Although I've never played WoW, I've played other MMORPGs and have wasted quite a bit of my life. Granted I'd come in and go afk or check messages a lot but this is what it tells me:
You have played for a total of 344 days, 6 hours and 2 minutes.
It's a text based MMO and most popular of it's kind. Anyway, I occasionally come back to talk to old friends I met on there, but I rarely play nowadays. What I did what distract myself with other things to do. That's what I'd recommend most. Buy your step-dad something that may be equally as time consuming, but for the most part healthier and easier to stop.. or maybe buy him tickets to something, what ever he may enjoy--a concert, sports game, play, etc. The main goal is to get him to go out and have him doing something he enjoys enough that he won't be thinking about the next raid or level.
Swapping addictions may help too. It's not the best way to handle it, but it'll loosen the grip and maybe in the grey area between both addictions, he can snap out of it. I admit i've done that before with that MMO and another game.
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