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[kab012345]

How would you like to make big bucks testing Video Games for a living?
I think it would be pretty cool to get free games and consoles in the mail, and play them on the couch and then just fill out a simple survey and send it back or take it to a Local Testing Facility..

Edited by kab012345, 21 September 2007 - 12:35 AM.

[dre]

That would be intensely boring, I'd rather work in the game design team instead, where I would make complex bug and gameplay reports rather than saying "Yeah dude sweet game" or the equivalent. But who knows, a lot of people would love to sit in front of the TV/PC all day long.

[GamerGlitch]

Testing Video Games would be amazing. Since I already play video games (Microsoft Xbox 360- Gears of War) so much it would fit into my current life style. Unless the surveyed were really difficult and time taking then the job would be pretty fun and relaxing. However, some one told me, as a I was interested in this career, that the pay was sub par and Game Testing was a dead end job (Once you become a game tester there is no better job with higher pay in the field). However, if I was single, even if the pay wasn't so good I would take the job for the free games, and just the idea of getting paid to play sounds wonderful. I guess it would suck if you had to test a really poorly created game, though.

[delivi]

Man I would work there even without anything.

This is one of my favorite jobs that i would do any thing

Just think about a job where we you get paid just for playing games, usually i get scolded in my home for playing games for several hours.

Just thinking that mother-lick should favor me, that I can land in such a job.

[abminara]

Playing games is totally a waste of time and health. You will soon get close to blind if you stare at the screen for too long. In the end... dude, why don't you consider some real job for yourself?

[arnz]

While it may sound like a 'cool' job. It would be something I would not be sticking around in, especially when it comes to staring at the screen most of the time. Yes, office workers, those in IT may also be staring at a screen as well, but in their cases some of the tasks may be for clients or important tasks (eg deadlines for accounting reports). Getting back to this job here, It may or may not be repetitive, depending if the testing co-ordinators decided to put on different video games in periods, if its on a pattern, or its the same game most of the game, yes it can get a bit 'boring'.

[rayzoredge]

I could probably do it.

I usually am rather nit-picky with games anyway and like to review things for the benefit of others, since I usually read reviews from like-minded gamers to determine whether it's worth the $50 for that new video game or not.

It would be an all-right job, just because of the fact that not every game that you will test will be something you'd be interested in. This is how we come up with "bad" games...

[benzkids]

it would be pretty good but you would really get over it VERY quickly. playing games all day would be VERY boring

[galexcd]

I agree with abminara, and I personally would hate this job. I only play games occasionally when it was a rough day at school or just have to empty my mind, I couldn't stand too much more than that. I think if you want to play games for a living however, there are better ways of doing it rather than being a game tester. If you reviewed games and posted your reviews on a website and it got popular you would probably get more money than being a beta tester. Beta testers as GamerGlitch said, are payed very minimal and theres no real promotion you can get.

All in all this job is for losers who didn't go to college and have no real skills to get a real job and think that games are the reason to live.

[androomidaa]

if something like that comes up, ill just agree to play occasionally. i dont have enough time to waste on that. i have a blog to continue and my plans to work on . so u know theres not much time to play games. id rather start another blog and start playing games and post reviews. if im good at blogging i know im going to get enough buzz with my blog and make some money down the road. i guess thats the better idea.