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The paper aims on the issue of negative consequences of playing MMORPG and their relation to gaming addiction. The sample was composed of 786 respondents (685 males and 101 females) with a mean age of 21 years. The newly created questionnaire presence of negative consequences (using the items from PRIME-MD questionnaire) and a shortened version of the gaming addiction questionnaire (Lemmens, Valkenburg, Peter, 2009) were used. The results showed the presence of a number of adverse consequences. In the area of health problems we observed mainly neglect of sleep (48%), back pain (21.5%) and neglect of food (17.8%). As the most problematic areas seem the social and work life, where a quarter of respondents reported neglect of family and friends (24.9%), complaints of neighborhood about excessive gaming (24.7%) devoting of all free time to playing (22.5%), preference for playing in front of other work/school activities (29.5%). Less than a fifth of the respondents also reported feelings of anger towards those who are disturbing them while playing (16.9%) and worsening of work/study performance (15.3%). Correlation analysis showed a strong relationship between all negative consequences and gaming addiction (r = ,444 - ,577), as well as moderately strong relationship between negative consequences and the number of hours played per week (r = ,293 - ,388). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]