Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Paid Video Game Tester

What If you Could Make up to $120 Dollars Per Hour Testing Video Games From Your Home, Would You Be Interested?

As a Video Game Tester You Will:
Get to Play Video Games
Get Paid to Play Video Games
Get Paid to Play Unreleased Games before anyone else
Get Free copies of Video Games
Get access to cheat codes, level secrets, and other "bugs" that only game testers know about.
Get real-world experience working with company departments and learn about the development, marketing, manufacturing, customer service, and testing phases of each game.

The Deal:
A variable length membership, starting at $39.95.
It takes time to land a job... some companies can take a month or more to reply, so all memberships come with a 6+ month subscription, you get updates for 6-24 months, excellent resources, and lots of other stuff.

This guide will show you the sites to find jobs that pay for game testing; the trail blazing has been done for you, for the membership fee.

Some frequently asked questions:
1. Why would companies pay me to beta test games?
The game industry is now over a $50 billion dollar business. In the case of nationwide companies, producing games that have bugs in them -- games that the customers will return, means losing millions of dollars, and likely jobs.
2. Don't the programmers catch all the glitches?
The answer is NO -- programmers are not necessarily gamers, they won't find all the bugs that a gamer will. If a company pays you $40/hr to play games and find glitches for them that would otherwise ruin the game experience for the user, and possibly hurt their sales, from their perspective it's really a good deal.

3. What kind of games will I beta test?
It will depend on the company, but all these games have been tested before relase:
Crysis
Bioshock
Call of Duty 4
The Witcher
Age of Conan

4. Can I still go to school, or work my 9-5 job, what about Education requirements?
Most testing jobs don't require formal education. You get paid up to $120 per hour. This will depend on your effort, knowledge, and experience. Some jobs are 9-5, while others are test whenever you want; you will apply for the jobs that you like. The only hard requirement is that you need to be 18 years of age or older.

5. Can I test games on the XBOX 360, PS2, PS3, PSP, Nintendo DS, Gameboy, etc?
This will depend on the job that you land. If you only want to test games on the XBOX ONLY then your employment opportunities will obviously be limited. You will apply for jobs that you like and test on whatever system that you wish to test on.

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