I think you have this precisely backwards. Soulless crunch work in the video game industry as a code monkey given no creative control over the game is more lik

I think you have this precisely backwards. Soulless crunch work in the video game industry as a code monkey given no creative control over the game is more likely to kill your interest in playing video games. If regular boring non-videogame office work killed people's interest in games, there would hardly be a market for videogames at all; who would buy them?