Quote Originally Posted by RiyahArp View Post
Because raids really do take a lot of time.
During Cata and MoP in WoW I was raiding with the #2 and then the #1 guild on my server. When we were pushing hardest at progression, we were still never raiding more than 11 hours a week because real life just didn't allow for much flexibility in their schedules. Normally the raid week was 7-8 hours. I still had plenty of time for my friends that weren't raiding or even playing WoW.

It comes down to how many commitments you've got going simultaneously in your life and how well you've learned to manage your time.

Sometimes people refer to other people as friends when they really aren't. They're just people they know casually with a single interest in common and they don't associate outside of that interest. Once upon a time, those people would have been called acquaintances instead of friends but social media's insistence on labeling everyone as a friend has warped what friend used to mean.

As interests change, people with very little in common are going to drift apart. That applies to real life friendships as much as it does game friendships. We all change over time. Trying to blame a game for a loss of a friend is silly when the reality is the friend just had a change in interests.