Games are to play, not to live in them.

MMORPGs may be romantic and all flowers when people used to hard work for anything to get in them, but on the other side of coin, these games were full of depressed, broken people who had no other purpose in life other than waste more time into their second world where they are able acheive something. It was really unhealthy and dangerous hobby, i am so glad we have gone into the casual direction.
Today sure you could spend a lot of time at the game, but it is no longer a "must", mmorpgs these days are at last the games like they supposed to be, like in good old days of 8-16 bit consoles.