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Originally Posted by Lovinglife  One word: addiction |
This largely depends on the person. I don't think most people get addicted to games, although it is possible. Games (good games at least) offer a constant work-reward loop as long as you play, and I think the most addictive games are those where this loop is very straightforward and never gets exhausted (meaning that the game can never be finished). Examples of such games include Counter-Strike and World of Warcraft. The latter was intentionally designed to have no ending because it's subscription based, and Counter-Strike is just something that can be played over and over again with a different experience each time.
But I think that in order to get addicted to games (or become addicted to anything really) you must have a strong reason for wanting to escape reality and substitute it with something else. If you're happy with your real life then the work-reward loop that a game offers would never be able to match (let alone replace) the reward you get from doing real life things. Games are intended to supplement real life, not replace it.