Now that's an easy question.
A good buddy of mine once calculated that if he had spent as many hours in college as he had logged into World of Warcraft he'd have a Bachelors degree. And that's with only one of the many video games he played. Massive multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG) like World of Warcraft are severely addicting. I used to play one of the first MMORPGs, Ultima Online. Hours upon hours were spent making a virtual character better when it could have been spent making myself better. Had I put that kind of time into real world hobbies, who knows what I could have accomplished or what kind of memories I could have made and shared. That's the con about video games; memories aren't made and skills are left untapped. What good are video game memories since you can't even share them with your children?
"Son, you should have seen my Orc shaman. I got him to level sixty with a complete set of purples to blow any Alliance scum into the next shard."
Would he or she even understand what you're saying, or care?
On a personal level, I've been slowly weaning myself off of the gaming addiction over the course of several years and have found that I enjoy making masks, woodcarving, playing the guitar, researching herbs and being creative with Photoshop. Plus, it gave me a chance to rekindle old hobbies again like photography and writing. And it doesn't stop there, I've become a better communicator and my attention span has increased.
That's not to say that I'm 100% against video games. Everything in moderation, because too much gaming is self-destructive.
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