Slate‘s Clive Thompson writes about the increasing time commitment required of online gamers as they progress up the gaming food chain, contrasting that with the latest of the genre, CoH and WoW. Good read, but how in the FUCK did it take him three hours to reach level 5 in Warcraft? With all due respect, even raw noobs wouldn’t take three hours unless they were afk for 90 minutes. Maybe he’s one of those roleplayers — they take 4fe to level.