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Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Get Paid to Play
Szark
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EA Mythic has announced that they are looking for paid part time quality assurance people to help test Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning prebeta content.
Part Time QA Opportunities playing preBeta content
Here's the run down:
The position is a 6 month contract at $10 an hour - 4 hours a day, Monday - Thursday.
*Hours will most likely be in the evening, but have yet to be determined
Candidates must be local to our Fairfax, VA Studio, and available to start the 1st or 2nd week of September.
No experience required, you just have to love playing games!
Read more here.
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Good to know that they are throwing money around for something most people will do for free, yet at the same time we have to hear the lamentations of die-hard Warhammer fans trying to tell us they can't afford to have official forums. Good business sense!
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I know. I've applied for a lot of them thinking they were permanent positions. It's much different than "Beta Testing." You're testing "pre-beta" stuff. (Most likely the new elf pairing content) And you have tasks and responsibilities.
You have no clue. Nice stab at official forums though. Nice one.....
Who said they "couldn't afford" official forums. Whoever did is an idiot. We're talking about EA here. They have plenty of money for Official Forums. It's just not how Mythic prefers to handle things. Let them do it their way.
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Besides, they're hiring a few people at 10/hr...you have any clue what the staff that maintain, code, develop, and moderate professional forums make? More than $10/hr 16 hours a week, I'll tell you that.
Besides, they're hiring a few people at 10/hr...you have any clue what the staff that maintain, code, develop, and moderate professional forums make? More than $10/hr 16 hours a week, I'll tell you that.
Exactly. It's a job that people get when they really want to get their foot in the door of game development. Not something you get because it's like handing out free money.It's a "job" and testing is a very tedious job. And as a QA Tester on a 6 month contract making 10 bucks an hour, you're going to be spending most of your time doing the same thing thousands of times for hours each day, just to make sure nothing goes wrong.
You're going to have the testing that no one else wants. But if you really wanted into the game industry and you really loved playing games and testing them, you'd love the job. Even if it was tedious.
And I'm sure they have some "after hours" play time that you can partake in.
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I'd only do it if it was full time :P That's not enough money to live on.
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This is pretty cool. You can take all the money you made from beta testing and throw it towards the monthly fee :P
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It is nothing more then internal patch testers, those are the small group that test each patch out for major bugs and do the testing of bug fixes to see if they fixed the problem before they patch the public test servers.
You guys are really overdramatising the role of a QA guy. What they do is no different than any beta tester in early phases of BETA, usually BETA 1 and 2. You have predefined things to test , you only test those things. Nothing big, I am no great genius QA paid tester but I have done this in a ton of different BETAs along with others and noone was getting paid. Only difference is they are getting paid hence have more motivation :P
Paying for QA testers is a common practice. It's just that they don't post the positions on sites. Usually, they know a few people that they can count on or they contract it out to a firm that will hire the testers for them, thus managing the data collected along the way.
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They won't be testing the same thing everyday thousands of times. It's not like "Ok go free-roam and try to crash the game". They'll have guidelines to follow and I'd say a good amount will be stuck to spreadsheets going over all the text of the game to look for grammar errors.
I know. I've applied for a lot of them thinking they were permanent positions. It's much different than "Beta Testing." You're testing "pre-beta" stuff. (Most likely the new elf pairing content) And you have tasks and responsibilities.
You have no clue. Nice stab at official forums though. Nice one.....
Who said they "couldn't afford" official forums. Whoever did is an idiot. We're talking about EA here. They have plenty of money for Official Forums. It's just not how Mythic prefers to handle things. Let them do it their way.
Well come on Check, I can understand how anyone would be confused with the rediculous way they titled the article."Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Get Paid to Play"
Play: exercise or activity for amusement.
Title should be changed to...
"Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning: Get Paid to Test"
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If I had lived where some of these positions had been offered then I would have applied. Seems like a good way to get into the industry and learn more about the inner workings.
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Indeed, if someone at mmorpg.com came up with this title, it is yet more evidence that they have absolutely no idea what really goes on in the world of game development.
Becoming a QA Tester for a game doesn't get you into the actual development cycle. All the guys I know that have gotten into the industry did it through having the right skill sets, degrees, and lots of hard work. So many people want in the industry that unless you super out shine the 50 others in line for the job your pretty much SOL. This isn't to say its not possible as a Tester to get further into the industry because there are definitly success stories of people that have, but they weren't your average go in and play type testers. They were super well held, object oriented and very very detailed. As in so detailed they can tell you ever step and button press they took in order for certain bugs & crashes to happen. You spend a majority of your time infront of a computer with several other testers and a couple of QA supervisors (management peeps). The chance of you seeing more of the inner workings are slim at best so unless you have backgrounds in something else that can be used in the industry (like design, programming, business management, human resources etc) you'll always just be a tester and a temporary one at that.
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So, these QA guys are like the kids in China who sit at the line at the Duracell 9v production line and stick the batteries to their tongue to make sure the battery is working properly?
It's too bad you have to be local, I would like to work for them, but of course like everyone is saying I agree it's kind've silly for them to pay us to do something everyone would do for free,
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These companies pay 10 bucks an hour to people who basically find out all the bugs that need to be fixed.....then pull in millions of dollars once released. 4 hours? 40 bucks? What can that buy? Carton of smokes and some redbull? If people want their games debugged they should pay at least 20 bucks an hour since they will be racking in tons of money down the line. What a scam.
Well, 40 bucks a day. Thats 200 a week (5 day weeks), and it adds up to a bit as the weeks go by. Its nothing to make a living on, but in my eyes its a awesome way to make $10 a hour.
But I was wondering how many people they will be hiring, and if they will hire just any one who can play a MMORPG. If they advertise it like they did you think that they are trying to get a lot of people to apply for the job.
I know. I've applied for a lot of them thinking they were permanent positions. It's much different than "Beta Testing." You're testing "pre-beta" stuff. (Most likely the new elf pairing content) And you have tasks and responsibilities.
You have no clue. Nice stab at official forums though. Nice one.....
Who said they "couldn't afford" official forums. Whoever did is an idiot. We're talking about EA here. They have plenty of money for Official Forums. It's just not how Mythic prefers to handle things. Let them do it their way.
Well come on Check, I can understand how anyone would be confused with the rediculous way they titled the article."Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Get Paid to Play"
Play: exercise or activity for amusement.
Title should be changed to...
"Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning: Get Paid to Test"
Well that's probably the headline over the job itself. There are lots of jobs like this that actually say "Get paid to play." It's a catch phrase to get people in.I just think it's ludicrous for people to think they're wasting money on testers. Some strange statements.
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Its times like these i wish i still lived in Fairfax Va..... had to move didnt i???
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Just a quick update to this story: The job description was changed yesterday from 4 days a week to 5, Monday to Friday.
Wish I lived in Virginia. Sounds like a nice part time job.
Without question QA is The most grueling, most mind numbing, most spirit crushing tedious position in software dev. Most people can't handle it. They burn out and quit after a couple months.
If i were running a studio and could only hire ONE more person for a project i'd say a good experienced QA person is more valuable than a good experienced programmer or artist or sound guy.