Reality Check

As a gamer myself, I know how addicting many games can be.  100+ hours can easily be sunk into any good RPG, and often a person won't just put it down once they beat it once.  Now lets magnify this by somewhere around 3 or 4 orders of magnitude for how much time Wade has sunk into the OASIS.  I bring this up because the ending has him saying he "had absolutely no desire to log back into the OASIS" (372).  I find this somewhat far-fetched.  Not only is this a game that he has devoted every waking moment to for the past 6 or so years, but also he grew up and then later went to school in the OASIS.  It seems to me that Wade himself knows the OASIS much better than he knows real life, and changing over so drastically so quickly to not wanting to go back into the OASIS seems unnatural.  A mediocre analogy, but the best I can think of is like a soldier coming back from war.  The peace and quiet of the homefront is unnatural to the soldier that has been at war for a long time, because he or she is so accustomed to the culture and climate of war.  Wade is more used to the culture and climate, so to speak, of the OASIS than the waking world.  On top of this, the reason he doesn't want to log back into the OASIS is because he finally has another real person he wants to live for - Samantha - otherwise known as Art3mis, a girl who, like Wade, basically lived in the OASIS.  As good as the message that Cline is putting forward, that humans should not try to escape the world, but rather make it the best world possible, is a good one, but for Wade to have no desire to go back to the OASIS seems unrealistic.