I can somewhat sympathize. When I first discovered this game I binge-played so hard I actually did nerve damage to my elbow that now requires surgery to correct (I discovered I had a genetic condition where the nerve doesn’t sit in the right spot so it’s not entirely my or the game’s fault)
Nowadays I play for a few hours and then sometimes take a week off completely
What helps keep me from becoming addicted:
1. Reminding myself that the end-game/raid scene in this game is dog shit. I have a full time job and thus will never be able to do anything other than ultra casual end game stuff which means I will likely never acquire enough DKP to buy even the worst pieces of raid gear. The guild I got in is decently sized but on the lower end of the raid competitiveness it seems. It sounds like the OP also has RL responsibilities so it would be helpful for him to remind himself that he will never be able to be competitive as a raider in this game
2. High end quested gear looks miserable to obtain. I looked up things like the coldain 10 ring and it highly discouraged me. I dislike super long involve quests in any game, I like hectic hack in slash dungeon crawling, not running from side of the world to the next doing boring fetch quest shit and talking to NPC’s about lore I don’t really care about. And realizing that the quest requires crafting is more discouraging. I also hate crafting in any game, even single person games like Skyrim I always tried to avoid crafting and just exclusively do combat. Crafting feels like an unpaid more boring than my RL job within a video game
So because there is nothing to look forward to for the end-game, at least for me, that helps keep my investment very low
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