[khalladay]

> I wonder if a lot of gamedevs just get tired of playing their own game and thus don't care about it anymore as a result?

FWIW, if you work on large enough projects, you probably aren't playing the game that much at all unless you're a gameplay programmer (and even then, you might only play the small fraction of the game that your feature touches). I do graphics/engine programming for games and the closest I get to playing the game is "load into level, teleport to position X, use a cheat code to give me item Y, use Y, see rendering bug"

I've joked on some projects that I'm excited for the game to ship so I can learn how to play.