Many people have expressed here that EVE takes up an inordinate chunk of your life, to the point where you ignore other things you should be doing. Perhaps OP is assuming we know that, and is making the point that some of the excess should be directed toward something more meaningful? That's my charitable reading of his post, but I could be wrong.
To be fair, you can replace EVE with HN in that sentence, and it still works for many people (myself included at various times, for both EVE and HN)
I like the charitable view, but I can feel for the sentiment in the parent comment as well. It's unlikely everyone is going to devote every minute of their life to charity. I can give plenty of money and time to charity, and still have time to play games sometimes.
Lots of people quite easily spend as much time watching tv as people like us play video games. I'd argue playing games is at the very least slightly less bad. We are engaging with other people (most of the time), working reflexes, strategy, hand eye coordination, etc. Everyone needs some relaxation and play time, and I suspect video games are a better use of time than a lot of competing alternatives.
Sounds a little like harsh criticism, but it's actually a really good question! Yes, it's not so different if you have meta talks about life or if you discuss how to kill the CEO of a virtual space corp.