Video games are designed to make you hooked and extract as much as they can from you. You are slaves on the world they created, wasting your consciousness away on a virtual world. And the grinding games are the absolute worst, its just the same gameplay over and over.
I think it is fine as long as you are having fun.
We are all addicts to something in the end. I'd say videogames is one of the most harmless addictions out there. At least you don't harm your own body like you do it with drugs and alcohol.
You lose your time which you could spend on something productive but who cares, you are having fun and that's what counts.
Btw in some games it is possible to make shitton of real money. You just need to learn how. It is not that your work disappears even if it is in a game. There are many rich kids with unlimited credit cards who are willing to buy your hard work for real money.
When you think about it, life is just another game. If money is you are after, you just need to find the most effective farming method. If it is fun you want, you don't care about money and do whatever you want.
*I am playing wow lately and making a killing there on the AH.
