>>724036464
The people that make video games today do not play them and this is actually important.
There isn't a single video of from Bungie I can think of where half the video isn't b-roll of them playing their own game.
Others like early ID would allocate time for playing other video games as a form of research on what is fun. So that they could know how to make their games more fun.
Today people study marketing and how to exploit children into spending their parents money. This is what is most important when designing, developing, and deploying a video game. Not fun, not gameplay.
They don't know that it's funny when the warhog blow up into the sky lol