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Saechiis
Netherlands4989 Posts
As for your next blog, call it: Peanut's Tips: How to Get Into a Girls' Pants. We need that more. | ||
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Haemonculus
United States6980 Posts
On December 13 2010 17:20 lilsusie wrote: It * DOES * help if you're a cute girl though. My two cents. This is pretty accurate for a lot of things in life, but probably a bit contrary to the OP and her other blogs. Getting free shit/favors vs perhaps not being taken seriously, harassment, etc. It's a pretty complicated conundrum, o.o; | ||
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Trap
United States395 Posts
While networking is essential for almost any field, the marketing and community management experience you write about are not technical positions and you place too much emphasis on it. If you are a high school senior or undergrad who is looking to get into the gaming industry, I strongly suggest you build your specific core skillset and portfolio that shows you will be valuable to employers regardless of who you know or have talked to. Pursue a background in computer science / engineering, animation, art, or film. Generally code developers / animators / artists will have a much more fulfilling role in the final product than the people who test, writes scripts, or post on the message boards. Aim to be in the former group, don't set your sights low by going the game tester route. | ||
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Pyrrhuloxia
United States6700 Posts
right at US launch surprising everyone by making it pay to play and launching with prices ten times that of what it was in the other market. | ||
lilsusie
3861 Posts
On December 14 2010 01:57 Haemonculus wrote: This is pretty accurate for a lot of things in life, but probably a bit contrary to the OP and her other blogs. Getting free shit/favors vs perhaps not being taken seriously, harassment, etc. It's a pretty complicated conundrum, o.o; I just take it the way it is. If I'm getting free things because I'm a girl, then great! I'm not gonna be like "OMG GO AWAY YOU SEXIST!" I'm gonna enjoy the fact that I did absolutely nothing and that an online boy is doting on me. Of course, most of the time I won't announce that I'm female but if they think I am, or find out I am and give me special favors, I am not one to say no. If I'm not taken seriously and/or get harassed, there is always an ignore function. This is the internet, afterall. I'm not gonna be hurt by some nerd at his computer who's putting me down because of my gender. I'm going to do what I do, whether its play games or contribute to the community and haters will be haters regardless of sex. | ||
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Zorkmid
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Zorkmid
4410 Posts
On December 13 2010 17:20 lilsusie wrote: It * DOES * help if you're a cute girl though. My two cents. Is that how you got that floating kirby style avatar thingy?? | ||
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Thrill
2599 Posts
1. It looks very good for the company to even out the m/f ratio. Middle management and HR often (successfully) use statistics of how many females they've hired as grounds for promotion. 2. Females in the teams don't get called out on shit. I've seen testers who two weeks into the job ask a male colleague 'how to submit a bug' or something equal, after which the male tester who've submitted XX or XXX bugs already painstakingly walks her through it. Attractiveness doesn't matter - if she's hot it's because she's hot, if she's not it's because it would be discriminatory to determine who to help based on looks. Now - before you respond to this you should know that i actually think this is something positive. I want it to be this way until we see a healthier ratio after which we can all behave normal. It's necessary and beneficial for everyone. Denying that gender is the single most important advantage you can currently have in the gaming business though, would be untruthful. | ||
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Chairman Ray
United States11903 Posts
On December 15 2010 01:13 Thrill wrote: I've worked for a major games publicist (one of the 'big five') managing testers and localization testers. I can tell everyone for a certain fact that being female in this business is an advantage of such proportions that 'extreme' would be an understatement. 1. It looks very good for the company to even out the m/f ratio. Middle management and HR often (successfully) use statistics of how many females they've hired as grounds for promotion. 2. Females in the teams don't get called out on shit. I've seen testers who two weeks into the job ask a male colleague 'how to submit a bug' or something equal, after which the male tester who've submitted XX or XXX bugs already painstakingly walks her through it. Attractiveness doesn't matter - if she's hot it's because she's hot, if she's not it's because it would be discriminatory to determine who to help based on looks. Now - before you respond to this you should know that i actually think this is something positive. I want it to be this way until we see a healthier ratio after which we can all behave normal. It's necessary and beneficial for everyone. Denying that gender is the single most important advantage you can currently have in the gaming business though, would be untruthful. Well, time for me to get a gender change | ||
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ICCup.Tesla
United States841 Posts
On December 14 2010 19:10 lilsusie wrote: I just take it the way it is. If I'm getting free things because I'm a girl, then great! I'm not gonna be like "OMG GO AWAY YOU SEXIST!" I'm gonna enjoy the fact that I did absolutely nothing and that an online boy is doting on me. Of course, most of the time I won't announce that I'm female but if they think I am, or find out I am and give me special favors, I am not one to say no. If I'm not taken seriously and/or get harassed, there is always an ignore function. This is the internet, afterall. I'm not gonna be hurt by some nerd at his computer who's putting me down because of my gender. I'm going to do what I do, whether its play games or contribute to the community and haters will be haters regardless of sex. o.O You really wouldn't say no? Like ever if some weird guy was trying to offer you something like a gift? I think you are one of the bravest of all of us female players/casters then. I know haters hate regardless of gender but does it ever both you, Susie, when guys think that we cant keep up with them just cause we are female? Or like when they assume that we are bad compared to them? Sorry, I'm just curious. Thanks if you have time to respond. | ||
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Zorkmid
4410 Posts
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Afmug
58 Posts
On December 13 2010 18:27 ZlaSHeR wrote: Damn, you worked at gala? I used to play flyff, and still own one of the top characters in my server that tneds to mvp every week. Gala is such a greedy, awful, closed minded, ridiculous company. They listen and ignore feedback, they hired (for flyff) GM's and CM's that didn't know a thing about the game, and were quite corrupt, as I've been around several stories having to do with people who bribed their ways out of bans. Flyff was awful, I hope that the game you worked with wasn't as bad as the GM's and CM's that I was around in that game. Because they genuinely made gala look awful, and the game devs too, everything about gpotato was awful lol. No shittin dude, I played that shitty fucking game for five years and by the end of it I was so mad at Gala-Net I simply quit the game. They banned people for account sharing but since these players spent about 1000$ per month in the cash shop they unbanned them. I read an article right before the latest version came out where Cromiell himself said that they were working on the new version which actually had already been developed in Korea several months before. They are stupid people that does not understand what life is about. They are corrupt indeed, Lexilicious was the bost worthless CM I have ever seen.I am so sick and fucking tired of that game and I will never play it seriously ever again. What server did you play on by the way :3? I used to be on Lawolf. | ||
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geometryb
United States1249 Posts
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Hidden_MotiveS
Canada2562 Posts
. . ^ I'd consider a job in gaming. Sounds fun... unfortunately I think that this probably makes the industry too competitive for me to get in. | ||
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