[i] Unless you are literally unable to stop yourself from playing, and you find yourself neglecting REAL WORLD reponsibilities-----like eating, sleeping, and work/school----to play this game....then you are NOT addicted.[/i] So lets deal with that up front. Odds are you are NOT addicted...you're just burned out. If you are compulsively playing this game to the point you can't tear yourself away, and you life is coming unravled because of it.....you have a bigger problem than this environment can help you with. You need REAL professional help. Now, I've been playing this game daily since Day One, and I still look forward to playing it every day...and I largely stay positive about the experience. (To the point some people accuse me of being a Bungie employee or shill....I wish. I could always use the money....) How I do this is simple. [i] I play the game for INTERNAL reasons. [/i] IOW, I play the game because I ENJOY PLAYNG THE GAME. When the game gets stale, I stop playing. When a part of the game gets stale, I stop playing it and move on to playnig a different part. If I don't like part of the game (like the strike playlist) I don't force myself to play it. Lastly, I accept the game for what it is. I don't waste time or energy brooding over that hte game isn't...or what it "should have been'> The opposites of these----are the things I typically see------that lead other people to burn out and quit the game 1. They play for External reasons. To prove something about themselves (Tirials) or to get some particular piece of loot.. As someone wiser than me once noted, "There are two ways to being miserable in this world. One is to get NOTHING of what you want. The other is to get EVERYTHNG you want." ..and that's the rub. The people who get miserable are the externally-motivated players who either get all the game's loot....or they get stuck in a pattern where some item or item "wont drop" for them. So when the external carrots either dry up or won't cooperate....they have no reason left to play or enjoy playing. 2. People either limit themselves to one part of the game ('I hate Crucible!!") or force themselves to play parts of the game they don't like for external reasons. Usually because it is the most "efficient" part of the game at getting something external. But since they don't like it...and keep playing it over and over....it gets stale very fast...and they grow to resent the game for what they are doing to themselves. 3. They are so focused on what the "isn't".....or so obsessed about *perceived* injustices perpetrated on them by Activision and Bungie....that they can't simply enjoy playing the game. You can't enjoy the world's best sweet potato pie, if you're sitting there seething about why you couldn't have pumpkin pie the whole time you're eating it. Advice: Its a game...and it supposed to be played for FUN....that's all. If it stops being fun...STOP PLAYING. Put it down. Go do something else...and come back and play again when it starts to be fun again, and you look forward to playing. If that feeling never comes back, walk away, and leave the game behind. Not every thing is for everybody....and this may not be the game for you.