Get job as game tester

>get job as game tester
>play games while earning mad moneyz
Find a flaw

You have to play the same game over and over until you're absolutely sick of it and then beyond, and there's no guarantee that it will even be a good game to start with.

Being retarded seems to be a requirement.

>game is a boring sjw shitfest

there you go

>earn less than minimum wage
>have to live in san francisco
>no future
>most likely have to play shitty games
>most likely have to play buggy areas over and over again

I could keep going

I knew a person that was a gametester. They make you play the same small part over and over and meticulously document any bugs. They patch, you repeat. Over and over.
By the end he more ore less stopped playing vidya altogether

>mad money
lol

>get job to review games
>start to hate them

>be female
>make $1000 a day pretending to like video games on twitch

You realize that it's not like playing a game and documenting your opinions, right? Being a game tester means you have to play it like an autist and scrub through all the possible scenarios where coding could fuck up.

You'll hate playing games afterwards

Sounds like a good job if you have severe OCD

I did it for 6 months at a third party company (was a contract job, they had more clients during june-november). It wasn't as bad as people make it out to be. The nice part was meeting all sorts of people who share my interests.

this
find a flaw

>Work for Bethesda
>Oblivion
>"Steve, we want you to go to these coordinates and jump for 3 hours."

Welcome to game testing.

>exchaning your love for video games for shit tier payment

You're a fucking moron.
1/10 for making me reply

You have to be social / have a good personality to begin with so entire internet doesn't end up hating you.

autokeypress.exe
3 hours lunch

You are an ugly female

They need to check their privilege!!! I knew the wage gap was a myth.

>woman
>hate
thas racist!

Guess the only real flaw is you have to deal with all the backlash.
Pretty minor considering the payout though.

Woman is not a race user

>not selling your game at full price and letting the players pay for you to test

...

Playing becomes a job implying you don't do it for fun but because you have to.

You have to rush through the whole game to complete it as fast as you can so you can't really enjoy it.

You play games you like for sure but you also have to play shit tons of game you really really don't like and don't want to play.

Like your jobe implies playing game all day long, you don't feel like playing in your free time anymore, because you absolutly want to do something else, so you can't play your favorite license just for yourself to enjoy.

I know some gametester and follow some of them on the web you can see that they actually don't like videogames anymore...

run into this wall for 5 hours

now change your angle slightly, do it again for another 5 hours

do this paper work

Make sure this sound bite plays correctly, so replay this section of the game about a good 2000 times

>bethesda
>game testing

>Ah user, I see you found a glitch. Could you tell us the exact steps it takes for us to reproduce it? If not please spend the next 3 days jumping on this exact spot and find a way to reproduce it. Ktnx

>3 days paid vacations
find a flaw

Tbh if you weren't recording video and input to begin with you're an idiot anyway so you're probably fine

>3 day paid vacation
Does sitting at your desk for 72 hours watching for even the smallest detail change to happen count as a vacation?
>inb4 lol you don't have to go in you just have the autokey press
You'll have to be screencapturing the whole thing and then watch 72 hours of recorded footage of the same jump in the same place. No you can't tab out and watch something else since they don't pay you to do that and you better be taking notes of every little thing that happens that's slightly different.
New Game showed this well but in a much more light-hearted way. You really will need a full fucking notepad of what you pressed, did, etc.

Actually sounds pretty good provided they let you smoke weed in there

>earning mad moneyz
huuuuuuh

>make a game on unity
>get told unity is the worst
>make $230,000 in 1 month
>have to pay unity $1200 a year
>$1200 became pocket change after living in near poverty

keep testing games user.

I can spot two
>get job as game tester
>play games while earning mad moneyz

People don't get paid to test anymore. People Now pay to test

>play games while earning mad moneyz
Except you literally get paid absolute dick

Basically this.
If you know anything about dev or someone who works there, you know that people who make games actually never play them because they are so fucking tired of them.

>Doing drugs in an official company's building.
Are you retarded?

...

But where to find one?
Being buddies with a soyboy dev or doing some unpaid stem intership is not an option

Just wear something that shows some cleavage and have the cam pointed at it, while making silly comments about how much you suck at the game + saying "I love [Top Donator]!"

All you need is being attractive and not autistic.

As for the backlash, ignore them or call them misogynist(if male)/envious(if female)/mentally ill(if something else).

Was a game tester for 3 months.
>Only test mindless mobile freemium trash.
>Half of my colleagues are insufferable hipsters, the other half are autistic mouthbreathers.
>Laughable pay.
>Team leaders are a fat chick with an inflated ego who evidently thought she "had it made" and some buffoon who barely knew English.
>Tasks involved such trilling activities as reloading the app for hours just to see if all the hints appeared correctly.
I mean, I guess it probably depends on who you're working for, but yeah.

game testing will make you hate video games, like working at Gamestop

>get a job as a network administrator for a medium sized company
>play games while earning reasonable moneyz
could be worse

you dont play games as a game tester you hunt for glitches and bugs submit a list and the publisher says to ignore all but the most game breaking ones so after a while you start to feel useless

There are no game companies in my area

It's a small market which has already been fully tapped out
There are hundreds of hot girl streamers who never get any viewers on twitch.

That's your job

never mix pleasure and business

Solid one

being a game tester doesn't mean you get to merrily go on your way enjoying the game the way you want. You'll just be running into walls seeing if you can clip through them and looking for various other bugs, you'll get sick of it almost immediately

I tested LiS: Before the Storm for months and it was surprisingly enjoyable

Imagine playing the first minute of the first level of the first mario game over and over and over again for 8 hours a day.

>Wanna get a job as Game Tester
>All of them are obscure mobile games

Game tester is a shit job honestly, my friend works in Quality Control for Developer and it's more than just testing games. Yeah he gets to play games way before everyone but they are almost always broken and he has to take notes and supply ideas for fixes while making kind of shit money. He only does it to work his way up in the company. They are pretty much robbing him with how little they pay him compared to how much effort he puts into his job.

You don't choose the games.
You don't play for fun.

I've worked at a testing firm for three years now, basic peon level testing is drudgery, but once you become a specialist in certification or other specific field it becomes very tolerable.

No you don't. Just doll yourself up and do softcore slutty shit. Female twitch users barely even have enough personality to be social. That's why everyone like Brittany Venti, she actually has a personality. 99% of twitch sluts would have dead channels if they were males because outside of their bodies they are pretty boring.

I think being a concept artist for video game is much more tolerable especially if you're freelance, you can get good cash even though they will not use some of your concept and you can work at home.

testing work barely pays as much as a fast food gig

>Find a flaw
But that's your job

>develop game
>open a patreon, give donators "early access" to build versions
>have them test your game AND pay you at the same time
>release stable versions to the public for free, incentivize more people to donate for early access

This happened to me with Snow, I bought it on sale early in EA and it fucking released for free. I never buy EA games after that. Luckily I only paid like 1.50 for it.

Did you say "person" because they became a tranny afterwards? I'm just asking because that sounds a lot like speedrunning.

Sounds good on one hand, but if you saw what and experienced tester bug report looks like vs some randos bug report, you'd understand why to pay extra. That absolutely doesn't mean when I'm testing an early access title I don't just go on the forums, find what people are bitching about in their mongoloid way and re-enter it as my own work.

Underrated

So ... you play games. Check.

QA tester here. Testers don't really play games, they just follow test plans and file bug reports. Also, most of these games are a buggy mess until near the end of development. QA beats working at McDonald's sure, but I would never call my job fun.

You do cert?

Currently, I work on after release content on a popular franchise. Its mostly just checking values on a spreadsheet and in game.

Not so bad to have something steady, I'm cross trained so I haven't worked on a single project for more than a week in maybe a year.

Sounds annoying. Is this third party contract or do you work internally in a large studio?

game tester here.

You spend 90% of the time with your face buried in Oracle or a similar database. Give up the dream. You need a vast amount of programming knowledge and experience with multiple platforms and languages to even get a foot in the door.

And you don't play the game. You're given a specific portion of it to test. Again. And again. And again. For like 4 weeks straight. The same shit, every fucking day. Running the same sequences hundreds of times a day.

There is nothing "gamey" about it.

Third party, personally I don't mind changing projects often because what I do best really doesn't take more than a week or two to check, any more and I get stir crazy, otherwise I'm doing Microsoft certification and that's rarely more than a week at a time. Word on the wind is they're jockeying me into position to be on a project running until December, so I'm feeling a little apprehensive.

>Find a flaw
Funnily enough that's essentially all you're doing as a game tester.

Seems like a lame way to waste your life away. You're sure as hell not rising up the company ladder at a good pace either.

>play games while earning mad moneyz

everyone knows testers earn complete shit

you're most likely talking to a literal child, user

game testing is a dying field anyway. most places just contract it out. only a few big companies in CA have in house testing.

>find a flaw
>devs say they will fix in a day one patch
>it makes it worse

I hope by CA you mean Canada, because there's 6 I can think of off the top of my head in my city alone

i mean an actual proper QA career at a company. Not a $14 an hour temp job.

>tester
>play

The testing isn't as thorough since post-release patches are the norm. My team (which I supervise now) is only 18 people, on-site. When I first started here, we had about 100, some at 2 satellite offices.

Entry level first party pays salary here, normally.

>game tester
>mad money
If you are black it's probably the highest legal you'll ever get, that's sure.

There are youtube autists who dedicate their free time in messing around in levels, documenting glitches, and searching for bugs. They would be god-tier game testers.

some autismo was like this for Halo and actually got hired. but before his start date they found out he made all these autistic rants against the company online and got dropped.