Hello all, I am new one here and I am full of questions. Hope to get along. I am new to this kind of stuff so I would really appreciate your help. I registered to this game testing page week ago and I am making about 30 dollars per day, so I am not really happy about it. So the questions are: Is anyone from this forum a member on that site? (Link below) If so is there a way to earn a bit more, like say 50 dollars a day or more with this job? If not can you recommend any other jobs similar to this? Thank you Edit: Link removed to minimize spam.
If this is spam -- and it seems like it is -- this is a new tack to me, "the undersell". If you're doing some thing through some random website, it's pretty much sure BS. Don't waste your time. And don't spam our site. If you're testing a game you should be paid a wage like a 'real job'. And, for the hopeful kids out there, it's only ever going to about as fun as any 'real job'. And any games industry jobs are kinda like other jobs ... but they pay a bunch less because everyone thinks they're "fun". Sometimes they are.
Also, for having tested quite a lot of games, you probably won't have much fun with them or want to play them once you're done testing them. But this is probably spam.
I was never a game tester, but I did write reviews years ago for a small regional magazine. A small publisher sent me a game to review that was just about everything that I hated in games. I could not play it. It was this really highly detailed slow-moving historical WWII simulation computer wargame. I mean, if there were paperclips, you'd have to know how many and judiciously dole them out to your underlings -- i'm exaggerating, but it was the most detailed WWII wargame I've ever seen. Had I been a games tester, and not a writer, I could not have said no to that. I only spent about a half hour or so with that game and it was shear torture. I could not imagine being a tester for it. /edit and keep in mind, this was for a FINISHED game, not a beta. It hadn't been released to the public yet, mind you, but it was not a beta.
lol,there are barely any jobs that are both fun and pay well,thats why its called a JOB and not a carnival funfare just suck it up and get a real education in some hard and in demand field,oh its gonna suck,you will get insomnia and you will be celibate for a few years. being a game tester i imagine is a lot like being a gynecologist,sounds good in theory but the reality is much more ugly. how do you think the beta testers for big rigs or bubsy 3D felt?
Anything in life that sounds too good to be true, nearly always is. If you are lucky, you find something that really is work, but that you are good at, so it doesn't feel as much like work as it might have. And if you are REALLY lucky, you may actually enjoy it. Unfortunately, that doesn't always happen. But if a job llke that exists, odds are you won't find it without an education. Go to school, figure out what it is that you are good at. If it's not something that people will pay you a living wage to do, then that's a hobby, not a career.
In fact, it's most likely to be less fun than a "real" job. Most people who try being beta-testers are kids who just want to keep on playing games, while beta-testing them is anything but that. They need to emulate obscure situations to make sure that nothing would break the game stupidly, and they have to pay attention to everything but the flow of the game itself. It's like wanting to be a chef and being sent to bring three tonnes of onions from the town 30 miles away without using any means of transport other than just walking and carrying the stuff with your hands; not very fun, as you can guess. Of course, sometime a potential beta-tester will luck out and the game will happen to have no bugs (in which case it's only being beta-tested for the remote possibility of something being there but it really works as intended) nor any game-breaking things, in which case it is just like playing the game. It happens very rarely, though, because the very fact that multiple people work on the code often causes stupid things to happen because of a minor change (of which there are plenty during beta-phase). And no, I never was paid a beta-tester, if it's something you want to ask (though I was beta-testing a few freeware games which were still in development when I got them, by virtue of just filling out bug reports or feature requests when weird things were happening or when I thought something would be a good addition to the game); I did have a group of people beta-testing things for me in the past, though (well, not for me but for the person who hired me then, but since I was the one responsible for the making sure the thing worked, the difference was a purely semantic one).
Beta testing isn't beta testing because devs are like "Oh let's pay some random dude like 30 bucks per hour to play our game", it's beta testing because devs think "If this script DOESN'T have any bugs then Russia is a democratic country. Wow what? These- these morons ask 30 bucks per hour to test my game? Sweet jesus, let's hire 40 of them right away!". If playtesters want to do it for free, you're even more blessed. That means you don't have to screw around, wasting your time trying to improve your code yourself, others will give you all the obvious bugs on a list and you can work it down without having to stress about anything.