QA or game tester

[Pina_TheGovernor]

Hey guys!

 

We all share the same passion right? Videogames. However I would like to know your opinion on being a gamer tester or work on QA.

 

Would it ruin our love for this industry? Or would be the best of both worlds?

 

Let me know what you think

[Ruliya]

From what I know, and it's not that much, you test a certain section of a game over and over, and your main thing is to try and break it, so they can find and fix bugs.

 

Would likely kill my enjoyment of games.

 

Though again, I'm no expert and maybe I'm wrong, still. I'd rather play lots of games than the same a lot.

[A little fluffy cat]

It would be fun I guess to find glitches and so.

I love finding glitches so no it wouln'd ruin my enjoyment

Edited August 31, 2016 by Official-ME-

[Pina_TheGovernor]

From what I know, and it's not that much, you test a certain section of a game over and over, and your main thing is to try and break it, so they can find and fix bugs.

 

Would likely kill my enjoyment of games.

 

Though again, I'm no expert and maybe I'm wrong, still. I'd rather play lots of games than the same a lot.

 

Yeah, I agree with you. I think it's not as "fun" as we think.

It would be fun I guess to find glitches and so.

I love finding glitches so no it wouln'd ruin my enjoyment

 

But as Ruliya said, imagine playing the same section over and over again... 

[A little fluffy cat]

 

But as Ruliya said, imagine playing the same section over and over again...

You must love your job, if you not like that you can always be casual gamer

[hore]

I lack the patience, and the job(s) lack a decent payout.

 

But if one of you does become a QA tester, do us all a favour and make sure all the trophies are achievable. 

[Dr_Mayus]

It is pretty much this

 

If you like gaming I would recommend being a rep instead. While most people just organize shelves and put up signage, I decided to use my time better and make it a job where I got to run a bunch of demos and set up huge displays. Here is some of the stuff I got to do ..

 

Edited August 31, 2016 by Dr_Mayus

[Cobby]

It would suck harder than a prostitute. You don't play the games, you just fuck about tryna break shit, boring 

 

[Satoshi Ookami]

I don't particularly want to destroy my health, so... no, I wouldn't want to be a game tester.

 

QA, huh... well, probably healthier than game tester in terms of physical health but handling all the complains from idiots would kill my mental health.

[Zenpai]

I once was a QA for a game company and loved every second, so yeah, I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

[DEMON]

It ruins it. I'm qualified to be either of those as they are entry level jobs into the industry (bit higher than reviewer/journalist). Personally after doing what got me these qualifications, I can safely say I'm not interested in it anymore. It is literally doing nothing but the same thing over and over until you find bugs (or not); then you have to write detailed documents on what you found and explain the bug; if it happened each time, happened every other time, etc. It's something like a 60 hour per week job and since it is entry level to the industry, it's not that well paid for what it is.

People seem to assume game testing (QA is really not that different), is some fun thing where you get to play games that are no where near releasing for anyone else, only to notice you'll be stuck interacting with a NPC all day and just waiting for them to start glitching on you.

Overall, if you want some entry level job into the industry, get good at writing and become a reviewer or journalist; both of those won't put you off gaming like these would.