Alright, I have a nice story for you all. While I was growing up I had a dad, still do, who was part of the Airforce which his is not now. While I was growing up my dad ran across one of the first online games that would soon entrance and take over a lot of people's lifes. This game is called Utlima Online. This game is over 10 years old and at the time when my dad started I was around 10 or 11, I don't remember but I do remember that it was 6 months before the game directors decided to put more things into the game. You see, the game was in beta form for 2 and a half years so essentially this game had been out since I was 8 or 9. Well my dad played this game to his heart's content and the dad I once knew and the dad the spent time with me no longer did that, he wouldn't even turn an eye to playing a game with the family on the computer. My mom didn't seem to care and when we moved back to our hometown finally due to bankruptcy because he quit the airforce saying he wanted to stay with his family... He got my mom and my aunt into playing it.

This became the day where I had to grow up fast. I had a little brother and I had two cousins, one older then me, one younger them me. My aunt's husband was the only one that didn't play that damn online game but he slept all the time. It came to the point where the only time I saw my mom outside of the computer room or my dad was either them heading to work or one of them cooking dinner. My brother, my cousins, and I never had a chance to touch the computer until they were all asleep.

My cousin and I had snuck downstairs to get on my dad's and my aunt's or mom's computers to play this online game. At first we were entranced by the game. When my family moved out to move into a rentable house which we lived in for 2 years or so, or until I was 14. If that wasn't the half of it I had the pressure of being Mommy to my brother, starting to do more chores around the house which my parents used to do, and I was forming depression. I started hating myself, not understanding why my parents were sucked into this online game because I stopped liking the game after a while, I started seeing a counselor because of my depression. There was no ending to this game, no ending to us being online game orphans.

The 'family' moved into a new house when I was 14 and then the online games continued. My mother finally came back to us but the damage had already been done. I hated myself, my brother was starting to hate himself, I was 'mommy' and in control and when she tried to take my control away from me it was hard for me to let go, in fact I still want a control I don't have because I was used to being mommy and it's a shock to not be mommy.

Finally, when I was 15 a game called Horizons came out, Mom got back into gaming with my dad, my dad changed to Horizons and it was back to being the online game orphans, me resuming Mommy, my brother giving me no respect because my mom had tried to regain her position but went back to the online gaming.

This game eventually stopped running and my dad switched back to Ultima Online along with my mom. They played Ultima Online until World of Warcraft came out.

I will admit, the other online games weren't as bad as this one when it came to sucking my parents out from under us. My dad wouldn't come to dinner until it was already done and it had been 15 minutes or so. Eventually my father had decided W.O.W. was crappy and went to other online games, my mother went back to Ultima Online and she still plays it today. My dad switched from E.V.E. to Guildwars back to E.V.E. then to Guildwars before going back to World of Warcraft.

I will say, in general Online Gaming games like WOW, U.O. EVE, Guildwars, any of the sorts is horrible for a family. I was forced to grow up quickly, then when I worked on something hard, tried to get my brother to have decent morals it gets taken away from a person who tried to regain her mothership before she was take away again by the online games.

Online games are addictive, W.O.W. is the worst one out there for someone to be addicted to.

I might play an online game but I limit my time, I'm mostly chatting with people on messenger while I hide in my room because I don't have anything in common with my parents anymore despite the fact that I am now 18 and I like only one online game in which I don't play very often. Honestly, Online Gaming has screwed my family over... World of Warcraft though, it's the worst of them because the family time that was there slowly dissipated into grunts, television show then rushing off to play their stupid online games.