crazy hippo

many happy returns fella, may all your wishes come true.

@Lammie wrote:

@crazy hippo wrote:

its an EA mmo so it will be offline in 18 months. same with warhammer online.

i just hope and pray that the games get enough subscribers to make EA continue supporting them, as their track record with mmos isnt exactly the best. earth and beyond and motor city online both got closed due to insufficient subscribers.

Codemasters are the publisher and Turbine are the developers mate nothing to with EA this one 😉

ah yeah my bad, EA has warhammer online

its an EA mmo so it will be offline in 18 months. same with warhammer online.

i just hope and pray that the games get enough subscribers to make EA continue supporting them, as their track record with mmos isnt exactly the best. earth and beyond and motor city online both got closed due to insufficient subscribers.

ah the life of a tester……..

its repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.

testing is not for everyone, most people who play games wont enjoy it, of the few that do enjoy it most are pretty useless.

if you enjoy breaking others peoples work, being a critical little sod and generaly pulling 3 years work apart then testing is fun. always make me chuckle when the devs say “wtf were you doing?” it means i was doing my job.

i dont enjoy it as much as i used to but then i have been polluted by the business side of the industry but hey.

usual days testing will be something along these lines.

8:50 get in to the office make a coffee or if you over slept then its now more like 9:30 🙂
9:30 the lead will have told you what tests you are running. the types of test vary depending on what stage the game is in of its QA lifecycle. can be just a checklist of making sure that the a particular vehicle or series of vehicles is correct, graphics/animation/audio (over various terrain)/physics (suspension, wheels rotate/steering/damage etc. right up to being told to just go break the game (although this is normally only given to the good experienced testers)
11:00 have a break for 10 mins or so
11:15 back to work usually doing exactly the same as you were doing earlier but on a different section of the game.
1:00 till 2:00 lunch a.k.a play games for an hour
2:00 carry on with whatever you were doing before unless otherwise directed.
4:00 have a break.
4:15 same as the rest of the day
6:00 go home

now this sounds dull and tbh it is. BUT and for me its the reason why i do it, i get to go to work in a relaxed atmosphere, take regular breaks and talk all day to a bunch of people with similar intersts. you get to have a laugh while doing the job.

no suits, no ties, no uniforms. just jeans and a t-shirt talking to cool people all day.

oh and testing the battlefield series (up till 2142) were the best titles i worked on and great fun. especially working in sweden for 4 months on BF2.

yeah im shite in a chopper

@=XDC=OldPhart wrote:

A dump to be proud of. You could still smell it in receiption when I popped out for a post bowel-movement smoke

😈

with a smug look on your face as you looked at the poor receptionist :p

im well chuffed for ya Mugs.