Removed from Reality

http://io9.com/5055863/british-gamer-killed-over-gaming-grudge

Welcome to the dark side, and I don't mean the evil side. I 'm talking about the side that includes the people who live in the dark in their mom's basement in front of a computer screen at the age when they should have a job and should maybe be thinking about getting married and settling down (away from home) sometime soon. This is the dark side of teens who get home from school every day and proceed to step away from reality and into a video game and will remain there for hours at a time, glued to the screen.
Over all, I don't think that these worlds that exist on the internet are a bad thing for people who have some self control, but some people who play these games too much become immersed in these alternate realities that they create for themselves. This article from September of last year is an example of a man who did step away from his computer screen, but forgot to take the crucial step back into reality.
It's a problem that is slowly but surely becoming more prominent. The fact of the matter is that the worlds created in games like W.O.W. and Runescape are much more interesting and fun to many than the world in which we actually live, and some people have trouble choosing these fantasy realms over reality. Reality sucks, and some would rather not have to face it.
This isn't a huge problem yet, but it is a problem that will need to be addressed in some way or another at some point. It will just get worse until someone does something about it.