Thursday, 4 October 2012

Testing Games for a Living

Yes, its true who wouldn't like to game for a living. Maybe the idea is preposterous but there might be something to it after all. The other day after smashing an enemy encampment of evil necrons in Dawn of War: Soulstorm I was surfing the net for a deeper understanding of the balance of each race. Its just then that I stumbled onto a website that was hawking a job as a video game tester like you know you might be selling vegetables in a fish market. I mean really selling video game testing as a job? Hhmmm... too good to be true? Yeah, well... that's what I thought too.

You see at comic-con or releases of these major games like diablo 3 (epic game by the way!) or like far cry 3 you see images like this being posted up on the websites




Unfortunately there are people like these who are indeed called to these releases to test out these games in front of the spectators (partly to show them that the game is not insanely hard and when someone makes something look easy then people are immediately drawn in). These video game testers are also given these games to test before hand pre-release to help the makers iron out bugs and get an early review before the game is unleashed onto the world. The links that I ran into were:


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They say that one can earn about $9000 a month just by indulging yourself in this awesome habit. Guess I kinda liked the miniature guy standing in the right bottom of the screen telling how this is all possible in one of the sites. Kind of sounded legitimate. Plus he does warn you about how a lot of the other websites that sell the same idea can be fake. They did have an aweful lot of companies that they said wanted to employ more gamers in their industry in the latest news in order to iron out bugs and glitches in their games. Gosh, I do hate it when I get stuck in some corner of a map and I have to restart from the last savepoint. Guess that would conclude what I have to say over here. Dunno guess you could check out the link if you wanted. Who knows if you do indeed get a job then you could post a comment to confirm it.