Is there anyone doing this ?
I was called few days ago from a big company of video games here to test our their games. I don't know if I should say yes or no.
Anything to say about that?
It's really up to you, and none of us here can really make the decision for you and guarantee that you will be happy with it.
Is this something you want to do for the rest of your life? Think about the future. How lnog will you have to do this job? Is it going to be a full time job, and is this really the road you want to go down for a career?
Assuming that you are around 20, you will have to work for another 40 or 50 years. Do you really want to spend all that time playing games? If you do, then I say go for it. If you are unsure, then it's really a 50 50 deal. You could take up the job, and then a few years later realize it's not what you want to do. But then you have a few years experience in playing games for a living, so that would be a plus, but then you don't want to do it anymore, so you would have wasted your experience time doing something that you won't be doing full time.
It's all about what you want to do.
I personally wouldn't, but this is because I have been addicted to games before when I was younger, and I know what it does to you. Your health can decrease, and there are many health problems you can get by playing games for so long if you get addicted. I eventually sold my gaming consoles, and no longer have interest in games because I know what it did to me, and I am much happier now.
But that may not be the case with you, so it's your decision.
Good luck.
wohh!!
I'm 17 years old, and I do NOT want to spend my life there (except if there would be move up opportunities in the company).
I was asking about the kind of job it is... and not the possibilities it could give.
I wanted to know if someone did that and actually liked his/her experience ?
I personally wouldn't take the opportunity because I do not like playing video games. If I did like playing video games, then I would take the job but would not pursue it as a career. I would take it so that I had an income, but I would leave the second something better comes along. It'd probably be a real low stress job, although you would probably be expected to have some real good critiques.
Being a professional video game tester is obviously great. You get to play the newest video games and you get paid to do so. Honestly, what more could any gamer ask for? However, the big questions is: how much does a video game tester get paid? After all, if the pay isn't any good, why would a person continue in that line of work?
The average video game tester salary can range from 15-20 thousand dollars per year all the way up to 80-100+ thousand per year. How much a game tester makes is directly related to how many jobs he gets as well as what developers hire him. However, since most game testers work on a job by job basis and not on a contractual salary, let's break down the yearly figure into an hourly and a weekly figure.
Game testers are typically paid $8-20 per hour, depending on their level of experience. For this example, let's take the middle ground and go with $15 per hour for a mid-level tester. Game testers tend to put in a lot of hours each week (40 to 50+), which is usually due to a developer's inflexible deadlines. With that being said, let's say the tester works the typically minimum (40 hours) and is paid the aforementioned $15 per hour of testing work. 40 hours x $15 is a weekly paycheck of $600 dollars, assuming the tester were to work that many hours each week. Sounds like a nice paycheck, right? You bet it does, and most gamers would be thrilled to cash a check like that every week.
The big downside to being a video game tester, as mentioned above, is that your career progresses on a per job basis. You won't get a testing job every month, nor will you get one every week. As a matter of fact, it is fairly common to have a long wait in between many of your testing jobs. So, unless you are at the top of your game and tons of game developers know of you, be prepared to wait in line like all the rest. Fortunately for you though, there is a way to increase the amount of job openings that are available to you, and it's known as networking. To read an article about video game tester networking
