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    101 year ago

    I’ve been a game programmer for >10 years and I would be fucking miserable if I spent most of my free time with video games as well. Isn’t that what we call work/life balance? And from my experience, most game devs either stop being “gamers” at a certain point, or they burn out and quit the video game industry.

    That being said, almost everyone I know from gamedev is really excited about video games, and they have a ton of experience, even if they are not playing games in their free time anymore. It could be because I’ve only worked for indie projects and small publishers.

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      11 year ago

      Agree on all points, I was just making an observation. It sucks that all the people with money don’t care though.

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      11 year ago

      Yeah, that explains it I think. Making video games is hard work and it is normal quit or stop caring.