I remember reading an article to that said basically what Kantor states. Video games, like any form of entertainment, does not become a problem until it causes problems in reality. If you buy a new game and play it almost constantly for a couple of days and the dishes start piling up and the house gets a little dirty, you don't have a problem. If dirty dishes and dirty house starts being a health problem, you may have an addiction issue.
Saying that video games are addicting is a misleading statement. Anything can be addicting and is solely based on the user. What video games offer, along with every other form of entertainment, is escapism. Whenever we get that escape from reality, we resist any attempt to bring us back to reality such as an overgrown lawn that needs to be mowed.
I remember in Baldur's Gate II how one game tip while loading was, "Remember, even though your characters don't have to eat, you do. We don't want to loose any dedicated gamers".
