please excuse my english, english isnt my first language
now i'm 19 years old, i played non stop from 15 to 18, i wasted 3 years of my life to this DEVIL game. i never had a day without runescape for 3 years, i played from 5 to 18 hours a day. 365 x 3 x 10 = 10'000 hours of time spent on this evil game, 10'000 x 6.5$ minimum wage = 50'000$

it happened to me after my freshman year...

i was 15, i was a happy boy during my freshman year, played soccer basketball and tennis...
until i was introduced to this game with a very bad graphic, called Runescape, at first i didnt really care for the game and just played it to pass the time.
As time went on, i found myself playing even more and more everyday. My Sophomore and Junior year, my life was like this.

1. wake up and go to school.
2. come home at 3 and played runescape from 3 to 11.

my parents tried to make me quit playing, but i didnt listen to them, i played 8 hours a day weekdays and 10+ hours on weekends, i barely passed my classes and i skipped school often

this was my everyday life, i often found myself playing this game and skipping school, ditching friends, doing nothing but sitting on my computer all day.
one time i binge played close to 18+ hours a day for 7 days .

it all came to stop at the end of my senior year when my runescape account bunny_mgl was banned, i was selling the game items on ebay.

my 3 years of work came to end, i was one of the richest player in the game. looking back at what i did and how i missed out and i wanted to kill myself. i was so mad that my work was erased, that my parents hated me because i treated them like crap, only friend i had was on the game,
my teacher told me to see the school nurse and she referred me to see Psychiatrist, we talked for 30 mins and i was taken in a police car to mental institution for having suicidel thoughts. when i told the psychiatrist that i had bought 5 extacy pill and thought about over-dosing myself with it,

i'm not the only one from runescape to have a life like this.

This game Runescape is such an evil game, you literally have to play 10 hours a day for a month or two to complete one skill and theres 20+ skills, the created of this game, JAGEX company hired Psychologists to make the game addicting so they can take away from a million people 5$ a month to play the game, in this game there is roughly 150-300 thousand people who are addicted to this game and their lives are being eaten. there is at any given moment 100-200 thousand people playing this game.

i want to rescue the other people who sunk into this game like i had, i want these big corporations to stop making these games so addicting and time consuming and eating lives of others.

i think my account getting banned was a help from god to get back into my life. now i'm in college 3rd year, i have a happy life. i go to church on sundays and spend time with my family.

i wanted to bomb the head quarters of this game company but i dont think voilence will solve this. plus runescape isnt the only game that is eating people's lives.