You may have gone overboard, but good message.
This is a message that should be heard by many, but overall i think you took it a bit too far by burning your Burning Crusade. I realize it's all part of making your stand against the powerful addiction, but now you're TRUELY wasting your money. If your copy were to be kept reserved, your money would be put in the form of entertainment. And while burning it is entertaining, now you're just left with ashes that are near useless to the common consumer.
I say that I respectfully disagree with many of your views, mainly because I reflect them on my own life. In 9th-10th grade high school, I was gaining weight like crazy and really downing any forms of social life. I was down that same road as you were, just a much, much shorter one. I still blow hundreds, and now thousands of dollars, thousands which could have given me a full scholarship to the college of my choice. However, I spend this money with no regret of my decisions. They provide me LOADS of entertainment. People tell me I have no life, but really what is this life that they speak of? I'm constantly entertained and occupied with things to do. On top of that, these people telling me about my lackluster social life have lower grades than I, a high honor senior in the National Honors Society. Everyday I also try to improve my healthy lifestyle with vigorous exercises and weightlifting. I can't say that I have a girlfriend or anything, and I've only gone to one dance, but that's because I HATE BLOODY DANCES, not that I need to play video games. The people that go to these dances, hang out with loads of friends, find love, etc, always bring up the fact that they are incredibly bored at nearly any given moment. You say that you could travel to New York to LA 3 times in the time it takes to level up your character, but what do you achieve at the end of your journey? Just memories. I have tons of memories of video games come and past. None of it feels like a waste of time. After I beat Bioshock, for example, I was able to live an emotional experience unlike anything I would have seen in real life. Video games are another form of story telling, wether you choose to play the video games of harry potter, or watch the movies, or read the books, it's all a waste of time with no physical, but emotional and mental value.
I could ramble on with counterarguments towards this, and to be honest, I was kinda bored after playing some video games for me to click on this video...But I just wanted to show you that a massive portion of my life is video games, but I'm able to balance more of my own life to the point where I feel that I am happy with my life. In my final words, I just wanted to show you, and anyone who reads this that you can achieve balance with an addiction. Nothing is good to over-endulge in, but if you find something you love, find a way to balance it to a point in which you are happy with the aspects of your life.