[sl3dge78]

> Also, the idea that employees of a game company don't play the game they work on for fun is pretty understandable.

This is true, but I think for a game as complex as Eve, developpers need to know the game they work on. Eve is constantly changing and evolving because of its nature.

For example Riot games required (I don't know if they still do) employees to have and maintain a certain rank in competitive queues.

The community has been complaining about a big disconnect between devs and players and this could explain it.

[Fnoord]

At Blizzard, employees get free stuff like free sub for WoW. If its free you value it less (I had Apple TV+ for free for a year and the only thing I watched was Snoopy with my kid). They are encouraged to play other games to get inspiration from, amd they do (but AFAIK not during work hours, though perhaps during lunch break or on friday afternoon?)