Maybe somebody got more clue on that than me?
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Luginsland
Germany5 Posts
Maybe somebody got more clue on that than me? | ||
Zambrah
United States6831 Posts
There's QA but if you check the ATVI thread here you'll note they often aren't treated with much respect, sadly. Honestly there's enough to do with gaming that you'd need to get maybe more specific, if you don't want to program do you want to do art? QA testing? | ||
oEkY
Germany641 Posts
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Harris1st
Germany6123 Posts
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Luginsland
Germany5 Posts
thanks for showing up some options. I was checking on this QA (now I know it is Quality Assurance), and searched the net a bit, out of curiosity. I didn't know they even pay people for testing games I even found some jobs for native speakers of other European languages. I will have a closer look into this. Maybe this German mother tongue allows me to play games all day long and get paid for it So thanks for the tip! | ||
iPlaY.NettleS
Australia4251 Posts
Maybe there is work doing translations. | ||
Luginsland
Germany5 Posts
No wonder they are looking for native speakers. Still sounding very interesting and looks like there is quiet some business done, since they are looking for more than 20 languages at the moment. | ||
BlueStar
Bulgaria1152 Posts
If you don't have real expertise - try looking for basic QA testing or Support functions e.g. call centers If you are into arts - any aspect of the design - character, branding, also as a support for marketing If you are into dev - developer and other engineering functions as well If you are into marketing - marketing, community management, PR If you are into sales - sales but this one in the Gaming is mostly cold calls, not such a good opportunity P.S. QA in Gaming is one of the worst jobs you can be looking for in the IT - I know plenty of people who have done this. It can be good as a starting point tho but not for more than several months. | ||
Luginsland
Germany5 Posts
I read an article about game testing and that it is by far not 'playing games' all day long. However e.g. Language/Linguistic QA seems to be a different work to do, if I understood correct. | ||
BlueStar
Bulgaria1152 Posts
On July 26 2019 22:37 Luginsland wrote: @Blue Star: Did you do QA on your own already? For what I found out until now, there is quiet a big variety in QA jobs, so I am wondering what part of QA you are talking about. I read an article about game testing and that it is by far not 'playing games' all day long. However e.g. Language/Linguistic QA seems to be a different work to do, if I understood correct. No, I haven't - my field is marketing and community management and my current job is not gaming but b2b middleware. I know many people who worked as QAs in the gaming industry - Bulgaria is something like the European India for the IT sector - just with better programmers :D (at least most of the people know what they are doing). QA can be intriguing but in the gaming industry, most of the tests are manual. For example: - imagine you have to pre alfa test Doom - go to X level - now bump all day in this particular wall and document if you notice bugs - job done - next day - bump in the next wall and document your findings ... This is mostly how QA is handled in the Gaming industry. If you are QA automation engineer - it's a completely different thing but there probably aren't many such people in the Gaming. My source of information is coming from people who worked in small and big studios (e.g. Ubisoft, Gameloft). I doubt the level of "professionalism" is different in other studios. | ||
BlueStar
Bulgaria1152 Posts
QAs don't have a clue how to phrase words and create a universe of words - at least not by their work description. It's Quality Assurance - if QAs do work with text and wording - the level of professionalism in the company is really low and I would not advise anyone to go there. | ||
goiflin
Canada1217 Posts
As for functionality testing (which is what I did), it was bearable depending on the contract I worked on. Some titles were very fun to test, some were quite monotonous with developers who were frustrating to work with. The people I worked with were absolute lads/lasses though. Met tons of great people working there. It's worth doing if you want an entry level job and you don't have much qualifications, and plus, the investment is minimal so if you don't like it, quitting isn't very painful. | ||
Luginsland
Germany5 Posts
Since nowadays everything is outsourced, I assume the linguistic QA is also such a thing that even big studios outsource nowadays. This at least would explain the high amount of job offers I saw in lower salary countries like Poland or as you said Bulgaria. If goiflin is right, I can still be glad about, if I get the job at this testronic company. Since these countries are cheap, a salary from an international company can still be paying off. | ||
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