Why are people so addicted to online gaming?

I am a ninth grade student at Moline High School, and I am blogging about people with online gaming addictions. This website is a site that helps people get rid of their addiction for their online gaming. It says that it is a 12 step program to help people with their addiction. Online gaming is very addicting the online game World of Warcraft out of the 40% of the 11 million people who play that are addicted to it and some people end up killing them selves over video games. People live at home till they are like 40 years old and some people don't move out. One parent of a 15 year old kid abandoned all other activities to play the game Runescape and the father compared his online addiction to a heroin addiction. That is how bad some addictions get. Some kids play games like that for hours a day because they may get picked on at school and this is how they get away from that. A 15 year old boy in Canada ran away after having getting his xbox 360 taken away for failing grades and spending to much time on his xbox, later his body was found and the death was thought to be from the fall from up in a tree. That is some of the bad things about online gaming. So if you are addicted to a online game try to quit playing so much you never know someday you might want to take your own life like the 15 year old from Canada.