I think that runescape has to be one of the biggest waste of time. Not sure about others but I know for those who started in Runescape Classic, and are still playing to this day may have wasted a lot of time that they could of spent doing something more productive. I use to be the kid that would get off the school bus and run to the house, log onto runescape and play till my mom came home ( 3 hours later ) and told me to get off and do homework. Those were the days when I was content to sit in front of the computer and play for hours on end trying to get as many 99 skills as I could. I am not saying I regret playing the game, I had a great time but I think it is one of the bigger time wasters in life. Sure you can point to other things being a waste, like playing too much COD4 on xobx live, or watching youtube too often as time wasters. But I think when we all step back from the game and really examine our lives, look at what we have accomplished in an online game we get that sense of pride that we really did something meaningful. But in the end runescape is not going to help you out in college, if anything it may cause your grades to slip, to neglect your close friends, and to have mood swings ( when you get vistage drop or die will full guthans ). Its not something you can put on your resume and say hey I was a clan leader in this online game runescape, my skill total is 2275 and am 137 combat can u hire me for a job? The first few years of playing may not seam like a waste but after 3 -4 5 years and doing the same thing over and over it becomes a waste