Plato - regarded as the faster of Philisophy by many - suggested we don't see reality, but rather what is considered shadows of true reality, and we only see the true world, a place of perfection and majesty, through death. He suggests that the world we see is filled with shadows and imperfections, and we search for perfection til death.

 World of Warcraft, which for many, can become a reality, is large part of many peoples lives, especially those who raid. I hate those who label people who raid having an addiction, however, I don't eliminate the fact that people do have an addiction to the game, but why?

In the game, their is limits, there is a level where you cannot go beyond. Once achieving complete perfection of your character through your chosen path, you can do no more. Do people have an addiction of the game itself, or the offer of perfection that it others? Plato suggests in his theorems that once you've found perfection, you must be dead, completed. For example, once you obtain all the gear you can, max everything you can, you too are completed - the game offers closure of perfection.

Obviously, one may say this all on a materialistic level. But we all live in a capitalistic world, so materialism is a core factor of reality. Self-fulfillment is also a factor, but when those have an addiction to the game, their self-fulfillment is achieved through World of Warcraft, thus negating outside influence. Although this all on a theoretical basis, when applied logically to the behaviours exercised by people, it isn't as irrational as it may seem.

I also accept the argument that World of Warcraft isn't phsyical reality, so how can it possibly be perfection when it isn't real, but as Plato suggests, we accept the reality we are presented - so how can we accept what we see and experience - outside of World of Warcraft - is indeed 'reality'? People who create their addiction to Wow have chosen it to be their reality, as may say one may accept their life as that of raised in an Amish establishment with no knowledge of the outside world from that community, but instead they have chosen that reality.

In the end, the reality we accept to be true is always shadowed by something, our guilts, self-doubt or questioning its very reality, but the search for perfection makes any and all realities a mean of finding self-fulfillment. What's your reality?