I’ll be charitable and grant that you’re likely talking about a very specific type of CEO who ends up at a very specific type of game studio; usually one that stopped caring about the quality of the games that it produces and instead envisions the studio as a financial engineering play.

Elsewhere, there are plenty of game studios that have product-focused CEOs who are gamers and care deeply about creating memorable experiences, with the playtime to prove it.

thats a very complicated way to say "i dont like young people"

I like young people a lot!

Which is why I think we should massively restrict the amount of digital poison corporations are allowed to pump into their veins.

I'm pretty sure the Gullemot brothers still play their own games, heard that Yves played some rainbow 6 siege or something, and while I hate Ubisoft games quality and only ever bought one, he seems way more professional than whoever the Blizzard CEO is.

Rayman Legends is amazing. Such a shame that their stores / launchers / DRM have been among the worst for years...

Yves covered for Maxime Béland's and Serge Hascoët's sexual abuses for decades.

Gabe Newell

Sales and marketing CEOs pretend they work 24x7, but they spend much of weekends on leisure activities such as golfing, travel, playing with their children, having expensive dinners with board members and politicians and so on. If you're committed it's really not hard to replace that leisure time with gaming.

They spend much of the working day on those leisure activities as well.

I've seen execs tell the rest of the company that a four day work week isn't reasonable while working four days themselves.

Did you see Elon Musk's Elden Ring build?