I did it for 2 years. While i was living in the city would live on the pc mostly and play games all the time i wasnt working. Turned out i just hated city life

there are actually different type of gamers. Gamers that have no idea of a world that is out there and gamers that actually just are normal people (which are most of them). I agree that some gamers truly have health, social, etc.. problems because of gaming. Those are facts. I also think that some gamers were inspired to do certain 'things' because of games. Games can have a positive but also negative effect on people, it's just that people are to busy pointing out that it's either bad or good, and not both. This is because real crazy gamers can have a no-reality feeling, thus almost thinking that the world where they are living in is an game. So criminal actions tend not to feel really as criminial as it is in their cases. Yet there is also a side where you can relax with playing a game and you can just put all the tention aside. So there are two sides in this, not one, i think.

Oh there are horror stories I agree, kids in america getting guns and killing kids at school, or the guy who murdered another over the theft of a magical sword, but on the other hand how many people have been murdered over a careless word or a dog being kicked, it's like saying cars are to blame over road rage. a lot of the rumours that computer games influence most violance is pure myth. aaaaaaaaaaaaactualy I remember in the "old days" people blamed Dungeons & Dragons for exactly the same thing, even went as far as to make a movie over it.