[maps7]

Yeah. I recently bought a game on steam where you create and manage a startup. You have to do stuff like research landing page, hire devs, ux people etc. About 10 mins in I was just thinking that my time would be better spent actually doing this stuff rather than doing it in a game.

[MPSimmons]

Sometimes, it's therapeutic to do something in a sandbox where there really isn't any adverse ramification to screwing up.

[roguas]

This. I would even suggest it might be good training to coop with the manager if it was a possibility. I bet manager would learn quickly whats a technical debt, why it shouldn't be ignored and that sometimes high level goals cannot be pursued directly. Also devs would learn quickly that sometimes we have to stop the crazy conveyors doing binary operations on the payload and just keep it simple.