Sony Planning PS3 Reality Show, Winner Becomes Game Tester

Imagine you are a Sony game tester and some new guy starts working next to you who got the same job by "winning" a reality game show. A job that you got by failing at the game of reality.

then they give you aids

Here, let me sum it up for you:

Shit pay

No respect

Expected to work endless amounts of OT even as a salary employee, your job will be in jeopardy if you miss too much OT

Glass Ceiling 3 inches away at all times, as your seniors are all comfortable in their positions and have no care for bettering themselves. This is Cali after all...

Shit pay, it deserves double duty

Treated like second class citizens. in other words the lowest amount of money possible is put into you and your department. So while other departments get cool perks and such, you get jack shit and crap equipment.

Being constantly told that you are replaceable, i love this one.

You get to go to meetings where the CEO boasts about how much money the company is making and how happy the shareholders are, but yet when it comes to bonus time, your bonus doesn't even cover your rent increase for your crumby apartment, pathetic.

I could go on forever....the above is just a basic bitter tester list, your mileage may vary depending on what crooks you work for.

congratulations! Now get to fucking work!

People always rag on game testing being terrible. I used windows ME for an entire year, so I'm pretty use to thing crashing and having to start over repeatedly. This could be my moment to shine!

i thought we all learned (from our beloved video game magazines, at least thats where i learned it) in our early-teenage gaming years that we don't want to be a game tester because being a game tester isn't actually fun

Once in a lifetime chance! I bet I could get anyone here a game tester job within 3 months if they wanted to move to Seatte (Redmond specifically).

Have fun with your $10/hr!

Coming this fall on FOX: Who Wants to Marry A Homeless Person?

Thats like winning The Price Is Right and getting kicked in the balls.

Testing can be fun if you actually believe in the role of "Quality Assurance."

If you see the job as "play broken game and type stuff into a database" then it's boring.

If you see it as "evaluate a work-in-progress and find ways to make it better" then it's lots of fun.

Even better is having the guts to raise hell on issues you really believe in. Then, not only is it fun, but you are taking personal responsibility for the quality of the game.

Push hard, and be willing to admit it when you're wrong. If that sounds paradoxical, well, it is. Most worthwhile things in life are challenging. :)

Ummm, I AM a game tester - not only is it not really a fun job, but it's not hard to get at all. This is seriously a "WTF" "prize". o_O

You too can win the chance to work long hours for barely-above-minimum-wage pay, deal with poor hygiene from your co-workers, and be treated like peons by all levels of management!


I kid, mostly, but seriously, who the hell came up with this idea? I don't think many people would be interested if they knew what QA actually entails. It's not a bad job by any means, but I certainly wouldn't do a reality show to just to get a spot.

I'd love to go on, win and then when the job offer comes give the middle finger and ride off into the sunset cackling. At least it would make good viewing for you guys.

Could there be a worse prize for a reality show? That's like going on Survivor, putting up with a ton of gross stuff and your annoying fellow contestant (assuming you're not the annoying one!) and then finding out that your prize is that you get to pack up the show and clean-up both team's home-base. Wow. What a GREAT prize.

Lame attempt at PR/Markting, Sony. So. Lame.

Oh, next contest you'll get to clean the toilets! No offense to testers, but lowest point entry level is hardly a prize. Yet another thing wrong with the glorified perception of the game industry,

I just checked out the website. I bet the entry videos would be worth watching for a few laughs.

The sadness videos of failure.

This is why testers don't get paid very much. I call it the Fun Tax- the pay hit everyone in QA takes because all they do is "get paid to play games all day". A big fuck you very much to Sony for perpetuating that.

LMAO. A reality show to win a $9/hr job! I know it's a $9/hr job because I used to work QA @ SCEA, SD and that's what I made.

Anyway, kidding aside, QA is a great way to get into the industry but I wouldn't say it's a "dream-job." More of a means to an end - that end being a career in Design and/or Production.

"Thats like winning The Price Is Right and getting kicked in the balls."

Love it.

Well at least the winner wil test for sony, not for EA. \o/ !

Witch is the worse and explorated job..ok Nike do worse, but ......

This reminds me of an article earlier in the year about dream jobs that would actually suck: http://www.cracked.com/article_17066_6-dream-jobs-that-would-actually-suck.html I'm not saying that play-testing sucks, but there was some interesting info in the article.

We've borne witness to trashing, "upper-class" trash parading around on television and crying... I guess it's about time we get to watch overweight, socially-challenged boys crying about failing Wii fit for a chance at getting the worst job in the gaming industry.

P. T. Barnum is laughing his ass off right now.

Hahaha, previous comments have already stolen what I was thinking.

YOUR PRIZE IS BEING OVERWORKED, UNDER PAID, AND THEN LET GO AFTER 3 MONTHS!!!

I think you could call that a loser instead of a winner.

I mean would you run a contest at a grocery store and then instead of awarding $1000 of groceries you give them a job as a guy who lifts boxes in the back? And at that point you are really helping the people running the contests as you are doing a job.

...producer 51 Minds

So the show will be canceled three episodes in when they find out one of the former contestants went to Vegas and killed his wife?

reward should change to "game producer"

in the following seasons participants will also have the opportunity to gain such prices as a job at
-McDonalds
-your local gas station
-Starbucks

...and many more!



Make your dreamjob come true!

Horrible prize if you actually know what goes into being a game tester, but then reality tv sucks so the prize is actually fitting.

I as a gamer/programmer would never work in a studio.

Worst prize ever, unless you are guaranteed to only test good games when they are nearly finished lol

I can't wait til this spins off a competition to become a barista at Starbucks.