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Explain video game testers job
It seems like they don't even do anything nowadays
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Swarmfly 15 Oct @ 12:33pm 
Video game 'testers' when a certain weapon in the multiplayer mode is broken beyond relief (they'll pledge to make a gentleman's agreement to not tell the developers this so the game will suck when it releases).
trash can 15 Oct @ 12:34pm 
they exist no more
The customers are the 'testers' now.

But it used to be a really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ gig where you'd think "oh boy I get to play games!" but really it's just about testing every menu switch until something breaks, or running into every wall until a character gets stuck, or picking up and dropping every item to see if they use the right models...
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salamander 15 Oct @ 12:42pm 
sit there and play a small segment of a game over and over again trying to break it and purposefully cause glitches so they can be fixed. being a video game "tester" does not seem fun in the slightest tbh
Swarmfly 15 Oct @ 12:44pm 
Originally posted by salamander:
sit there and play a small segment of a game over and over again trying to break it and purposefully cause glitches so they can be fixed. being a video game "tester" does not seem fun in the slightest tbh

Speedrunners say hello.
Originally posted by salamander:
sit there and play a small segment of a game over and over again trying to break it and purposefully cause glitches so they can be fixed. being a video game "tester" does not seem fun in the slightest tbh
Perfect description, i have not done it but i knew someone who was and it sounded horrible lol <3:bluerune::luv:
Originally posted by Swarmfly:
Originally posted by salamander:
sit there and play a small segment of a game over and over again trying to break it and purposefully cause glitches so they can be fixed. being a video game "tester" does not seem fun in the slightest tbh

Speedrunners say hello.

at least speedrunners can take a break from doing that and do other things
"Open Beta"

Companies now get paid by the testers.
I use to get paid 20 an hour to play. Did that for 4 years while working another job. Was like my side job I could do at work. Stopped doing it Got way better career now, they still hiring in Austin tx.
Originally posted by Kweeb:
Explain video game testers job
It seems like they don't even do anything nowadays

Depends in what industry.

For gaming e.g. you do not have video game testers - you have debuggers.

Video game testers are only with opinion industry or child protection.
What a beta tester is supposed to do is essentially assist in locating bugs and improving overall user experience. Course the difference between a debugger and a beta tester is that the former is paid in fiat while the latter is paid in early access. Hell, when it comes to Early Access, you're basically paying to beta test a game.

Which is kind of stupid when you think about it. But then again, so is not owning your games.
They do more than play games. It’s basically a quality check. You play to see if everything runs smoothly and how it’s suppose to. Sometimes you fiddle around with things to see if it breaks the game or not.
Then why do games still release broken?? Video game testers should report bugs and developers should fix them
Originally posted by Kweeb:
Then why do games still release broken?? Video game testers should report bugs and developers should fix them
You’re right. Sometimes players find bugs that the tester weren’t aware of then it gets patched up. The difference is instead of a few hundred testers you have a player base of 1,000,000 depending on how popular you are.
I did it for a while, it was mostly playing the game over and over and looking for ways to break the game, often if it was multiplayer they would make all of us meet in the same place and repeatedly go around certain areas together at the same time, anything we found we wrote a bug report to send over to the QA Managers for that dev studio uwu
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