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The "passionate" game developers work those long hours either thanks to studio policies or because they're indies living on a prayer don't actually get to play a lot of video games either, I've learned. When you write about games and someone isn't giving you a very interesting interview -- and people who work 15 hours a day are often not, you can imagine, very interesting interviewees -- a good question to ask them is "what games are you inspired by" or "what have you been playing lately."

Try it. Watch the stricken look, watch them struggle to remember the last time they liked playing a video game.

To some extent, when something becomes your job your relationship with it is going to change. I used to really resent the common question, "but do you play them", that I get asked by everyone from strangers in bars to border control officers when I say that I write about video games.

Sarcastic reply: "Nah I don't, just like all those film critics that don't ever watch movies." Sincere reply: An over-eager "oh yes, absolutely," which intends to convey through the enthusiasm of my shining gaze that being neck-deep in video games is totally fun and useful for normal adult women like me and they should nod seriously and appreciatively.

I mean, I still don't like the question, but I've come to dislike the prompt to passionately deliver a litany of "what I'm playing lately" a little bit more. The "lately" is the cloying part. As if for participation in this field it's not just enough to enjoy games, to think critically about them, to play them sometimes. To spend all your time making them, as some do. It's that you also must devote yourself to clawing ever uphill, passionately, as a consumer. Like if you were all at a buffet, and you came back to the table with only what you liked on your plate and not everything, you are merely a casual eater.
--http://gamasutra.com/view/news/217801/Guilt_conflict_and_loathing_On_being_a_passionate_gamer.php

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