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Any REAL game Tester jobs?

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  • Valknyr
     
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    Feb 23, 2011 5:24 am GMT
    I mean a REAL game tester job. One thru the company of the game? Just wanting to see if there are any out there. I have been look and havent had any luck.
    I mean a REAL game tester job. One thru the company of the game? Just wanting to see if there are any out there. I have been look and havent had any luck.
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  • Animatronic64
     
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    Feb 23, 2011 5:35 am GMT

    Yeah, you can try Blizzard. Keep in mind, though, that you need excellent written and verbal skills for this kind of job. Game testing isn't always that easy, and usually you have to demonstrating your skills by writing an analysis of a game or something along those lines. Either way, you'll do a lot of writing. Also, if someone can do the job better than you, it's likely that they'll take the spot. Good luck with it.

    Yeah, you can try Blizzard. Keep in mind, though, that you need excellent written and verbal skills for this kind of job. Game testing isn't always that easy, and usually you have to demonstrating your skills by writing an analysis of a game or something along those lines. Either way, you'll do a lot of writing. Also, if someone can do the job better than you, it's likely that they'll take the spot. Good luck with it.

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  • worlock77
     
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    Feb 23, 2011 7:32 am GMT

    Are you really sure it's a job you want? From everything I've heard game testing will make you regret ever having liked video games in the first place.

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    Are you really sure it's a job you want? From everything I've heard game testing will make you regret ever having liked video games in the first place.

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  • ArsenalandHenry
     
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    Feb 23, 2011 7:57 am GMT
    On the one side, it sounds like the best job in the world. But just like any job, you can get bored of it. You won't be able to look at games the same way anymore whilst you wouldn't want to play games at home either as you are technically "bringing your work home with you".
    On the one side, it sounds like the best job in the world. But just like any job, you can get bored of it. You won't be able to look at games the same way anymore whilst you wouldn't want to play games at home either as you are technically "bringing your work home with you".
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  • starwarsjunky
     
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    Feb 23, 2011 8:27 am GMT
    its not a job you can get just by wanting it. you will often need to have some kind of a technical degree.

    its not a job you can get just by wanting it. you will often need to have some kind of a technical degree.
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  • starwarsjunky
     
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    Feb 23, 2011 8:29 am GMT
    but if you're serious and live in northern cali, telltale has a tester position listed.

    but if you're serious and live in northern cali, telltale has a tester position listed.
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  • SRTtoZ
     
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    Feb 23, 2011 12:05 pm GMT
    Most game testers are hired by temp companies. Its almost never a permanent position plus from what i hear its bar pay and a lot of work. Its not a bunch of people sitting around eating chips drinking soda. Its usually you in a cubicle alone for 10 hrs a day playing a game you have never heard of filled with bugs and writing complete analysis on them. Its not like youre gonna be playing a full finished copy of something.

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    Most game testers are hired by temp companies. Its almost never a permanent position plus from what i hear its bar pay and a lot of work. Its not a bunch of people sitting around eating chips drinking soda. Its usually you in a cubicle alone for 10 hrs a day playing a game you have never heard of filled with bugs and writing complete analysis on them. Its not like youre gonna be playing a full finished copy of something.
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  • JohnF111
     
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    Feb 23, 2011 12:14 pm GMT
    Yeah it's funny how many gamers think they can jump sit on a sofa and play games all day, you need massive reports to be handed in detailing as detailed as possible every little bug and niggle you find... Hence the laziness of some games being released with huge bugs that no tester should ever have missed... No bugs means no paperwork and to be honest the pay aint great and you play games you might not like such as "Barbies World of Pink" or "Mr Tiddles Day out" so it's now what you may have it hyped up to be where you play new unreleased CoD and then say "Textures need work" and then go head back on it.

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    Yeah it's funny how many gamers think they can jump sit on a sofa and play games all day, you need massive reports to be handed in detailing as detailed as possible every little bug and niggle you find... Hence the laziness of some games being released with huge bugs that no tester should ever have missed... No bugs means no paperwork and to be honest the pay aint great and you play games you might not like such as "Barbies World of Pink" or "Mr Tiddles Day out" so it's now what you may have it hyped up to be where you play new unreleased CoD and then say "Textures need work" and then go head back on it.
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  • Viddo
     
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    Feb 23, 2011 12:15 pm GMT

    I don't know much in this topic, but from whatI've researched its pretty bad pay (over in england its around max £15,000 a year) and normally work normal hours, but most often work overtime for long, unsocial hours just to meet deadlines.

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    I don't know much in this topic, but from whatI've researched its pretty bad pay (over in england its around max £15,000 a year) and normally work normal hours, but most often work overtime for long, unsocial hours just to meet deadlines.

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  • Crossel777
     
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    Feb 23, 2011 12:24 pm GMT

    Yup and don't take that crappy show called The Tester as a good example of games testing. Because it's not.


    Yup and don't take that crappy show called The Tester as a good example of games testing. Because it's not.

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  • SRTtoZ
     
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    Feb 23, 2011 12:38 pm GMT

    Na, everyone think its like Grandma's boy where they are all partying all day. Fact is all of the jobs are temporary (once the game is out, you get fired or laid off) plus the pay is around 10 bucks an hour MAX. And here in NYC thats not a lot of money.

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    Na, everyone think its like Grandma's boy where they are all partying all day. Fact is all of the jobs are temporary (once the game is out, you get fired or laid off) plus the pay is around 10 bucks an hour MAX. And here in NYC thats not a lot of money.

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  • cooldust
     
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    Feb 23, 2011 1:25 pm GMT
    I know someone who did testing on GTAIV, from what i heard its not a job anyone would want! He had to run into walls for 9 hours a day!

    I know someone who did testing on GTAIV, from what i heard its not a job anyone would want! He had to run into walls for 9 hours a day!
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  • Rattlesnake_8
     
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    Jun 2, 2011 5:55 am GMT
    Not a job id want to do.
    You test out part of a level in a game, make a detailed list of all the bugs you come across. Send it to the dev team, they send you back another version with updates to those bugs. You run through and test it again. Repeat over and over. You'll be playing the exact same thing over and over and over.

    Not a job id want to do. You test out part of a level in a game, make a detailed list of all the bugs you come across. Send it to the dev team, they send you back another version with updates to those bugs. You run through and test it again. Repeat over and over. You'll be playing the exact same thing over and over and over.
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