I played EQ quite a bit, 3 or 4 nights per week and a bit on weekends, I probably never went past the 20-25 hours per week, except very rare occurences. I know some in my guild were a lot more involved and a couple were whiny loot whores going very far to get stuff or attention whores or both at once, but I don't think I ever witnessed this level of crazy.
I can tolerate a lot, I can even excuse WoW kids, after all they are kids protected by anonimity, I'd have done the same stupid shit in some cases, so that's excusable to a point, but this... this is religious fanatism for a person who is selling something like an idea, except it's not really an idea, it's more a guideline, but not original, in fact it's as unoriginal as it's possible to be and they are in line waiting to throw money at this individual who not only wasted millions in the past, but also lacked the attributes to go fire his own employees and let someone else do it in a parking lot. Then he took 45k for something he didn't do (CEO of a company, rofl) and now is taking donations and is lost in codeland.
Consider me flabbergasted, you can't make this shit up from scratch.