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Beta-testing games is grueling, often tedious work. Seriously. It is NOT "playing games all day."
It is "trying to break games all day."
Often, your boss will give you mandates like "we need you to bump up against every tree in the game world to make sure we've eliminated that clipping issue."
$8/hr. is actually the low end of the pay scale for a professional tester, not least because it's rather difficult work and turnover is high.
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but its still 50 awesome cents more then my last job!!!! ^^!!!
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Professional video game testing is one of two jobs that teenage boys all wanted to have that ultimately ends up sucking the life out of their favorite things.
The other being gynecologist.
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What company is it for? Hopefully it will be for cool games.
Good luck with it. I've heard that it is a pretty unpleasant job, but that it is also a great way to get into the video game industry.
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quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: Often, your boss will give you mandates like "we need you to bump up against every tree in the game world to make sure we've eliminated that clipping issue."
$8/hr. is actually the low end of the pay scale for a professional tester, not least because it's rather difficult work and turnover is high.
Hmm, what would you say an average starting salary would be? For enough money, I could very easily bump into every tree in the game world.
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I've never, ever known a guy who wanted to be a gynecologist as a boy.
Playboy photographer maybe...
I'd need more than 8 dollars an hour to do that. Especially if it was Canadian money.
I thought from the thread title and the poster that he'd been made Canadian ambassador to China or something.
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Well, I won't rain on your parade, the job I want isn't much better.
Congratulations, you're gonna have a great time there for a while, and you'll meet a lot of people who are at least as into games as you. My bet is that you'll be very happy. Posts: 1681 | Registered: Jun 2004
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Congratulations on the new job, Blayne. Sounds better that the deli, I'd say. Let us know how it goes.
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So this means your job won't interfere with Crusader Kings anymore, am I right? Cool! See you Friday; I've decided it's time to restore Saxon dominance of England.
Incidentally, my friend the Pope is offering a very good deal on 'not getting excommunicated'. You should make him an offer; he's surprisingly reasonable at times when a repentant sinner shows his repentance. You are repentant, aren't you?
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WHO WHAT! Ok make sure ot contact me on ICQ before hand so I dont forget considering Im ot used ot this as of yet.
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quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: I thought from the thread title and the poster that he'd been made Canadian ambassador to China or something.
When I saw the thread title and originator, I immediately thought that Blayne had figured a way to get paid to play games.
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quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: I've never, ever known a guy who wanted to be a gynecologist as a boy.
Seriously? I think every guy I knew in middle/high school wanted to at some point.
Except me, but only because my mom worked for an optometrist. She told me about a gynecologist who came in because he had gotten gonnorhea IN AN EYE. And that reminded me that while I'm sure it's thrilling to be invited to look at naughty bits for about 20 seconds, the realization then hits you that you get to look at the bits of unattractive people, and diseased bits, and even the bits of the beautiful likely get boring through sheer repetition after the first, oh, I dunno, day.
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Oh man, there was a Friends episode about that.
Where Rachel meets a male gynecologist, and he's like, "What do you do? She says, "I'm a waitress..." Doctor: "Well, do you ever get to the end of the day, and you're just like, if I see ONE MORE cup of coffee...."
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