Heh, WoW! It doesn't have to be soul-sucking. It just depends on what you want to do. If you want to be really competitive in either player vs. player, or in doing raids (dungeons for 10-15 people) then you have to play quite often, but just to check out the game and get started there's no necessity to invest a lot of time in it if you don't mind things progressing slowly. Then again, I am currently playing far too much myself, so . . .