Very interesting to find this type of sentiment on hn.
But let me clarify: I lived the wow time.
It destroyed 3 relationships from friends I know, it broke carrier chances for 2.
Yes there is a difference between grinding a little bit of gold vs playing it all day, not doing anything else anymore for your life and bragging about being able to buy a month abo with in-game gold
I totally get the appeal of challenges in well running raids but there was always the one person who made the game the only life content.
And yes there are still people being hardcore addicted to games like shooter. Depressed friends risking everything worthwhile for it.
So as soon as you were paying back into your country you decided enough is enough and moved to a country with much higher social inequality?
Okay good for you but a weird brag.
One of my main reason not to go to USA is exactly that. I don't want to earn lots of money while my country people have to go to a Sporthall to get their teeth fixed once a year because you need to be special to go to a dentist.
Crypto right now is just to new to have been properly regulated yet.
And while you are true that you can run your own wallet, you are depending on the decentralized network, you do need a certain amount of stabity and you need to make sure you can recover and keep your wallet.
Enough people demonstrated at least with the last point and millions lost in locked away wallets that there are still fundamental problems.
Playing a little bit with game economics is fun to a certain point.