You know sometimes parents spoil gamers by letting them use their CC to buy wow gold.

You mean the habit of playing video games instead of studying? The truth is entertainment media does affect people and is also a big factor in much of how they live and act. You can deny it all you want but people do commit crimes at least in part due to their involvement with such media. I'm not aware of just how many drop out of school but I do think it's on a larger scale than you the blogger realize.

I am also married, a father of 2 young kids (ages 5 and 7), a business owner and I hold another full time job.

EVERYTHING in my life is more important than the game. I spend time with my kids each day helping with homework and having fun. I have a healthy relationship with my wife and we spend quite a bit of time together. I pick up a lot of freelance work each month under my own business and I am a crucial member of staff at my day job. All of which I balance around my WOW life. I have an epic Night Elf Hunter and Druid and I am an officer in a guild that is raiding some high level content and I love playing the game.

I am able find a balance between everything in my life. It's not easy. I work hard to make sure everything has balance. I can tell you what I don't do and that's watch television. I may watch the odd show with my wife but I really could not be bothered watching someone else have an adventure when I can go online and make my own adventure and enjoy them with people I know.

Growing up and becoming an adult means learning how to balance the things in your life that you want to do with the things you have to do. If these students are so incapable of learning this skill that they drop out of college because of it then they really do deserve to work at McDonald's for the rest of their lives. It's all down to the natural order of things. Darwinism as it's best. These same people probably coast through school only learning what they need to know and nothing more, so they are better off out of school. These people are the type of person that will never amount to much at any career and the type of employee who only cares about a paycheck. I have never worked for a paycheck in my life. I've always worked for the company.

Maybe it's my ability to find balance in my life that makes me a success. But I find pleasure in pwning these idiots in the game who spend their whole lives playing WOW and they still can't do the DPS I can do.

They will look back at their lives and feel sick to their stomachs when they realize that all they have worked so hard to get are really only a bunch of zeroes and ones and owned by Blizzard.

If there's dudes out there who are so easily influenced by video games that said game can actually *initiate*, with no prior influences, the downward spiral towards dropping out of college…..I don't actually want those folks to finish. Devaluing a degree, I'd say.

All arguments about the current value of a degree in some arenas not withstanding.