I'm so glad you've changed your ways, GummyBear. Maybe... Maybe everything he/she has been saying is one large movie title?
People take this game seriously for many different reasons. Some are probably bored and they finally found a real challenge to keep them from being bored. Some are really competitive and this game is like a competition because they're trying to be a VIP. Others are mostly likely here to meet friends and they're trying to get stronger to protect their friends and themselves. Think of it as real life, in real life you're bored and trying to find something to do and once you finally do, of course you're going to take it seriously. People are competitive in real life and when you're competitive, you're very serious about it. You're very serious when you're protecting your friends in real life unless you're someone who's a real douche bag. We could use you as an example, you're serious about capitalizing all of your words, well it's like that except they're serious about this game. You meet people on here that might be the type of people that you only meet once in a lifetime. Or they take it seriously because someone they love is on here. Wouldn't you take things seriously if the person you love is being bothered or bullied? Take the things that are serious to you and try to compare it to the game. It's quite similar even though it's two different subject, it may not be all similar but it is similar in some type of way. People always have something to be serious about and this game happens to be one of those things to the majority of the people on here.