I fell into a job where I play games once a week, Im not sure how tight their NDA is yet so Im not going to give out many details right now.
Just keep your fingers crossed being a hard core gamer finally paid off for me!
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I fell into a job where I play games once a week, Im not sure how tight their NDA is yet so Im not going to give out many details right now.
Just keep your fingers crossed being a hard core gamer finally paid off for me!
what, 5 bucks a night :-P?
If you are beta testing and looking for bugs, have a fun time. I did that for about a week and quit. I play games 6 hours in one sitting once a week, therefore I did not enjoy doing it 9 to 5, Monday through Friday.
How much do they usually pay?Quote:
Originally posted by TheSpegmaster
If you are beta testing and looking for bugs, have a fun time. I did that for about a week and quit. I play games 6 hours in one sitting once a week, therefore I did not enjoy doing it 9 to 5, Monday through Friday.
I was paid $9 an hour at the time, but I was just a high school student at the time.
EDIT: I would recommend learning something about hardware, Windows, MS office, and networking. After you are well versed in these subjects, get a suit and then finding a job that would look good on a resume. Right now, I am working for the department of agriculture. I manage the nation-wide network along with a few other people who are twenty years older than I.
Its console based so not much hardware to familerize myself with.
Cool, but I've heard professional game beta testing is horrible... I'd much rather be a game critic!
if you don't mind me asking...but...how did you get into it? I've just recently been getting really into the development side of games and more specifically...q/a testing and things like that...I just think it would be something that I would enjoy doing...maybe spending 2 years or so as a tester and then move up to like q/a manager or whatever...I dunno really I was just thinking that up...
That is probably going to be heaven and hell for you. Heaven at the times you get a great title your way to test out. Hell if you get the buggiest piece of crap found on god's (polluted) green earth.Quote:
Originally posted by Recon
I fell into a job where I play games once a week, Im not sure how tight their NDA is yet so Im not going to give out many details right now.
Just keep your fingers crossed being a hard core gamer finally paid off for me!
Like Enter the Matrix for pc!:DQuote:
Originally posted by commanderkeen
Hell if you get the buggiest piece of crap found on god's (polluted) green earth.
Yeah I saw a thing they did on G4 once where it had some game related jobs and game tester was on there. Man I never would want to do that. They just sat there playing looking for bugs then when they found one they wrote it down and had to keep trying to recreate the bug over and over and over and over.....you get the idea. Anyway good luck hope you like it but I think something like that would make it hard to enjoy games in your spare time.
That sounds like it's along the lines of nude beach. The idea itself sounds cool but then you see a bunch of old, ugly people there, right?Quote:
If you are beta testing and looking for bugs, have a fun time. I did that for about a week and quit. I play games 6 hours in one sitting once a week, therefore I did not enjoy doing it 9 to 5, Monday through Friday.
in my area it isn't all that bad. you get to try all the new consoles, games. all the computers are top-of-the-line, with 21" monitors. you just have to be wary of all the little things like bugs, annoyances, etc and write them up. pay was good too, i remember it was above minimum. (this was a like 4 years ago though)Quote:
Originally posted by Kamakazie
Cool, but I've heard professional game beta testing is horrible... I'd much rather be a game critic!
Ive Worked Q/A testing for a couple of companies before, None involving games though.
I remember one bug I found on a piece of hardware, an ICD in fact running a ton of different connections. If you unplugged the ethernet cord for 5 min then plugged it back in the box would crash. I spent 3 days recreating the error testing different time stamps and variables. So I know the Hell of Q/A testing and it doesnt scare me anymore heh.
is it like something u can apply for or do they just choose u?
Im not making fun of you or anything but that I sounds weird at the end there, shouldnt it be me? Im just wondering :)Quote:
Originally posted by TheSpegmaster
I manage the nation-wide network along with a few other people who are twenty years older than I.
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Originally posted by jamezzz122
is it like something u can apply for or do they just choose u?
Usually its not a field you can really train for (well maybe..) nor study or take a class to achieve this job opprotunity. I think its all based of large corporations or publishers who desire people to test there product and give a notice out about someone who wants to try testing it. I have seen them since my internet career over 5 years ago and they just seem to double with every year. Its acutally pretty easy to get into if your patient and not expecting, and the pay aint too bad either depending on your knowledge, years of testing, area skill/knowledge your testing in, ect. Just all depends. I would be willing to test a product for 6-10 hours a day for $10 an hour, I am a student so thats alot of money to me :). Cheap labor for corporations.
On a side note, I have a job interview at this Cyber Cafe right by my school/house tomorrow. It would be the perfect job for me (tech position), and there opening on the 30th! Its more of a computer game place then a regular coffie house. They have a bunch of top of the line computers, all equiped with the popular games, so I should be getting paid for playing game pretty much. I think i have a good chance of getting the job so im excited.
Woot if i get the job im sooo buying the rig in my sig (rhyme :D ) so i can play HL2 CS2 and whatever other 2 there will be. :D