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How are you spending your commute? Are you driving? Or taking a train? If you aren't driving, perhaps you can use that 15 hours a week to read, learn a new skill. Then when you are burned out from work and play video games you won't beat yourself up about it. Also, count the video games as stress relief. We all need that.
If you are having trouble with recognizing delayed gratification, place play into the bin of work. Start numbering and comparing everything you do (work and play). You will start comparing playing video games to working out, and see that over your entire lifetime, the latter makes you happier. Another timeless advice is sleep well, exercise, and read. But you probably know that.
Apparently couldn't edit? Wanted to add some personal details. I was addicted to Dota 2, SSBM, and Hearthstone for a while; I have around 1.5 k hours logged on Dota 2, and that's not counting reddit time. Probably much longer on the latter two games. Untracked time. But now even with gorgeous gaming setup (I just gamed on a mac before), I don't game for too long. I play Witcher 3 for around 2 hours and then stop. Why…
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Not sure that its so much a symptom of a deeper problem as much as the fact that E-sports in general are a new industry and growing considerably. The amount of people involved in the counter-strike scene is at least 3-4 magnitudes larger than it was 7-8 years ago.
CSGO has a lot of players but compared to other popular games with their own economies - with exception to perhaps EVE Online - they don't have as many problems with shady item selling/trading markets as CSGO has. Look at DOTA2 for example.