a butter knife I'll tank anything!
First off thats the point of ditching school, WoW wasn't out till I was out of school. And I had ditched many a classes and my parents never knew. Isn't that the point. Most kids I knew ditching were going to do drugs though...
Second, there just isn't another genre that provides this much playtime, Blizz wasn't the company who coined month fees, so whats the point here?
And third an you link me all these articles about people dieing from WoW, I am now beyond curious. You make it sound like there is quiet a few of them, so lets see them. A general search on the net all I can really fine is, a Mortal Kombat caused death, a guy playing Starcraft to death, and a few others, none releated to WoW.
Now my question is why not talk about those, seriously to bring up something like this crap is just trying to start drama. Anytime you want a gamer to get real defensive tell him his game kills people, when you hear that crap on the news don't it just really irk you?