Some interesting facts.

From the following article....

www.business2.com/article...10,FF.html

[qoute]The result is a game so addictive that the typical player spends 20 hours a week on EverQuest. That's about 8.6 million man-hours a month devoted to the game. (It took 7 million man-hours spread over 14 months to build the Empire State Building.) One-third of players 18 and older spend more time in the game world than they do at their paying jobs, according to Edward Castronova, a California State University at Fullerton economics professor who studied usage. Scarier still, some 22 percent said they'd spend all their time there if they could.[/quote]