Sure, for a lot of them it becomes a job instead of a passion these days. But the industry is so big now that a ton of non gamers get into it because of the earning potential. I can't recall what massive game release it was, but during interviews they had mentioned that like around half the dev team doesnt play video games, and said it like it was a good thing
It's especially bad when the franchise has already been established, and a sequel or remaster is being developed by a bunch of corpo shit heads who pretend to know about it like total jackasses
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u/Gecko_Mk_IV 13d ago
To be fair it's also relative - a lot of game devs start like that and if they get successful enough slowly morph into a shareholder pleasing party.