WTF? There's a reality show for game testers

kaze369

Ok, so I'm browsing through my PSP playstation store and I find this show called "The Tester". It's a reality/contest show about Sony picking a tester for their company. Who thought this would be a good idea?

if only they know that all you have to do is network and send your resume out. All this effort for a job that only pays about 30k.

DrunkShaman

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6xNs0R4lTQ[/ame]

oh wow...now this is the joke of the day.

ZacD

I think it is on its 2nd season too

kaze369

ZacD wrote: »

I think it is on its 2nd season too

it has a season 2? oh lord:D!

Moosey_G

I think they need to tighten up the graphics on level 3.

Jeremy Lindstrom

I dont bleed blood, I bleed pixels!

Autocon

rofl what a dumb, although hilarious looking show.

dont they know that company's hire QA people up by the dozen? at least when I did testing for SCEA for a summer they would hire anyone that had gaming some gaming knowledge and knew how to use a PS2.

they make it seem like some glamor job that is hard to get. they have adds for shit like that posted on craiglist since the turnover/burnout rate is so high.

Ferg

I bet this was initially a joke idea from some random dev that somehow worked its way up the corporate ladder until it got to someone that didnt realize it was a joke

Disco Stu

lol at the tiling in the hundreds of submissions received, its like 8 ^^

kaze369

At least the girl contestants aren't that half bad to look at.

edit: Why would Sony waste so much money and time, especially for the judges, on one person who they're going to pay only about 30k. The people that are judges have much better things to do then watch a bunch of people yell and scream about how much they kick ass at gaming.

They could've at least hired a bunch of hot models to play video games in bikinis.

Snacuum

not to mention the poor company receiving the winner into staff. the winner would have the biggest ego, thinking he's the bees knees of testing.

Autocon

lol so this was just too funny i had to see a little more so I went to the official site and they had like preview/recaps of the episodes. it seems like the only time they even played "tested" a game was on the finally. the rest of the eps look like they are doing MTV style live action challenges such as paint balls.

it seems they didnt do any actual testing like trying to break game play, testing weapons, stress testing, writing up bug reports and all that jazz (i can see why as that would be boring to watch)

Seems like the finally they chose who the best tester was based off who won some mini games the fastest ROFL so ridiculous.

ZacD

I bet their first "job" is going to be trying to break the menu or something else ridiculously lame and boring.

kaze369

Autocon wrote: »

lol so this was just too funny i had to see a little more so I went to the official site and they had like preview/recaps of the episodes. it seems like the only time they even played "tested" a game was on the finally. the rest of the eps look like they are doing MTV style live action challenges such as paint balls.

it seems they didnt do any actual testing like trying to break game play, testing weapons, stress testing, writing up bug reports and all that jazz (i can see why as that would be boring to watch)

Seems like the finally they chose who the best tester was based off who won some mini games the fastest ROFL so ridiculous.

I bet the winner will end up hating the job because they will have to play broken games for 8+ hours straight.

imyj

I like how testing is made out to look really fun, when it really isn't. Unless you're one of the 6 year olds they bring in to a studio to playtest a game

D-Robe

Ahem.

Nysuatro

ow damn

imyj

Haha, amazing!

Matroskin

Moosey_G wrote: »

I think they need to tighten up the graphics on level 3.

ohh, epic reply of the day

lol, its enough just look at those guys and on the host in particular "a comedian, a director, an actor..." hmm he's got lots of "skills" then

kaze369

Matroskin wrote: »

ohh, epic reply of the day

lol, its enough just look at those guys and on the host in particular "a comedian, a director, an actor..." hmm he's got lots of "skills" then

At least the host looks hot.

Calabi

I like how they say they had thousands of entries, and zoom out of the videos and its just twenty tiled really badly.

SnowInChina

calm down guys

its not like it's a documentation
just another fancy looking reality tv show thingy to attract viewers

kaze369

SnowInChina wrote: »

calm down guys

its not like it's a documentation
just another fancy looking reality tv show thingy to attract viewers

What viewers?

ZacD

kaze369 wrote: »

What viewers?

the 1000 people who auditioned.

kaze369

ZacD wrote: »

the 1000 people who auditioned.

You mean the 1000 people who probably won't be getting a job in the industry. Ever.

ZacD

besides the 1 winner? :P

MattQ86

http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/pa-the-series/111/

kaze369

ZacD wrote: »

besides the 1 winner? :P

ok, you got me, one guy got a job.

rolfness

where do I sign up ???

DrunkShaman

^oh...damn!! You are not thinkin of applying to this reality show are you?

[HP]

^Sarcasm spotting fail.

xk0be

When I was a kid I wanted to be a tester so bad. It's kind of amazing how they market the job (they being.. everyone basically)compared to how it really is.

DrunkShaman

[HP] wrote: »

^Sarcasm spotting fail.

How can you tell?

I can never tell if rolfness is being sarcastic in his posts or being serious.

EDIT: I hope hez being sarcastic as well. :poly122:

[HP]

ah ah... Well, I hope he is being sarcastic. :P

rolfness

Nitewalkr wrote: »

How can you tell?

I can never tell if rolfness is being sarcastic in his posts or being serious.

EDIT: I hope hez being sarcastic as well. :poly122:

me sarcastic.. no..

Firebert

rolfness wrote: »

me sarcastic.. no..

never

rolfness

Firebert wrote: »

never

/me nods head slowly and deliberately

fearian

I would love to see a follow up show on whoever won this thing.