I really enjoy coding. I have a practically infinite list of software projects that I could be working on at any given moment. But, I spend 8 hours a day working as a software engineer. I wish that when I got home each day I could just switch over to working on personal projects. Instead, I find that I'm almost always too mentally tired, so I play video games or browse the most mindless parts of reddit instead.
So for me at least, I play video games and accept that it's an important part of keeping myself healthy and not burning out at work, but I also wish I didn't' need to do it. It's sort of like sleep. I make sure I get at least 8 hours of sleep every night, but only because I need sleep to be healthy. If I could somehow replace sleep with more work (paid or on personal projects) without any adverse effects, I would do it, but of course that's impossible too.
What are your long term goals that suffer from you playing games?