"And so I can say to all the potential game programmers out there who are playing this stuff: put it away. It'll kill you. It'll drain away your ability to improve yourself and it'll dilute your primary passion: coding. Instead of running home to code up a new idea, you'll run home to waste four hours doing nothing."

The article echoes these sentiments like so:

I have come to the same conclusion as Mr. Reinhart, but not because I am a programmer. MMORPGs require way too much of my life for what they give me in return. Yes, I can have fun with them, but the time I spend on them is time taken from my family or my other hobbies.

So what about you, faithful RPGDot reader. Do RPGs, online or off, take up too much of your time? Could there be something better for you to... wait! Where are you going? Don't leave!