Ulfnaor
Elder
I personally don't care one way or another if it's little jimmy the philippinian kid who's a GM or if it's me or Krowley or whoever else.You are incredibly stupid.
90%+ of GMs for every production game don't play the game they work on. Those days are long gone, not coincidentally, due to the very predictable corruption that happened. As far back as UO and GM Darwin.
I just want GMs ingame.
With that caveat, I'm replying to you because you're wrong. I work in the industry. I've been a GM on three major titles and two smaller ones. I worked with three different companies. In every case, they encouraged us to play the game on our own terms as well, so we would experience it through the lens of a player, not just a GM. So we would know what to look for.
I can tell you, right now, that every single BDO GM also plays their game. Every single AA staff member also plays their game, from Korea to Japan, from China to Russia all the way to Trion's HQ. It's the same for WoW and ESO.
GMs play their games. They just don't lead guilds. Normally, this wouldn't even have been an issue, as Krowley and myself should have been issued Staff accounts with different names. I, for one, have absolutely no objection in retiring my main character (that's already in a shit tier guild) if it comes down to it and players feel uneasy otherwise.