happiness is elusive ..

[Emu]

I gave up online gaming and have found my life to have improved substantially. I used to play Warcraft 3 and Neverwinter Nights obsessively for a few years, and those years even now seem like kind of a blur to me. Now I'm working, I've moved in with my girlfriend and things are good.

You can tell something is a bad influence in your life when it takes up the majority of your time, even if you're not around it, like constantly worrying about friends who are in trouble but have no desire to fix it. Of course, this could be said about a lot of positive things, like jobs or girl/boyfriends or whatever, but I think it can be said that the benefits outweigh the negatives in those aspects.
So yeah, I think you did the right thing. :o