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[Mars Nova]

I've realized that I need to start thinking about what I want to do with my life.  Due to my love of games, a career in game development sounds promising.  But I have this fear that a game-related career would somehow ruin my love of gaming.  It seems irrational to me, but I can't shake it.

I'm hoping that one of the devs or someone else with a gaming-related job can give me some advice here.  Are my fears irrational?  Or are they justified?  Any help you can give me would be much appreciated.

[Stanley Woo]

Depends on the personality, I suppose. We have lots of developers whose main hobby is videogaming. We have others who have a wide variety of interests which aren't gaming related at all.



Working in the industry can expose you to the worst parts of game development, which may make you want to never touch another game again. On the other hand, it might just increase your game-playing because now you want to see how other studios do things. Personally, all that working at BioWare has done for my game-playing is it's made me way more picky about the kinds of games I play, way more critical about the games I do play, and made me enjoy console gaming quite a bit.



Now, if only I wasn't involved in so many non-gaming activities, I might be able to catch up on my backlog of games I need to finish...

[John Epler]

I don't think that working in video games will necessarily make you less interested in gaming as a leisure activity. However, I will be honest - I find myself spending my free time on a wider variety of activities than I did prior to working at BioWare. I don't think that's a bad thing, of course - I still try and keep up on the latest releases.



Having said that, I know a lot of people who work here who play a ton of games. I know some people who play very few. It comes down to you yourself, and that's something that no one can really predict but you.