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Hey guys hope all are well, been unable to play much lately or do much else for that matter lol too busy moping around trying to find an alternative career choice, but hope to be able to play more in a bit. Anyways I been looking at something in the games industry and saw some advertisments for ea games testers positions open for a few months, does anyone know exactly what this kind of thing this entails? I mean I realise that somewhere along the line i might be expected to play a game lol, but would it be closer to kicking back trying out a new game and giving feedback or a more stop and start kind of affair?
Both really.
It depends on what game youare testing…. If it is a normal single player game you can play it when you like. But if it is an online game you can still play it when you like but also you will have times when they organise stress tests and other tests so you all need to be online at xxxx time on xxx day.
All you do then is fraps/screenie bugs and post details of said bug.
I honestly don’t think its possible to have an easyer job 🙂
Except for being a twat maybe. But with me its an art rather than a job 😛
I think judge was a games tester… not sure it was much fun tbh, and he said the pay was shit… but I suppose a job is a job…
Not sure it goes down well with the ladies though… not unless you are testing the Sims… and then they might think you are gay!
its not as enthralling as it sounds……a lot of the time you wont be playing as such…..more driving an F1 car into the stadium walls trying to see if you can get on the roof.
you are there to test for the bugs…..to find them….not to sit around on your arse getting paid to play and enjoy games you wanna play.
and then you might get assigned to some weirdy beardy hob goblin realtime nonsense which is a pile of shite…..was always destined to be a pile of shite…..was never gonne be anything other than a crock of shite.
“heres harry potter on the gba…..go look for bugs for 6 months” 😯
i could be wrong but crazy hippo was still doin it last time i knew of ??
he would be the man to speak to…..as judgeh has sadly gone awol
Much agreed on the sims part mate, lol, games testing would rock – but i would also imagine that the pay wouldnt be too fantastic!
theres offers for a 3 month contract at 7 quid an hour which would do me very nicely 😀 and give me some time to maybe get to see any other goings on inside the industry. If it ends up being the sims i would be gutted
Fucking go for it mate!
Experience is experience.
Imagine getting paid to play BF4
Now that would rock!
@Divie wrote:
theres offers for a 3 month contract at 7 quid an hour which would do me very nicely 😀 and give me some time to maybe get to see any other goings on inside the industry. If it ends up being the sims i would be gutted
If it’s the Sims ya better burn me a copy or else!!!!
@TurksMeister wrote:
Fucking go for it mate!
Experience is experience.
Imagine getting paid to play BF4
Now that would rock!
No Turks, it would rock if he was testing Bf 1943 😀
I’m not going to be paying for any more EA crap until they release BF1943. Not to say I won’t be playing anything by them 😈
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 homenow 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.
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