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I believe the purpose of life is to be happy. As much as we can analyze all aspects of life; whether it's social interactions, evolutionary biology, the Cosmos, etc., it all leads to the result of ultimately being free from suffering and being happy, which could be said true for all sentient beings. Playing WoW, as research articles have tried to prove, can improve many skills that can be applied to real life situations. These skills range from problem solving, marketing (playing the auction house, managing/investing currency), social skills (how to interact with strangers, becoming a member of a guild, which in itself teaches the individual quite a great deal), and ultimately how to display yourself as a good person. These developed qualities can be implemented in real life and many of the WoW players I feel will do that when they're ready and realize there's more to life than striving to get ahead in an endless cycle of irrelevent progress on their computer. We cannot survive without human affection, and being present with others is one of the keys to true lasting happiness and it cannot really be achieved through WoW. But it is a useful tool to have fun and enjoy yourself with moderation, and there are many out there that need to be educated in regards to learning that there are potentials of our human happiness, and it has a limit on a game like WoW. So, yes it's very addicting and is a problem to thousands out there, but there are much bigger problems in this world than this.